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Thursday, November 26, 2009

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 11th & 12th 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

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

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

Saturday, November 21, 2009

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.

Friday, November 13, 2009

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.

Sunday, November 08, 2009

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

Friday, November 06, 2009

TiE Shree Shakti awards

The TiE Stree Shakti (TSS) Workshop and Awards is a forum for women entrepreneurs to create trust-based partnerships through active networking. The objective of TSS is to create a platform of belonging for women entrepreneurs. The TiE Stree Shakti Workshops and Awards are scheduled on 12Dec 2009,Mumbai. For more details: www.TiESTreeShakti.org

Winners of GE Edison Challenge.

The winners announced on 6th are:`Graminavitas' from IIT Chennai. Team members Kaushik Anand, Midhun Salim, Srinath Ramakrusshnan, Aswin Ramesh and Aditya Harit. Integrated Project involves Dehusking , gassification of husk, micro-grid and sanitaion. Ruuners up are team Energy Boosters, Venkatewara College of Engineering,Chennai, team members Netrah, Neha and Rahul Jain. Project is on Algae (Spirogyra) production using toxic waste from textile industry.Employees choice was team Tojoe from PSG College. Team Adithiya, Aravind, Ram Prasadh, Somasundaram and Vishwanath. Ptoejct- Solar pond.

Monday, November 02, 2009

Idea Bounty


Idea Bounty is a social think tank that provides a secure channel for the world wide creative community to offer solutions to creative briefs. A reward or 'Bounty' is offered for the Idea that best answers the brief and the contributor of the Winning Idea gets the cash.

Insights from GE research


Gopichand Katragadda, in his book `SMASH' talks of hand to mind barrier. Many analysts referred to our aversion to dirty hands leaving us a nation of million spectators always struggling to find 11 to soil in the field. Bright engineers for decades shunned shop floor jobs and reserachers lived in ivory tower unconnected to market. Gopichand also ( probably for the first time from any MNC) shares his insights on what makes GE and MNC R&D units such a productive places. The activities highlighted:

1. GECR-B Signature Programs: The idea is to have a branding and instill pride in the programs being worked by the team.

2.Learning Environment: A culture of learning and growth is maintained through technology specific and industry specific conferences organised by JFWTC.

3.Innovation Department: A constant focus on innovation is maintained through a variety of activities such as Business program Manager Challengers, innovation workshops by external experts, innovation process sharing with external companies, TRIZ training, tools, pilot projects, internal technical career path trainimng on innovation, innovation portal and idea management systems.

4.Customer connectivity: The indian session T (T for technology) held in 2006 broght together close to 100 GE customers and GE engineering, research, sales and marketing teams.

5. Cross JFWTC collaboration

A must read for all CSIR scientists.

Sunday, November 01, 2009

Luna Ergonomics-clever texting

Can U send SMS by pressing only a single key?
Luna Ergonomics Pvt Ltd is based out of JSS Science and Technology Entrepreneurs Park at Noida. The startup is founded by Major Abhijit Bhattacharjee, an electronics engineer and a keen technologist, a former Signaller from the Indian Army. They have developed the Panini Keypad which supports composition and sending of SMS in 11 major languages of India. And offers SMS compression for the first time in the world increasing the payload of a SMS in an Indian language by over 300 percent. Luna Ergonomics also developed the first dictionary less statistical predictive texting technology which uses a dynamic allocation of keys and hence does not rely on printed keys on the keypad. This offers the possibility of supporting multiple languages on the same keypad. Also this is single key press typing. This technology called CleverTexting has also been developed for all the major languages of the world including Arabic and Hebrew.

Nokia Developers Conference 2009

The conference is scheduled on 7th Decemeber in Bangalore. Regisration fee Rs 750/- For details : http://www.nokiadevcon.in/index.php

GE Edison Challenge finalists


Eighteen teams were selected for GE Edison Challenge final. The winner with prize money of Rs 5 lakhs will be selected on 5th November. See the finalists at:

Nebula Eclipse Goggles

Innovator Sujata Daka, left ISRO to start on a journey of creativity and Nabula Eclipse Google is the first among the innovative products on the roll out. It is a solar filter film with five seperate layers for 100% eye safety and an extraordinarily beautiful 'Cooling and Healing ORANGE image of the sun'. Buy one for Rs 25/-

Friday, October 30, 2009

Hybrid Renewable energy solutions

Green Field Power Services is specialising in offering hybrid solutions, grid connected and grid independent. For details see: www.greenfieldspower.com

Development projects supported by World bank

See projects in Development Market place, funded by World Bank.

