Simple asphalt tester

Good news for drivers on Delhi roads. Sang-Soo Kim, an associate professor of civil engineering in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology, developed the Asphalt Binder Cracking Device (ABCD) in a quest to find a reliable way to determine which types of pavement hold up to the stress of highway traffic and cold weather extremes. Read report at: http://www.rdmag.com/
Kim received a patent on the device in August 2007. In January, the Federal Highway Administration (USA) provided $239,000 in funding to help him commercialize the technology.

Electrolux Design Lab 2008 Finalists

The design competition received 600 entries from 49 countries and 9 made it to the final. This none will compete for the 1st place on 9th October 2008. Watch Videos on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7aN9aAJV4c

E Bag created by Apor Püspöki, a product design student at Moholy-Nagy University of Arts and Design in Budapest,has a rotating handle attached to a dynamo that charges a storage battery via arm motion. The cooling system uses Peltier technology, that transfers heat from one side of the device to the other side. Cooling status is indicated by three LED lights. The capacity of the bag is approximately three liters. The longer the walk, the cooler the refreshment at the end, thanks to E-bag, a handbag whose cooling system gets its power from being swung back and forth as its owner walks.
Guopeng Liang, a design student at Tongji University in China created I Basket-The see-through iBasket stores dirty clothes and automatically washes them when it fills up.Sung Bae Chang, a design student at Sejong University in South Korea created a portable Toaster Printer. See details of all finalists at:
http://newsroom.electrolux.com/designlab/design-lab-2008-finalists/

4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC 2009)

The 4th annual Carnival of e-Creativity (CeC2009) is scheduled to be held February 27 to March 1, 2009 (a Friday-Saturday-Sunday in springtime/late-winter, as usual) , in the sylvan spaces of Sattal Estate, just above Bhimtal, near Nainital, in the Lower Kumaon of the new Himalayan Indian state of Uttarakhand.

A basic webpage on this has now been posted up at

http://www.theaea.org/cec_cac/cec09/index.htm,

Contact person:

Shankar Barua

Managing Trustee ~ The Academy of e-Arts

The 2nd Last Resort, on The Chill Street

near Nal Damyanti Tal / Sattal

Bhimtal (Uttarakhand) - 236136

INDIA

tel: (91-5942) 247598, mobile: (91) 9868732876

Insight India 2008

Insight India 2008 is a round table on trends and design strategy. Venue: IIT, Mumbai. Dates: 4th & 5th November 2008.This unique two day event targets Indian and International companies interested in gaining a deeper understanding of Indian consumers, from a 'Trends to Design Strategy' perspective. Contact person:pratima@oniodesign.com

GreyB-IP services

GreyB is a leading patent research company based in India. They have been providing patent prosecution and patent litigation support to law firms in New York and other places. For innovators, start-ups and organisations they offer services such as:

• Patent portfolio analysis
• White space mapping.
• Patent to product/patent mapping.

Contact person: Chakshu Kalra
Co-Founder GreyB
Web: www.GreyB.com
E-mail: Chakshu.Kalra@GreyB.com

Resources for Innovators

Resource page of Indian Innovators Association has been updated. Take a look at:
http://www.indianinnovatorsforum.org/resource.htm

Want more?

Faculty Entrepreneurship Policy, IIT Kanpur

IIT Kanpur has come out with the simplest document (I have come across) on matters related to IP. It allows Faculty to begin their entrepreneurial journey with incubation in SIDBI funded incubtor, take pre-seed grant amount from TePP to cover technology risk , prepare business plan with suport from Prof BV Phani and become VC eligible big player. They can take this as full time (sabbatical) or work part time on their project. For use of institutes IP , developed by the promotors as students/ faculty and for continued use of lab, library and other facilities, the faculty company has to give the institute a liability free equity of 10%.
An example of `unleashing innovation'?

ideaForge

ideaForge is a start-up founded by three IIT Bombay alumni (Ankit Mehta, Rahul Singh,Ashish Bhat) in Feb'2007. Incubated in the Technology Business Incubator, SINE, IIT Bombay and supported under TePP. Manual charger is in the market and several more are in the pipe line.

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

The Entrepreneur Show

Milagrow and Zee Business are launching the TV programme, “The Entrepreneur Show”, geared towards Entrepreneurs and MSMEs. Managers and opinion leaders in the MSME space can participate live as audience members.The inaugural episode will tackle a critical issue for start-ups everywhere: Organisation Design and Readiness. The discussion will drive home several key points about building the organisational capacity required to successfully face challenges in today's highly competitive space.

