Spark Awards

Kiran solar lamp is one of the award winners. Details at:

http://www.sparkawards.com/Galleries/09_Winners.htm

China's design awards 2009

See the designs at:
http://www.designsuccess.cn/en/list.aspx?season=2009&page=1

Augtics- real estate informatics company

AUGTICS is a management and technology consulting company providing “real estate information solution” and “real estate information-based consulting” to diverse set of consumers and clients. It aims to fill gap for professional consultancy in residential sector and brings out reports like Delhi NCR top 25 reidential projects. Promoted by Manoj Misra, a product of IIT, Roorkee with extensive experience in GIS.

Modified `Siddhataila' process from Dr Shantaram Kane

Dr Shataram Kane, Adjunct Professor, IIT, Mumbai and mentor to many innovators/ start-ups in Pune has developed a low cost process for extracting oils from vegetables/ herbs. The cooking is done in ordinary cooking pots and the filtration is simply through 2 layers of cloth stretched over a strainer.These oil extracts are found to be super activei.e reduce the daily dose of the natural product by a factor of 100 to 1000 compared to that commercially available concentrate. The initial results appear promising for treatment of Gas, constipation,Cough, Cold, insuling dose reduction etc

Want to test or learn? contact Dr Shantaram Kane at: sgkane@gmail.com

Villgro presents INNOHUB-The Innovation Fair for business partnerships with 20 Innovators on 11-12 Dec 2009 in CHENNAI

INNOHUB (part of a larger event UNCONVENTION – “Where path breakers meet path makers”) will be conducting it’s first event on 11^th & 12^th December 2009 at Hotel Green Park, CHENNAI whereby 20 of the most promising Innovators ranging from inspired individuals such as Aggi Magudeshwaran who has developed a patented technology for Non Electric Reverse Osmosis System for Water Purification to glorious institutes such as IIT Kharagpur will showcase their products & technologies and discuss business partnerships with Entrepreneurs & Investors through scheduled face to face meetings.

The details of all the products & technologies to be showcased at INNOHUB is available on www.villgro.org/innohub and you could register online for free for participating in INNOHUB and scheduling face to face meetings with specific Innovators of your interest to discuss business partnerships or SMS “Villgro Innohub” on 54999 for more details.

Villgro also extends financial support of upto Rs.25 lac as Interest Free; Success based Loan as also incubation support through technology / product development and market development to Entrepreneurs.

In case of additional details or a specific request get in touch with Rajeev Surana on

91-9381755790 or innohub@villgro.org

Freedom to Perform in Government- case of TePP

I worked in Government for 19 years and an equivalant period in commercial firms before that- in small scale firm, in Tata firm and in Public Sector Undertaking. Is the popular impression that nothing (new/ significant) can be done in government correct? Read my personal account in this PPT:
http://www.slideshare.net/indiainvents/freedom-to-perform-in-government-case-of-tepp

CircuitSutra

CircuitSutra a start-up incubated at Amity Innovation Incubator, focuses on IC/SoC Design Companies, Embedded Product Companies, and EDA tool companies with core competence System C modelling. Founder Umesh Sisodia worked in SCL, Cadence etc.

Bi Box from start up evobi

Bi-Box is a small box with an Electronic Brain which can be connected to various electronic devices or toys and instructed to behave the way you want it to. It is supported under TePP. This start-up figures among the ten promising Indian companies by Global Thought.

Pruthvi- Universal TV demodulator IC based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) architecture

Saankhya Labs, a fabless chip startup based in Bangalore, has announced its Universal TV demodulator IC based on Software Defined Radio (SDR) architecture, and targeted at World TV and PC-TV receiver markets. Built on an ASSP (application specific signal processor) platform, the product named Pruthvi - is made up of programmable DSPs, and is the first demodulation IC to enable Global TV Chassis, the company claimed. The product prototype that supports all standards on a FPGA platform is ready and has been demonstrated to 6 major TV companies in Japan. Read more : EETimes.com
The founders, Viswa Kayagadde and Parag Naik worked at Philips Research lab and promoted Vayavya labs in 2006.

Shaping the Future- Semi Finalists

For schedule of Semi finals in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai and also list of semi finalists see:

http://specials.msn.co.in/sp09/shapingyourfuture/semifinalists.asp

Inolyst

inolyst is a young start-up, based in Bangalore, offering a package of Innovation management, IP advisory and IP licensing services to Indian firms. The comprehensive package includes, establishment of processes from `Idea generation' to`Revenue realisation'. Client firms will receive training in identifying opportunities for R&D/ product positioning after assessing IP and Business portfolio of competitors. IP acquisition is seen as integral part of R&D.

Biopreneurs:TheMolecular Millionaires

Want to be a Biopreneur- entrepreneur in Biobusiness? Read the guide from Dr Ryan Baidya. Apart from covering stages of innovation the book also covers fund raising, valuation, marketing and PR +IR (Public Relations and Investor Relations. All explained in simple text by a practitioner with insights.

Inventions for sale from Inventor Nagla

Prof Nagla, Dr Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, offers following innovations for transfer:
Patent No. 210090: Mechanism to clean the bird dropping in cage type poultry farm: The invention is related to automatic removal of bird droppings (garbage) under the cage structure of poultry farm. It is very simple to construct and affordable in cost. More important there is no need to alter the previous design of poultry farm for its installation. The said invention is useful to reduce manual labor charges (approximately 2000US$/ annum/shed) for cleaning and also useful to reduce diseases like bird flu.
Visit Stall no C-24 of NITJ at International Exhibition Clean India PULIRE-09, from November 12-14,2009 at Bombay Exhibition Center Mumbai, INDIA