Cool India-Clean India

It is the slogan of inventor JJ Singh, retired Lt.Col who developed Surya Kiran, a methodology for affordable cooling of homes, whose business plan was prepared by ISB. The methodology is based on using Nylon mesh of 80-20 black-green color mix (commonly used in greenhouses) to be installed in windows around the house and coating of lime mixed with adhesive to be applied on the roof. The mesh acts as a black body which absorbs the radiation and lime acts as a white body which reflects the radiation from the roof top. Appropriate positioning of the above materials in the house aligned with sun’s movement from East to West creates a Heat sink effect which leads to an ambient temperature of 26-28 degree Celsius inside the house with 30-40% relative humidity against the prevailing outside temperature of 38-40 degree Celsius and 10-20% humidity. This dust and temperature control system based on environment friendly material can lead to 40-50% savings in electricity consumption and bring down the dust level in the house significantly. With a initial investment of Rs.3000/- and a repeated annual cost of Rs.200/- of replacing the lime coating, this methodology is a low cost solution to create a “Cool India and Clean India”. This unique methodology has been granted a copyright and patent by the Government of India. (L – 24914 /2005, DT 8-9-2005).

The inventor is looking for partners to propagate this method. Contact JJ Singh at jj.jjsingh@gmail.com

Investor Forum 2007-green investments

New Ventures India will be organizing its second annual Investor Forum at Hotel Taj Lands End, Mumbai on 16 & 17 November 2007.The first Investor Forum held in 2006 in Mumbai showcased ten promising green and sustainable companies which offer solutions to the global environmental challenges.Investor Forum is an opportunity for investors/financial institutions, SMEs and consultants to interact and know more about the green investment opportunities in India.
Contact: Anil Kumar Gade at anilkumar.gade@ciionline.org.

TR 35 Young innovators 2007

See the list of young innovators selected by MIT for 2007.
Sanjit Biswas working on wireless mesh networks developed Wi-Fi router for $50/-
Tapan Parikh developed and demonstrated SHG MIS (for "self-help group management and information system"), which includes a Cam-based application for entering and processing data, a text-messaging tool for uploading data to online databases, and a package of Web-based software for managing data and reporting it to any institution that has lent money to the self-help group.
Partha Rangnathan working at HP working on concepts to reduce power consumption of computing devices.
Shetal Shah concerned about vibrations premature babies were subjected to when transported in ambulance developed a new method of transport.

patent for removal of Chromium from water

CSIR Scientists in Hyderabad, Parthasarathy; Gopalakrishnarao ; Bojja , Choudhary; Boyapati Manoranjan , have been granted a US patent for an invention aimed at the total removal of the highly toxic compound hexavalent chromium from water. Chromium is one of the a common contaminants released as effluent from electroplating and the leather tanning industries.

Siemens Venture Capital India Innovation Program

Siemens is a leading infrastructure solution provider active in areas of Energy and Environment Care, Healthcare, Automation and Control, Industrial and Public infrastructure, Lighting, Automotive, and Information Technology. Siemens Venture Capital intends to act as a catalyst to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in these sectors in India. It invites business proposals from Indian entrepreneurs and innovators. Competition open to entrepreneurs, innovators and research scientists based in India.

Deadline for submission of preliminary business proposal:Friday, November 30, 2007

Contact:Rajesh.Vakil@siemens.com

IFSEC India 2007

International exhibition on Security Technology,Equipment and Solutions - IFSEC India 2007 will take place from 25-27, October 2007 in Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. Speakers and Topics Include:

Risk Analysis & Business Impact
Police and Private Security
Reliable Safety and Security Systems for Sustainable Economic Development
Containing & Coping with Organized Crime.
Attendance to the seminars is free.

Automated invention machine

Economic Times (registration required) carried an interesting article on `Evolutionary Design'. This tantalizing hypothesis is based on work of John R Koza and others on `genetic programming'. Koza's quote " The fact that genetic programming can evolve entities that are competitive with human-produced results suggests that genetic programming may possibly be used as an "invention machine" to create new and useful patentable invention".
For those interested an ocean of resources are placed on Koza's blog.

