A colonial legacy has been continued for over six decades and it seems will continue for some more time unless the NDA government decides to redefine what constitutes work. There could not be a bigger tragedy to consider more than 250 million…
There is a very welcome upsurge of entrepreneurial interest among the young people in the recent years. Several initiatives from universities, state and central governments and private sector have been taken to smoothen the journey from mind to market. There is a worldwide interest in the concept of frugal innovation which I proposed in early…
Sustaining Frugal green innovations: a new paradigm of empathetic and evocative ecosystem Frugality is not just about affordability. Even I had not stressed enough about circularity (that is, cradle to cradle approach of not developing a waste oriented economy) in my earlier talks and writings. It has of course been a core issue in the…
there are several problems with these policies: a) unless we decide to invest in student ideas when they are still students, that is, they r in their colleges and not when they join incubators, we will miss a lot of good ideas, b) in situ incubation is the future, off site residential incubator framework is…
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 in existing companies which were engaged in innovative products and services for serving poor people. No doubt, the poor…