TATA NEN Hottest Startups Awards

TATA has joined with NEN to bring these Awards, with support from Major Partners Helion, Seedfund, Mint and Wadhwani Foundation.Eligibility for start-up:

• A registered business (not an idea or plan)
• Headquartered in India
• 5 years or younger (founded in 2003 or after)
• Independent business - not subdivision

The nomination open on August 27 and closes on October 22 and nomination are invited from public. For details:
http://www.hotteststartups.in/jsp/coolest_startups/about_hottest_startups.jsp#Competition

DSIR invites proposals for National awards in R&D

The Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR) had instituted National Awards for outstanding R&D achievements of Indian Industry in the year 1988. These awards, in the form of shields, are presented along with citations at the Inaugural Session of the ‘Annual National Conference on in-house R&D Efforts in Industry’. During the past 20 years, 171 such R&D awards have been presented by DSIR.
For National awards 2008, applications are invited in 6 categories:

• Physical & Biological sciences
• Electronics & ICT based industries
• Engineering Industries
• Clean Energy & Climate change
• Award for successful commercialisation of technology
• Best Invention Award

Application proforma can be downloaded from http://www.dsir.gov.in/
Contact person: KVSP Rao, K V S P

For a wider view of Indian R&D system, read Raj Mitra's paper `India's emergence as a global R&D center'.

Technology Day awards 2008

Dr APJ Kalam gave away Technology day awards on 11th May 2008. TDB gave 3 awards, National award for Natco Pharma ltd, awards to SSI units went to Lifecare Innovations Pvt ltd, and Prime Telesystems ltd, Delhi.Hyderabad-based Natco Pharma Limited was conferred the National Award for developing and commercialising five innovative anti-cancer drugs.Lifecare Innovations Pvt. Ltd. received the national award for commercialising highly economic formulation for treatment of systemic mycosis and Kala Azar.Prime Telesystems Limited, Delhi received the award for developing and commercialising the High Definition Video over Subscriber Line standard and supporting technology stack for the delivery of interactive video over emerging cable, telephony and internet networks. DBT gave award to Dr Banwarilal of TERI for developing Microbial enhanced oil recovery .
Click to read inspiring speech given by Dr Kalam.

INFOSYS prize for mathematics

Infosys Technologies Limited (Infosys) and the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore announce the establishment of a new prize in mathematics: the INFOSYS Prize for Mathematics.

The prize will be awarded to a person who has made outstanding contributions — fundamental or applied — in any field of mathematics including in the areas of pure mathematics, mathematical foundations of computer science and applied mathematics in natural, life and social sciences.The prize will consist of a cash prize of one million Indian rupees (US$25,000) and a medal.

Last date -April 30, 2008

World Food prize 2008

Nominations are now being taken for the $250,000 World Food Prize. Any individual is eligible whose breakthrough innovations in science, policy, or leadership have significantly improved the quality, quantity, or availability of food globally. The deadline is April 1, 2008.
URL: http://www.worldfoodprize.org/nominate/nominate.htm

International Honor for Young Indian Scientists

Scopus® announced the Second Young Indian Scientist Awards which were awarded at an event held at “Le Meridian” in New Delhi on December 7. The award instituted by the parent company Elsevier has selected nine recipients from areas such as Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Environment and Engineering in order to cover both basic and applied disciplines.
The winners are:
Dr. Bakhtisaran Raman - Biological Sciences
Dr. Anil Kumar - Chemistry
Dr. S K Satheesh - Earth Sciences
Dr. Sanjay Mittal - Engineering Sciences
Dr. Dinesh Mohan - Environmental Sciences
Dr. Upadrastha Ramamurthy - Material Sciences
Dr. Nimish A Shah - Mathematics
Dr. Sushil Kumar Jha- Medicine
Dr. Vinod Kumar Aswal - Physics

Ananth Technologies

Ananth technologies receives DSIR in-house R&D award Electronics for development of 12 Channel rotary telemetry system for Gas Turbine.Dr. Subba Rao Pavuluri, M.D has been awarded the prestigious "BHASKARA" award for the year 1999. This award was in recognition of Dr. Rao's significant and unique contribution to the Remote Sensing programme by the Indian Society of Remote Sensing (ISRS) in recognising Dr Rao's significant efforts. This was followed by another award for "Excellence in Electronics R & D and for the outstanding Performance for the year 2001-02" by Ministry of Communication & Information Technology, New Delhi.