Technology in stage performance


Stage performnace has gone high tech. Read the story of Magic Flute, Ring cycle, Brain Opera, Doctor Atomic and rake's progress at Fast Company.

FLAP Messenger Bag


One of the green technology product creating wave of excitement is Messenger bag with solar charged light called FLAP ( Flexible Light and Power). It is collaborative effort of Timbuk2, Poptech and Portable Light

Noble Energy Solar Technologies


NEST is manufacturer of Solar lanterns. Flagship product Aishwarya received Ashden Award in 2005. Promotor Barki is has been in solar photovoltaics business for last 22 years, a B.Tech graduate in Electronics Engineering (1982), from KREC (Now NIT), Surathkal. Powered by a solar panel which generates four hours of light, the lantern is designed to replace the potentially deadly kerosene lamp. Dharmappa Barki at the age of nine witnessed the tragic death of his baby cousin from burns caused by a fallen kerosene lamp and vowed to find a solution- he did find one.

Samuchit Enviro-Tech


Samuchit Enviro-Tech Pvt limited a commercial associate of Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) for commercialising energy technologies developed by ARTI.The products being marketed by SET address the problem of indoor air pollution. Long term exposure to indoor air pollution has an adverse health impact on women and children in rural households. According to World Health Organisation, indoor air pollution caused by smoke from traditional cook stoves is responsible for 2,000,000 premature deaths every year among women and children in the developing world.

Thursday, October 29, 2009

TePP Innovator SS Dutta gets first prize in India Innovation Initiative 2009

Results of India Innovation Initiative 2009 results were announced on 27th October 2009. the winner is Sankha subhra Dutta of Japaiguri, who with TePP support is developing light duty variable displacement compressor for small car airconditioining . Indian Patent Application No: 613/KOL/2009 dated 13/04/2009.

Saturday, October 24, 2009

iWizards

Wipro Technologies and Knowledge@Wharton have teamed up to conduct a global "Innovation Tournament" which will solicit, judge and select the most innovative managerial "tools" that companies can use to improve their business by increasing revenues, reducing expenditures and improving customer experience. Participants will submit tools via this website in one of the following formats: Word document, PowerPoint presentation, PDF file or Excel spreadsheet. These submissions will be reviewed and judged by a panel of experts determined by the Wharton School and including key members of the Wharton faculty, the Knowledge@Wharton team and the Wipro Council for Industry Research. From these submissions, 25 leading tools will be chosen based on the judging criteria. All entries must be received by November 6, 2009, in order to be considered.

Thursday, October 22, 2009

LogicBase

LogikBase is a resource to aid the commercialization of innovation.

LogikBase acts as an internet-based system to facilitate research of technology transfer interactions among government, industry and academic communities. The system provides a central location where individuals and organizations can quickly access and search licensable technologies and technology transfer related news. Information from the following Organizations is available:

Research Foundation of SUNY
Live Cargo, Inc.
Auburn University
University of Miami
Brigham Young University, Technology Transfer Office
Columbia University Science and Technology Ventures
Clemson University Office of Technology Transfer
Brown Technology Partnerships
M.I.T. Technology Licensing Office
Dartmouth Technology Transfer Office
Oregon State University Office of Technology Transfer
Northeastern University Division of Technology Transfer
Temple University Office of Technology Transfer
Office of Technology Alliances, University of California, Irvine
UCSF (University of California, San Francisco) Office of Technology Management
University of Arkansas - Fayetteville, Office of Technology Licensing
Texas A&M Technology Commercialization Center
The University of Edinburgh
University of Dundee
University of California - Santa Barbara
WORLDiscoveries
Yeda R&D Ltd @ The Weizmann Institute of Science
Zaycor Industries Corp
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Friday, October 09, 2009

Student who takes admission in Physics overlooking admission to MBBS finally gets Noble Prize

These days when attracting bright students to Science has been a challenge bothering policy makers, this is good news. Venkatraman, who got Noble Prize in Chemistry dumped admission to Medical college for BSc in Physics and his parents did not force him to change the decision. Read interviews at Rediff

Ambicales


Ambicales is a start-up promted by Sudhir Manchanda and Mayank Agarwal, of IIT Roorkee. Service offerings:
Biomass energy: To replace oil consumption in thermal applications and power generation in industries. Wind energy: Help in making an informed decision to choose the best project from among the various options from different companies. Solar energy: Power plants (both PV and Steam route) and Industrial applications. Energy Efficiency: Expertise in thermal processes and waste heat recovery solutions. Carbon Strategy: Carbon Footprinting, Mitigation measures and leveraging the Green Brand.

