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  • Sandy Riedel
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    Re^9: What will it take to develop killer technological innovations in India?
    Hello Everyone,

    Chip and Dan Heath described the curse of knowledge nicely in their 2007 book Made to Stick (highly recommended to all innovators). The basic problem: people who have deep knowledge about a topic sometimes assume other people have that same knowledge. That can lead to major missteps.

    Link: http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/anthony/2009/07/how_knowled...

    Cheers,
    Sandy Riedel
    • 26 Jul 2009, 12:13 pm
  • Sandy Riedel
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    Re^10: What will it take to develop killer technological innovations in India?
    Hello Everyone,

    ....If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem. --J. Krishnamurti

    Getting ordinary plastic bags to rot away like banana peels would be an environmental dream come true. After all, we produce 500 billion a year worldwide and they take up to 1,000 years to decompose. They take up space in landfills, litter our streets and parks, pollute the oceans and kill the animals that eat them. Now a Waterloo teenager has found a way to make plastic bags degrade faster -- in three months, he figures.

    Daniel Burd's project won the top prize at the Canada-Wide Science Fair in Ottawa. He came back with a long list of awards, including a $10,000 prize, a $20,000 scholarship, and recognition that he has found a practical way to help the environment.

    Daniel, a 16-year-old Grade 11 student at Waterloo Collegiate Institute, got the idea for his project from everyday life."Almost every week I have to do chores and when I open the closet door, I have this avalanche of plastic bags falling on top of me," he said. "One day, I got tired of it and I wanted to know what other people are doing with these plastic bags."The answer: not much. So he decided to do something himself.

    He knew plastic does eventually degrade, and figured microorganisms must be behind it. His goal was to isolate the microorganisms that can break down plastic -- not an easy task because they don't exist in high numbers in nature.

    Read more: http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=3788

    Cheers,
    Sandy Riedel
    • 05 Aug 2009, 1:20 pm
  • Sandy Riedel
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    Re^11: What will it take to develop killer technological innovations in India?
    Hello Everyone,

    Interesting report from McKinsey and it states Asia has strengths that promise to make it a leading center of technological innovation in the 21st century.

    To become a world-class center of technological innovation, a society must have three basic elements:
    • drive—a culture that supports change and hungers for it
    • human capital—the personal abilities that make world-class technology possible
    • a capacity for mobilization—a society’s ability to pursue ambitious new goals

    These basic elements are more fundamental than any current performance metric or economic trend, and they are durable

    Link: http://whatmatters.mckinseydigital.com/innovation/asia-and-t...

    Cheers,
    Sandy Riedel
    • 07 Aug 2009, 10:53 pm
  • Sandy Riedel
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    Re^12: What will it take to develop killer technological innovations in India?
    Hello Everyone,

    Shri Prithviraj Chavan, Minister of Science and Technology & Earth Sciences, Govt. of India, felicitated the winners of India Innovation Pioneers Challenge 2009 at a ceremony held at Taj Palace Hotel, in the presence of Dr. T. Ramasami, Secretary Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Dr. Praveen Vishakantaiah, President, Intel Technology, India.

    The top three teams under Scholar Sparks category received cash award of Rs Three lakhs (First prize), Rs. One lakh (Second prize) and Rs. Fifty thousand (Third prize) respectively. Besides this, two teams recognized as “Honorable Mentions” from the jury received a cash award of Rs. Twenty five thousand each. For the Champion of Champions Category, the jury recommended only second prize & third prizes. Also the top two teams from the Scholar Sparks category will be representing India at the Intel-University of California, Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge 2009.

    The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Intel and the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) have partnered to launch the Technology Entrepreneurship Program, as a public-private initiative with the aim to foster an ecosystem that encourages innovation and creativity to boost entrepreneurial spirit in Indian academia and scientific enterprises by adopting some of the best practices. Growth of entrepreneurial talent, developing innovative business people with cross-disciplinary skills, technical expertise and the ability to seize market opportunities in India are the moot objectives of this program.

    In an effort to identify and promote budding “technopreneurs” with innovative ideas, DST, Intel and IUSSTF, jointly conducted the India Innovation Pioneers Challenge (IIPC) competition 2009. The technology business plan competition provides a unique opportunity to emerging entrepreneurs at a very early stage of their career to explore and share ideas and gain insight for commercializing their venture through a hand holding process involving recognition through cash awards coupled with mentoring and networking support.

    Link: http://www.yourstory.in/news/1072-latest-news/2522-award-cer...

    Cheers,
    Sandy Riedel
    • 11 Sep 2009, 01:50 am