Disruptive Business contest

Disruptive Capital Partners has announced they are hosting a contest with $50,000 total ($25,000 Grand Prize and $25,000 in other prizes) in award money to find the companies with the best disruptive investment value. Entrants must write a 5-page paper describing why a company is disruptive, and why it would be a good investment overall using the models of disruptive innovation as described by Clayton Christensen and others. More information can be found on the Disruptive Capital Partners website.

AVENUES-07- Udgam

Shailesh J Mehta School of Management IIT Bombay brings

" Udgam-The Consulting Challenge" in association

with Confederation of Indian Industry-Young Indians (CII-Yi)

Udgam is a competition where you have an opportunity to act as a business

consultant & suggest a business development strategy for innovative, real

& uncommercialized products with social relevance.Three Product case studies have been launched together. Participants have to choose any one of them & send an executive summary of the business strategy by October 10th,2007

National Award for Excellence in Water Management

CII – Godrej GBC is organizing the “National Award for Excellence in Water Management” on 29 & 30 November 2007 at Chennai.The objective of the Award Scheme is to recognize and Award “Excellence” in Water Management in industries ‘within the fence and beyond fence’ and facilitate sharing of information by excellent water efficient companies.

Contact:

sukanya.sundar@ciionline.org
Confederation of Indian Industry
CII- Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
Survey No 64, Kothaguda Cross Roads R R Dist, Hyderabad-500032,
Ph: 040-23112971-73 Extn 226 Fax: 040-23112837

Theodore Von Karman award

The International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) has selected Rajya Sabha member and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman K. Kasturirangan for the prestigious Theodore Von Karman award for this year.The award will be presented to Kasturirangan, one of the country's top scientists, here Monday on the first-day of the 58th International Astronautical Congress.The Theodore Von Karman award is the highest distinction of the IAA given annually to recognise outstanding lifetime achievements in any branch of science.The award, instituted in 1987 in the memory of the legendary Theodore Von Karman, aerospace scientist and founder-president of IAA, is being given to Kasturirangan for his contribution to the Indian space programme, including the development of launch vehicles and satellite technology, applications in remote-sensing, communications and education that have benefited the society.

source:IndiaPRwire

Bhatnagar prize 2007

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) on Wednesday announced the winners of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar prizes for outstanding contributions in various disciplines of science. The 11 scientists selected are : Narayanaswamy Srinivasan and Pundi Narasimhan Rangarajan of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Rama Govindarajan of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore; B.V. Rajarama Bhat of Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore; Budaraju Srinivasa Murthy of IIT, Chennai; A. Ajayaghosh of National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram; Anil Bhardwaj of Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram; Upinder Singh Bhalla of National Centre for Biological Sciences, Kanpur; Amalendu Chandra of IIT, Kanpur; Yashwant Gupta of National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune; and Pinaki Majumdar of Harish Chandra Research Institute, Allahabad.
source:Hindu

Kavli Prizes for scientists

The Kavli Prize is a partnership between the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and the Kavli Foundation. The Kavli Prizes will be presented in 2008 for "outstanding contributions" to the fields of astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience. Mr Kavli was born in Norway but later moved to the US to set up the Kavlico Corporation, which became one of the world's biggest suppliers of sensors for the aeronautic and automotive industries.

INDEX awards 2007

On August 24, 2007 the winning designs in the five INDEX: categories received the world's biggest design award of 100 000 € each.

A life-saving device called the Tongue Sucker, a low-cost prosthetic foot and a high-speed Tesla Roadster electric sports car were among the winners of the prestigious INDEX awards, a 100,000-euro prize for design ideas. The aptly named Tongue Sucker is an inexpensive first-aid device designed to save lives that lets even untrained bystanders at the scene of an accident quickly re-open airways of unconscious victims before professional help arrives. The idea sprang from the fact that critical minutes are sometimes lost before medics arrive. Four young designers from Imperial College and the Royal College of Art in London devised the Tongue Sucker after the 2005 London suicide bombing attacks. If you dont open the airway before the paramedics arrive there is no point in them arriving anyway, Graeme Davies, one of the inventors, told Reuters after winning the award under patronage of the crown prince of Denmark. The device is a disposable small plastic chamber with a red rubber bulb-like air reservoir squeezed onto the tongue of the victim and then released. The suction draws the tongue off the back of the throat, creating a small but vital gap to allow the person to breathe. It is inexpensive to manufacture.
INDEX prizes, the worlds most lucrative design awards, are picked every two years for five categories: body, home, work, play and community. Each winner gets 100,000 euros