The details of the first episode shooting are as follows:

Date: Saturday, September 6th
Time: 10:30 am (the shooting will last for around 3-4 hours)
Venue: Zee Business Limited: 19, Film City, Sector 16 A, Noida – 201301

For participation : contact:rohit.kaul@milagrow.in

Technologies for license, Rabies vaccine and Stem Cell

Two very promising technologies from India, ready for being licensed and are looking for Investors/Buyers.

1. RABIES VACCINE:

2. KNOW-HOW/PROCESS FOR FORMATION OF NEO-ORGANS & NEO-TISSUES IN THE BODY FROM AUTOGENOUS TISSUE STEM CELLS.

Interested? Contact:
Akash Bhavsar
skyquest labs pvt. ltd,Address: 1, Prem Sagar Complex, Nr. Anand Bungalows, Gurukul Road, Memnagar, Ahmedabad - 380 052 ,T: +91 79 4005 4111 | D: +91 79 4005 4112 | C: +91 937 407 4084 | F: +91 79 4005 4113

E: ab@skyquestlabs.com | W: www.skyquestlabs.com

Innovations 2009,Pune

IIT Bombay Alumni Association, Pune Chapter announced `Innovations 2009' an event to showcase brilliant innovations. The mentoring program prepares the innovator ready to face VCs and craft a business plan.Innovators from all fields, irrespective of their educational qualifications, age group or affiliations to any organizations are welcome to submit their entry. The event will be held on 10th and 11th January 2009 in Pune.
Contact person:

Shantaram Kane

1, Indradhanushya Apt.

Agarkar Road, 827/A Shivaji Nagar

Pune 411 004

Tel: (except between 12.30 pm to 3.30 pm)

91 - 20 - 2567 2833 OR 2567 6160

E-MAIL: sgkane@vsnl.net OR sgkane@gmail.com

Future Group Business world NID Design Brilliance award 2008

Ticket Design has won the Future Group Business world NID Design Brilliance award 2008 for two of our product designs. The first one is a multiplay product that brings internet, satellite television, education and communication to a TV, a first of kind project launched in March 07 successfully working in Pune, soon to be launched in 20 cities by BSNL. The second one is a industrial programmable logic controller for industrial automation.

Svapas

Svapas takes to market research results of AU-KBC Researcg Centre. Innovations include Flurobat, a portable low cost instrument for rapid detection of disease causing pathogens from human blood, stool and body fluids. Svapas fills a structural gap in the innovation eco-system.

Webguard against web page defacement

AU-KBC Centre has come out with this product, WEBGUARD, an internet security appliance.WebGuard complements firewall security by adding a last line of defence against hacker sabotage of the corporate Web site, even if all other security systems fail. The WebGuard specializes in foiling Web site defacements, thus saving its users expensive downtime, public embarrassment, and legal complications. It automatically replaces defacements with copies of the proper data. Instead of checking whether the people accessing a Web server are the right people, the WebGuard checks whether the data exiting the Web server is the right data — the right text, numbers, pictures, etc. WebGuard prototype setup consists of a 400 MHz Intel Celeron uniprocessor machine with 128 MB RAM, running RedHat GNU/Linux 7.3. This prototype easily scales up to load intensities of 100 page requests per minute.

UTEK Corporation and the Indian Innovators Association Announce Alliance

International press carried this news item. See
http://www.centredaily.com/business/technology/story/772776.html

bio-release micronutrients

Economic Times carried out this article on work of Dr Chadrika Varadachari. She is pioneer in development of bio release nutrients and decades of effort paid off with technology commercialisation by several agro firms like Sowbhagya Amino Inputs, Godrej Agrovet.

Solar Mosquito destroyer

One of the thousands of innovations scouted and documented by NIF is Solar mosquito destroyer. It attract the flies from a drainage/septic tank and trap them into the translucent top (`solar furnace'), where they perish in the heat of the sun. The assembly has to be put in the place where it can get direct exposure to sun. This SMD attracts mosquitoes into it by using biogas from a drainage tank or a septic tank and gets them trapped in its upper part where they perish in the heat of the sun.
Technology is available for transfer from NIF.

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Inviting Indian experts to register as IIA TeK expert

Indian Innovators Association (IIA) encourages and facilitates global networking of Indian scientists, engineers, researchers global market for high value services. TekScout is an open innovation network where companies post complex development projects in order order to leverage resources available worldwide.

Indian engineers/ scientists/researchers are invited to register as IIA TeKExpert.
This is free service provided by IIA in association with TekScout. And it is the right time for Indian experts to go out and test their competencies in the global market.