Villgro Fellowship

Villgro Fellowship a 10-month programme designed to equip individuals who dare to follow their dreams and can help build a prosperous rural India. Fellows will Know through experience the innovation and social enterprise sectors, Be skilled in successfully mentoring an innovator, Know how to enable innovations effectively,Understand rural markets ,Develop your social entrepreneurship capabilities etc. Last year fellow David Schafran worked with Desi Crew, Gautam Mazumdar with IR Guard, Meera Seshadri with Infant warmer etc. This year th eintake could be about 5. Last date: 20th October 2009. Apply with 500 word summery to
fellowshipatvillgrodotorg or contact Associate-HR Villgro (Earlier Rural Innovations Network)1st Floor, 20/6 Lakshmipuram 2nd St,Lloyds Road, Royapettah Chennai 600 014 India

Dare to Try program from Tata's

Economic Times covered this unusual celebration of creativity - by talking about failures, again an initiative pioneered by Tata's. In 2007, Tata Group Innovation Forum (TGIF) experimented by adding a very unusual category of recognitions called “Dare to Try” in its groupwide Tata Innovista program. Under this category , company managers and teams are encouraged to send in entries for innovations that were attempted, but which failed to get to the marketplace for one reason or another. Entries are reviewed by peer managers in ten regional rounds that are organised all over the world and the ‘finalists’ are reviewed by an external jury in Mumbai.
Read the full story: Economic Times

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

MIT's DESHPANDE CENTER ANNOUNCES FALL 2009 RESEARCH GRANTS

The fall 2009 grant recipients are: MEMS for Large Area and Flexible Applications : Vladimir Bulovic A flexible paper thin micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) array that can be used for sensing and actuation over large surfaces. Device for Treatment of Cerebral Edema : Michael Cima A drug delivery device to treat brain edema with reduced systemic side-effects typical of conventional treatments.Stable Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Light Emitting Diodes : Karen Gleason Long-lived LEDs on flexible substrates providing energy efficient portable displays. (Renewal from Fall 2008 grant round.) A Novel Device for Label-free Cell Rolling Separation : Rohit Karnik and Jeffrey KarpA device for separating cells that could be used for the monitoring and diagnosis of a wide variety of diseases. A Wearable Sensor for Continuous Glucose Monitoring for Diabetics : Michael Strano A carbon nanotube based, minimally invasive, tissue implantable, glucose sensor. The sensor will allow continuous glucose monitoring for diabetes patients, resulting in improved glucose regulation and better health. Chemical Production of Functionalized Graphene for Enhanced Composite Materials : Timothy Swager The development of a chemical process to produce graphene at a very reasonable cost, leading to the industrial use of new composite materials. Nano-engineered Surfaces for Ultra High Power Density Thermal Management : Kripa Varanasi Heat needs to be removed rapidly from high power electronics or the semiconductors will fail. This project will develop a system to very rapidly dissipate large amount of heat from such devices.New Antibiotic Target : Graham WalkerA project to attempt to isolate lead compounds to develop a new antibiotic.

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

Schneider Electric Innovation Challenge 2009

Innovation Challenge 2009 closes by October 21st. List of topics:
Power monitoring system for a house
Constructive re-use of waste energy
Intelligent Sensors
Efficient electrical distribution
Power consumption by computers connected on a network.
For details : http://www.schneider-electric.co.in/sites/india/en/group/ic/contest.page

Sunday, October 04, 2009

Eclipse open source foundation

Eclipse is an open source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an open source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services.
The Eclipse Project was originally created by IBM in November 2001 and supported by a consortium of software vendors. The Eclipse Foundation was created in January 2004 as an independent not-for-profit corporation to act as the steward of the Eclipse community.