RED HERRING 100 ASIA

Some of the Indian firms that made to the list are:
Adiance Technologies Pvt Ltd, Automotive Exchange Private Limited,
CashTech Solutions India Ltd, Cat Computer Services Pvt Ltd
Communicate 2, CorEdge Networks India Pvt Ltd
Cosmic Circuits, Cross-Tab Marketing Services Pvt Ltd
FXLabs Studios Pvt Ltd, Gameshastra Solutions P Ltd
GI Terminal i-Tech Pte Ltd, Gisil Designs Pvt Ltd
GlobalLogic India Pvt Ltd, Hurix Systems Pvt Ltd
Bharat Biotech International Limited, iXiGO.com
iYogi Technical Services Pvt Ltd, Manthan Systems
MeritTrac Services Private Limited, Metrica Systems Pvt Ltd
Mindlogicx Infotech Ltd, Mistral Software Pvt Ltd
NetAlter Software Limited, OnMobile Asia Pacific Pvt Ltd
Paladion Networks Pvt Ltd, PayMate India Pvt. Ltd
pepper square software services pvt ltd, plaNETsurf Creations Pvt Ltd
Proteans Software, Regalix, SatNav Technologies Pvt. Ltd
Skenzo.com (Monetization Software Pvt Ltd, SM Onyomo Infotech Pvt Ltd
Telibrahma Convergent Communications Pvt Ltd, VJIVE Networks
WeP Peripherals Ltd, Worldviewer Dot Com India Private Ltd
Zycus

Global Indus Technovators Award 2007

Indian Business Club @ MIT is hosting a yearly award ceremony - Global Indus technovators award, with the objective to felicitate young innovators (under the age of 40) of indus origin. The nominations for the same are open until 16 August 2007. Details can be found at

http://technovators.mit.edu.

Contact: 
Karthik Venkataraman,
Co-director,
Indian Business Club, MIT
vkarthik@MIT.EDU

Bala Krishnamurthy-Robotics expert

The robotic industry’s premier honor, the Engelberger Robotics Awards, were presented to four leaders at the 38th International Symposium on Robotics, June 13, during the International Robots & Vision Show in Rosemont (Chicago), Illinois. One of the awardees is Bala Krishnamurthy and she is the first female recipient of an Engelberger Robotics Award.For over 25 years, Bala Krishnamurthy has been designing and developing a wide range of software in programming languages, networked systems, and related technologies which have contributed to the growth of robotics. In 1997 Krishnamurthy founded Aeolean Inc., a company specializing in the design of custom software solutions for high-tech applications, and serves the company as CEO.

ISA- VSI Technovation Awards

ISA, in association with the VLSI Society of India (VSI) invites proposal for Technovation Awards:
ISA TechnoVisionary: Life time achievement award given to a global Indian or Person of Indian Origin (PIO) for their outstanding contributions in the field of semiconductors.
ISA-VSI TechnoMentor of the year award is given to an academic professional working in India for their mentoring and research.
ISA-VSI TechnoShield is a rolling shield for the best academic Institution in India for its remarkable work in semiconductor space.
See details.

ISA-VSI TechnoInventor of the year award given to young investigators recognizing outstanding Doctorate or Master research from Indian universities.

BioAsia Innovation Award for Young Scientists

BioAsia Innovation Award was introduced for the first time in BioAsia 2007 through Federation of Asian Biotech Associations (FABA) to promote Innovation among the young Scientists below the age of 35. The “BioAsia Innovation Award for Young Scientists (2007)”, was awarded to Dr. Madhusudan Reddy Nandineni’s proposal on “A Microbial Process for L-Arginine Production”.

2007 EE Times ACE Awards Winners

2007 EE Times ACE Awards Winners announced. Start-up of the year award goes to Ruckus wireless for pioneering broadcast quality multimedia to homes over Wi-Fi . Innovators of the year is Wan-Thai Hsu of Discera. Dr. Hsu is one of the pioneer researchers and inventors in the area of silicon and metal resonators. Part of his doctoral work led to the birth of Discera Inc. in 2001.