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16 September

Online Doctoral course: Institution Building September 16, 2013 begins at 2.30pm ist today

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FPM Course: 2013, Term II-III Institution Building for Sustainable Development Course Instructor – Prof. Anil K. Gupta (Wing 13, Extension Number – 4927) Introduction With the passage of time, the organizations have to renew their mandate,...

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25 August

The ship of theseus: Aesthetics of alienation

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Aesthetics of alienation Recently when the film Ship of Theseus drew full house, the philosophical root of the question behind its story somehow did not get discussed enough in society. Anand Gandhi has dared to ask some very fundamental issues about life, its transitivity, its...

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25 August

why should start-ups based on innovations by youth suffer so much in the decade of innovation

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why should start-ups suffer so much in decade of innovation During last two years, despite umpteen rounds of discussion, it was realized that the new India Inclusive Innovation Fund ( IIIF) would only invest...

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22 August

Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation Award 2013

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Anjani Mashelkar Inclusive Innovation AwardAnjani Mashelkar, Dr R.A. Mashelkar´s mother, brought him up facing all the odds that a poor widowed uneducated mother moving to Mumbai with her only child – a six year old boy...

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22 July

Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down

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Circular economy is booming when ‘take, make, faink’ is slowing down This is for the first time in the history of industrial economic development, green business ( blue economy) which looks at both biological and...

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21 July

Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project

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Who is an authentic professional: responsibility of a professional in a public project intervention Recently while debating the design, location, and erection of flyover, a leading architect who had designed the new campus of...

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20 July

how to make urgent as important: Ways of Knowing, Feeling and Doing

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A paradox of modern times is that as our awareness about new knowledge is increasing, our ability to develop a feel for the problems around us is decreasing. It seems we are getting immunised by an ever expanding exposure and...

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01 July

low cost innovations

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First Published: Mon, Jul 01 2013. 11 41 PM IST MINT Natubhai, from Gujarat, has been trying to develop a machine to pick cotton from dryland varieties of the crop for more than 10 years. To...