Science and Innovation
Frugal engineering – Indian Firms Shift Focus to the Poor
This kind of innovation can serve all Bottom of the Pyramid markets. In Latin America about 25% percent of the people (130 or so million) live on less than $2 a day. WSJ.com
India’s many engineers, whose best-known role is to help Western companies expand or cut costs, are now turning their attention to the purchasing [...]
Indian engineers develop air-powered motorcycle
This is science-fiction brought to life.3 News NZ
A group of Indian engineering students has invented a unique pollution free bike which runs on air pressure and does not emit carbon into the atmosphere.
Where normal motorbikes use an engine powered by petrol, this runs on air.
The Air Bike, as it’s called, carries two large tanks of [...]
Global firms draw on India for ideas
livemint
Today, as the economic slowdown shrinks demand in mature markets, some of the world’s largest companies are drawing on inputs provided by their Indian talent and running critical functions from their Indian units. They are devising future strategy, creating blueprints for marketing campaigns, building brands and new businesses from India-based centres that are more tuned [...]
India: Toward High-End Outsourcing
Vivek Wadhwa writing in BusinessWeek
Indian outsourcing industry has entered a new era of growth. Infosys (INFY), Satyam (SAY), HCL, and other IT outsourcing majors that once specialized in lower-value tasks such as application maintenance and business process outsourcing are seeing increasing success in providing outsourced high-value tasks such as total IT outsourcing, R&D, and business [...]
Indian projects win ‘Green Oscars’
Financial Express :
Two Indian enterprises have won top prizes at this year’s prestigious Ashden Awards for sustainable energy, popularly known as the ‘Green Oscars’.
A Kerala-based company BIOTECH, involved in tackling the problem of dumped food waste, won the Ashden award carrying a monetary prize of 30,000 pounds while a Karnataka firm SELCO Solar Light [...]
In food crisis, Mexican valley offers lessons
The Associated Press:
Even here in Mexico, in this vibrant wheat belt crisscrossed by tractors and crop dusters, farmers are in a daily struggle. Climate change is blamed for more frequent droughts, hotter temperatures and the spread of new plant diseases. The cost of fertilizers has tripled, and their overuse has depleted soils, spewed more [...]
Offshoring R&D services to India on the upswing
The Hindu Business Line
Research and Development offshoring to India by international IT players, a $9.35 billion industry, is estimated to touch $21.4 billion by 2012.
Mr Pari Natarajan, Chief Executive Officer, Zinnov Management Consulting, said that currently there are 594 R&D centres in India operating in SPD (software product development), embedded services and engineering services.
Bangalore, [...]
Hollywood studios to use Indian patented technology
Business Standard
Hollywood is all set to use Indian technology for the first time. An erstwhile incubatee at the Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), has been approached by prominent Hollywood production houses for his patented technology, which finds its application in the current film technology and also [...]
Can India’s Dairy Revolution be Repeated in Africa?
World Bank – News & Broadcast
During a period of 25 years (1970-1996), a unique program, popularly known as Operation Flood, transformed a chronically milk-deficient India into the largest producer of milk and milk products in the world.
Can this phenomenal turnaround-which has since become the stuff of legend-happen elsewhere? When can the experience in one [...]
Health Care Innovation in India
Strategy and Business
[M]ore than 490 million people (about 70 percent of the Indian population) live in rural and semi-urban areas. They are difficult to reach, especially in a country where doctors are scarce (the ratio of physicians to total population is less than one per 100,000 people, compared with about one per 160 in the [...]
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