Life Line to Business (LL2B)

Kris Dev got an opportunity to demonstrate his project` biometric tracking of beneficiaries' in Rural India - in Kurkuri and Dhuparchak Musahari, most under developed, in Gonpura Panchayat, Phulwarisharif Block of Patna district. The proof of concept was done among 170 men and women who are registered beneficiaries and having NREGP Cards with photographs. The registration and verification was done using different optical biometric devices. Read his story in his blog.

FICCI Medical Electronics Forum

FICCI is launching the ‘FICCI – Medical Electronics Forum’ (FICCI-MEF) on October 23, 2007 at FICCI New Delhi. There will be technical sessions on :

• Imaging & Patient Monitoring
  
• Devices & Implants
  
• Embedded Technologies & Software

Contact person :

Tanmoy Bose

Dy Director FICCI

Phone 91 11 2332 2375

tanmoyb@ficci.com

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.

India shining with Fatima

Al-Jazeera brought this video. India is shining because there are hundreds of fathimas.
Video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oIzqe848_A

conferenec on Leveraging innovations & inventions

NRDC is organising Innovate India 2007 Conference on "Leveraging Innovations & Inventions" on 15-16 October, 2007 at The Stein Auditorium India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi,The conference will provide an international platform to entrepreneurs, research scientists, angel & venture capitalists and evangelists to exchange ideas, and explore emerging directions both in innovation and R&D management. It also aims at highlighting new emerging technologies.

Industrial Liasioning Workshop on IT-Technopreneurship on 5th October 2007, CDAC, Noida

CDAC, Noida is organizing a ¡§Industrial Liasioning Workshop On I.T.-Technopreneurship¡¨ on October 5, 2007 at CDAC Auditorium, B-30, Sector ¡V 62, Noida - 201307. The objectives of the workshop are:-

Identifying and developing Entrepreneurial partners for outsourcing the products and services developed by C-DAC Noida. To display inbuilt software solutions of C-DAC Noida.To promote IT advisory services of IT-CC.

The workshop will highlight following IT Solutions designed, developed and deployed by CDAC, Noida and are currently available at CDAC , Noida for national roll-out.
Hospital Management Information System

Decision Support System for District Offices

Document Scanning Jobs for our Digital Library Projects

Maintenance of MIS System deployed

Support services for proliferation of BoSS LINUX

Contact person:Dr. George Varkey,varkey@cdacnoida.in

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

4th International Conference on Environmental Education

The Fourth International Conference (Tbilsiplus30) on Environmental Education co-sponsored by UNESCO and UNEP is being organized by the Government of India. Centre for Environment Education is the nodal agency for the conference and is going to be held from 26^th to 28^th November, 2007. There will be around 30 working sessions in this conference and 2 of them i.e. “Innovations and Technology” and “Sustainable Waste Management” will be organized by Waste & Resource Management Group of CEE. The details of the conference could be found at http://www.tbilisiplus30.org/

Avesthagen's horde of agri-biotech patents

Avestha Gengraine Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (Avesthagen), one of India’s leading biotechnology companies based in Bangalore, announced that the Australian Patent Office has granted a patent to the company on "A process for generating cytoplasmic male sterile line in rice and other crops by RNA editing'. This patent will revolutionize the agricultural industry and bring succor to the sector. This invention promises to open up opportunities in developing hybrids in crops where conventional male sterility is not available or feasible. This technology would allow hybrid seed programs to be developed without narrowing the diversity of germplasm. Avesthagen assists farmers by creating innovative solutions that will benefit their production.Over the years Avesthagen has made numerous inventions and now it has a significant portfolio of 137 patent applications of which 61 relate to Agri-Biotech domain.

6th Gradere student Arjun Mehta's Game Startup Gets Venture Backing

Santa Clara-based Playspan has raised venture funding even thought its founder, Arjun Mehta, is in the 6th grade.

PlaySpan works with games publishers to integrate eCommerce functionality so that they can sell merchandise as well as provide financial rewards for game play. It has also built community features. The company claims to have won 7 licensing deals with large game publishers in the MMOG category.

PlaySpan started in Arjun's garage San Jose in 2006. Seed funding came from Arjun's game challenge winnings at the 5th grade at Challenger School in San Jose. Today Arjun's company announced that it has raised $6.5M in Series A funding led by Easton Capital land was joined by Menlo Ventures, STIC International out of South Korea and Novel TMT Ventures in Hong Kong.

Source: Alarmclock