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Nicole Perlroth EVERYTHING VENTURED This post is part of an ambitious project at Forbes Magazine to crowd source the cover of our January issue with “Names You Need To Know in 2011. Click here to submit...

Laying the foundation:  Education for innovation   Large scale reforms are currently being tried in the educational sector.  Despite the current decade being a ‘decade of innovation’, nothing much seems to be happening to rethink the school curriculum...

IGNITE ’10:  Unleashing the power of creative young Indian While editing Young Indian during 1919-1932, Gandhi addressed many problems of nation building.   But, he obviously could not anticipate how creative young Indians could be in the independent India.   National...

GNITE 10 Awards Upto Class 8 Award Name Class School District State Title Summary I Aditya Parashar 7 Tagore Vidya Mandir Hoshangabad MP Viberator based overtake alarm, light sensitive TV remote; transport vehicle with rotatory luggage...

From Tianjin to cancun: failure of climate change conference but innovators can still help On Saturday,  the host country China expressed disappointment with the attitude of the developed nations who seemed to be backtracking on the commitments...

Laitkynsew village is home of the living root bridges across the monsoon-fed river. The local Khasi and Jaintia people have managed to somehow train the secondary roots of trees to travel across the river and then...

Machine for Picking dryland cotton in standing crop: Nattubhai’s saga The story of Natthubhai, a thirty nine year old, passionate farmer pursuing his dream of developing a tractor drawn mobile cotton picking machine is a story...

Water, wisdom and wars: when hunger stalks, anger is not far behind When several parts of the world are facing flood, talking about drought may seem queer.  But the fact is that millions of hectares and people...

dissent, disagreement and diversity: agenda for national innovation council   It was very gratifying that in the first formal meeting of NIC held  recently in Planning Commission, diverse opinions were expressed about how to take forward the...

 http://www.ethiopianreview.com/business/30501 Grassroots innovation swirls at Nairobi’s Maker Faire GEreports.com | September 8th, 2010 at 8:53 am | All around the world, Maker Faires bring out an array of inventors, tinkerers and hidden geniuses. Africa recently held its second one...