AVENUES is the Annual International Business festival of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), IIT Bombay
AVENUES 2009(31st Oct – 1st Nov) represents our relentless commitment towards the promise to attain the balance of all the three aspects (People, Planet and Profit)…
Close on the heels of Shivam’s post on the open innovation tool, Innocentive, I am excited to write about the Open Innovation Portal, backed the Centre of Excellence in E-governance at Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi), along with Sun Microsystems and Knowledge Commons.
One very important point…
Social enterprises are often searching for sustainable breakthrough innovations, but lack the resources to invest in large-scale research and development. One creative, and increasingly popular, solution to this problem is open innovation. The basic concept is to utilize the collected…
The India chapter of Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES-India) operating out of IIT-Madras is set to conduct workshops running up to a competition in which the best social business plan will be rewarded. Times of India reports,
Participants must submit executive summaries…
[News Source: Business Standard]
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni plan to create a social fund aimed at supporting various projects that will create job opportunities for rural youth and transform India’s Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs). PanIIT Alumni, which conducted the PanIIT…
iDiscoveri…
Day 2
The second day started off by getting down to business immediately. Madhav Chavan of Pratham was the first speaker and his mandate was to enlighten the gathering on “How to scale up an organization?”. It really was a treat listening…
The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to…
[Story Source: Livemint] [More information: Ejeevika Website]
A startup incubated by Rural Technology and Business Incubator (RTBI), a society established under IIT-Madras, plans to connect people living in rural areas with job opportunities presented by urban explosion – and make money…
I came across two articles today where the railroad industry in Kerala is pushing some small scale innovations of their own.
Here is the first story.
The railways is providing broadband Internet connection in the state through the Railtel Corporation of India. The…