Patent Lens


Patent Lens is a worldwide, open-access, free full-text patent informatics resource. It serves as the cyberinfrastructure platform for the Initiative for Open Innovation. Some interesting features:
Search technology now independent of language; Chinese (中文) PCTs now fully text-searchable. Search for lapsed, abandoned or expired US Patents. Visualize Patent Families with new graphical trees as PDFs. Patent Landscapes on Influenza Genes, Rice Genome and Adjuvants now online. Protein & DNA Sequence searching of over 77 million sequences from worldwide patent collections.
This initiative is from Cambia, founded by Richard Jefforson, Molecular Biologist at FAO.


Dubzer


Dubzer works in sync with customers existing website and allows them to choose the content that should be modified, define the translation process at a webpage level, and publish all updates on demand. The founding team ( Anjali Gupta, Santosh Dawara )has in its past introduced innovative award-winning products in the Web and Natural Languages domain. These include products such as Lipikaar (www.lipikaar.com) a patented content creation product that has been used by over 25,000 content writers in 18 languages. Lipikaar won the Manthan Award South Asia 2008 for it’s simplicity and mass-appeal, and was featured by the Times of India, DNA, and CNBC TV18.

Capillary Technologies


Capillary Technologies , Bangalore based start-up ,is an end to end CRM solution provider currently serving 400 stores in more than 75 cities across the length and breadth of country.Products include card less loyalty program in touch.

Thursday, September 24, 2009

BIOSYM 2009

BIOSYM 2009 , The Symposium on Life Sciences and Technology provides a forum for the researchers from academia and industry to discuss and present the latest technological advances and results. BIOSYM 2009 will be held during 27– 28th of November 2009 at the National Science Seminar Complex, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. There will be an exhibition in concurrence to the symposium showcasing the best of Instrumentation/Equipment for Life Sciences fraternity. contact:
P.M. RavinderProject CoordinatorBiosym 2009 Secretariat
C/o Winmedia Communications Pvt. Ltd.,120,G-Floor, Cunningham Road, Bangalore 560052
+91 80 2234 2611 +91 80 2234 2612
+91 80 2234 2613
+91 90360 36022
pmr@biosym.
www.biosym.in

International Entrepreneurship Challenge

Entrepreneurship cell, Faculty of Management Studies, IIT Mumbai is launching International Entrepreneurship Challenge on 25th of Sept 2009. Watch out:
http://www.ecell-fms.org/

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

nano satellites

ISRO succesfully lunched OceansatII - designed to identify new fishing regions in the oceans, as well as four other tiny CubeSats: two German , one Turkish and one from Switzerland.
We can expect more and more student designed nano satellites with Cubesat standard and kits

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

2009 Global clean tech 100 list

The Guardian and Cleantech Group, annouced the Global Cleantech 100 – the first ever list of this scale highlighting the most promising private clean technology companies around the world. See the list:
http://cleantech.com/news/awards/globalcleantech100

Friday, September 18, 2009

villgro Innohub

Villgro Innohub invites innovators ( max 30) to participate in this unique event in Chennai, where they will get an opportunity to meet potential business partners and investors. Agriculture, energy,water are the 3 sectors. Villgro (formerly known as Rural Innovation Network) is working to provide planned face to face interaction between innovators and their potential partners in such a way to maximize the chances of a business deal.
Last date for application:21st October 2009. event date: 11th &12th December 2009.
contact: Rajeev Surana, 9381755790(M)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Benchmarking IT competitiveness 2009

The report from Economist Intelligence Unit on global ranking of nations competitiveness places India at 44 of 66 nations. India does not figure in top 20 in any category other than Human Capital. As expected India scores 2nd lowest on IT infrastructure, a shade better than Bangladesh. Can be seen as opportunity area for investors due to low penetration of broadband / internet. Also known but generally ignored is our limited strength in R&D-India's 2nd lowest score is on R&D environment.
Any suggestions on improving our ranking in this critical area?

Global water challenge competition

Winners announced for this competition organised by Ashoka's change makers and Global water challenge on innovative approaches to providing access to safe drinking water and sanitation.
details :http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/node/1828/finalists

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Foundation for MSME clusters


The Foundation for MSME Clusters was conceptualised to contribute towards the process of cluster based development of MSMEs and thus enhance their competitiveness, generate sustainable employment and alleviate poverty. At the suggestion of the Ministry of Small Scale Industries, Government of India, the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) conceptualised and initiated the process of creating the Foundation for MSME Clusters. Subsequently, the Foundation was legally constituted as a non-government, non-profit registered trust under the auspices of the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDI), Ahmedabad, in the year 2005.

