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12 October

Once again: spotted an Innovation on road – eco chulha

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While driving to Vadodara from ahmedabad, saw a vehicle with “eco-chulha” written on the back glass. Curious to know more, we waived to that car to stop. Ashwin Bhai, a non resident Gujarati entrepreneur owning many...

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12 October

Global Companies Must Create Global Innovation Public Goods

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When international companies aspire for global presence and sometimes even domination, they don’t do so only in market place. They try to do so in social space too. Why do then most Indian companies not have...

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25 September

busy as a bee: an article on Honey Bee Network, 2010, June SPAN

Written by anilg

Busy as a Bee By VAIDEHI IYER May/June 2010 All over the world, there are people with problems and innovators with solutions. The Honey Bee Network connects some of them to help make their dreams come...

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19 September

Innovations by Women : Why are They so Obscure

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In my recent book on Grassroots Innovations ( 2016, http://www.amazon.in/Grassroots-Innovation-Minds-Margin-Marginal/dp/8184005873) I describe this dilemma and I quote: “The role of women in grassroots innovations has thus remained rather obscure. The number of innovations by women has also...

Shared spaces: enriched culture, community and civic life

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With increasing pressure on urban and rural spaces, there is a looming crisis ahead of us in the next few decades. How will we negotiate scarcity of physical spaces with our cultural, emotional and spiritual spaces...

Rural start-ups: making a policy and institutional highway

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I inaugurated the GIC unit set up by Subhash ola, a Presidential Grassroots Innovation Award winner of NIF at Behror, midway, Delhi-Jaipur highway. He invented a very cost and energy efficient way of recycling steam to...

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26 August

Why is hunger for innovation so low in Indian polity?

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While reflecting on innovation ecosystem for national transformation a few days ago at an apex industrial association forum, I had to ask the industry representatives as to why were they so complacent in seeking ideas from outside? Many...

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15 August

Disrupting Dalit Destinies Through Inclusive Innovation

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The history of injustice with Dalit communities has not always subdued their spirit. There are many instances when some of them have come out of low self-image, low self-deprecating belief systems and decided to break out...

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