Student Idea competition-India

 Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India has established ‘MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC)’ to systematically foster the culture of Innovation amongst all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The primary mandate of MIC is to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform them into prototypes while they are informative years. Outcome of Smart India Hackathon 2019:

34 Themes

806 ideas

565 for government agencies

241 for Industry.

Check the Idea description and team details: https://www.mic.gov.in/micoutcome

Pepsico seeks technologies for `(agriculture) Waste to Worth'

To increase the sustainability and energy efficiency of food processing, PepsiCo is interested in opportunities for extracting value from all food manufacturing by-products. Currently, this material is typically dehydrated and sold as low cost animal feed. PepsiCo is interested in alternative uses for by-products such as potato peels and starch, oat hulls, corn bran, coconut husks, and fruit peel.

Two categories of suggestions are of interest:

• Processing methods to transform or extract higher value products that could be used by PepsiCo within their own processing operations or sold as food or feed ingredients (e.g. ferulic acid from corn bran, powdered orange peel)
• Companies interested in these materials for further processing

Suggestions of interest will include:

1. A description of the processing technology and equipment required
2. An estimation of the volume of material that can be processed per year
3. Manufacturers with interest in extracting or purchasing higher value products from specific by-products
4. An indication of the market size and value for the ingredient or feedstock

Source:IdeaConnection

A client is looking for genetically modified (GM) Indica Bt rice events that can be commercialized in India and offers $2,000 award for providing lead on such partner

A Client of Idea Connection  is looking for genetically modified (GM) Indica Bt rice events that can be commercialized in India. Pests such as rice stem borers and rice leaf folders cause considerable crop losses in India. Widespread cultivation of corn that has been genetically engineered to produce insecticidal proteins isolated from Bacillus thurigiensisi> (Bt) has reduced crop losses and increased crop yields in North America. The client would like to identify GM Bt Indica rice events that are stably expressed in Indica rice background and offer season-long resistance to rice stem borers.

$2,000 Award

For identifying a company that has one or more GM rice events and interested in licensing/partnering/commercializing these events in India. The GM event must meet all the following criteria:

1. One or more Bt genes in the construct;
2. Stable and season-long resistance to rice stem borers.
   (Resistance to yellow stem borer and India rice leaf folder would be a plus);
3. Sufficient efficacy based on bioassay data. The target insect survival rate should be no more than 8% during in vitro feed experiments. qRT-PCR and ELISA data must be provided as additional support for bioassay data;
4. Constitutive promoter is preferred. However, tissue specific promoters will be considered as well if sufficient efficacy is achieved in leaf, sheath and stem,
5. Freedom to operate;
6. No negative impact on yield or other agronomic parameters;
7. Adequate information to demonstrate product safety;
8. Expressed in Indica rice background, and
9. Single copy insertion that is stably inherited and expressed,

The Innovations for Everyone contest

VW and Natgeo bring this competition. Volkswagon will reward each of 3 winners with a cheque of Rs 3 lakhs. Films of 3 initial winners will be showed on National Geographic Channel and viewers will vote for the best. The final winner will take home Volkswagon car.

last date: 18th October 2010.

URL: http://www.innovationsforeveryone.com/Home.aspx

India Future of Change

In a world that is fast globalizing and is supercharged with information, it calls for innovative efforts on behalf of the change leaders to look, sound and feel different. ‘India – Future of Change’ is one such effort that seeks to emphasize India’s position as a catalyst of change.

The three-year India Future of Change Contest Series is a multi-disciplinary contest series across schools in India and Overseas.

The purpose will be an exchange of ideas about emerging India’s present perception and future plan of action. It will be, apart from an academic exercise, a livecwire discussion between the youth and established professionals from the field . Knowledge Partners include Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) – Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A), Industrial Design Centre (IDC) IIT - Bombay supported by the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
URL: http://www.indiafutureofchange.com/contests.htm

TRI Grand Challenge for India

TRI selected 10 challenges and invites `ideas'. The challenges are  :

1. making rural health care thro medicine affordable and accessible.

2.Improve the usefulness of maternal healthcare thro portable diagnostics and smart system.

Read on :http://www.technologyreview.in/files/44813/TRI%20Grand%20Challenges.pdf

Wagon R Smart Idea competition

Wagon R Smart Idea competition received 337 ideas. View and vote for the best.
URL:http://www.wagonrsmartideas.com/index.php?option=com_members&Itemid=27
Last date 25th December

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

Inventors of Tomorrow Competition

Intel and Times of India are organising this idea competition. Idea should be unique and capture the personal vision of applicant about how technology can help enable a better tomorrow for all. Winner gets an all expenses paid (for two) trip to California. last date 5th July 2009.