The institute has been awarded a project by DST to develop sustainable model for Innovation clusters. Under Phase-2, proposals are invited from entrepreneurs, academic and research institutes.
Details: http://innovationclusters.org/proposals.html

Innovation for India awards 2010

Marico Innovation Foundation (www.maricoinnovationfoundation.org) will hold its 3rd edition of the Innovation for India Awards to be held on 12th March 2010 in Mumbai. Any Indian company, social organization, government body and/or individuals who have successfully conceptualized and nurtured a brilliant idea, made it work and brought it to market is eligible to participate.

The three categories under which Innovation will be awarded are – Business Innovation (Products/Services, Business Model and Innovation in social space by a business organisation) and Social Innovation (innovation by a social organisation). Public Services Innovation (innovations by Central or State governments or any wing of the government including public-private partnership) The Award winners will get felicitated in Mumbai in the presence of industry stalwarts and some of the best innovators in the country. Besides cash prize of Rs 1 lakh, the Foundation would also extend its illustrious Governing Council’s support as mentors to the winners and a platform with VCs and angel investors.

To apply for the Awards visit http://www.maricoinnovationfoundation.org/.

The wall Street Journal 2009 technology innovation awards



Vihaan Networks Limited (VNL) promoted by Telecom veteran Rajiv Mehrotra won the bronze prize in the WSJ 2009 Technology Innovation awards for their solar powered GSM base station. Read details:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574399714096167656.html

Monday, September 14, 2009

WRENCH Enterprise for NPD


Wrench Enterprise is one of the commercial firms supported by TDB, which so far provided more than Rs 1000/- crores as soft loans for technology commercialisation. Wrench , started with Project Life Cycle Management for engineering and manufacturing sector, is one of the successful firms. The product range includes product for NPD (New Product Development). Read the L&T case.

kafgon novel herbal remedy for cough

As she is getting older, Mrs Raj Katyal of Jalandhar gets concerned about health- of others. She inherited traditional knowledge for herbal treatment of several common problems like cough from her forefathers and did not want the knowledge to disappear with her. After a period of hesitation, she subjected her work to validation by scientific community. The result is scientifically validated unique herbal product , tested at NIPER , funded under TePP of DSIR and released in market by Synkrom Healthcare.
Kafgaon, patented and registered under Trade Mark contains a unique mixture of 5 herbs- Acorus calamus (vach), Alpina galanga (Kulanjan), Psoralea corylifolia (Bavchi), Piper nigrum (Kaali Mirch) and Piper longum (Pippli).

Thursday, September 10, 2009

The geography of Innovation

Read the advocacy paper on President Obama's proposal to support regional clusters in USA. Authors- Jonathan Sallet and Ed Paisley.
courtesy: science progress

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Philips designed Chula gets Index 2009 award

Philips designed Chulha creates a safer environment for indoor cooking in several ways.
  • It traps smoke and heat inside a locally cast housing in such a way as to heat two pot-holes with a high rate of efficiency to require less fuel;
  • It then directs the smoke through a chimney chamber that includes a stack of slotted clay tablets – they capture particulates as the smoke moves through, cleaning the exhaust before it ever leaves the assembly; and
  • The Chulha’s chimney then includes an indoor access for cleaning, eliminating the need seen in previous devices for a family member, usually the mother, to climb on the roof and attempt cleaning. This has been blamed for many accidents, along with the toxicity of the smoke.
Stefano Marzano, CEO and Chief Creative Director for Philips Design (who developed the Chulha) says that Philips Design will spend the award on further supporting the availability of the Chulha in India.

African ingenuity


Maker Fair Africa show cased over 100 African innovations. Core 77 team captures them. Link:
http://www.core77.com/gallery/photos_search.asp?album_id=107&context_id=1&page_no=1

Monday, September 07, 2009

Corporate Gurukul


Corporate Gurukul aimed at training graduates and under graduates on industry readiness was promoted by alumnus of SPJIMR, Rajesh Panda and Radhika Datar. In short period of 18 months, they trained over 5000 graduates & under graduates and assessed over 50,000 participants on industry readiness / employability.