The Economic Times is running a interesting seven part series on unconventional businesses. In their concluding edition, they feature the Chennai base start-up Vortex Engineering, which is building a low-cost ATM for rural India. The start-up was incubated at the Tenet Group at the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai (IITM). Other Tenet incubated social enterprises [...]

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 of their business plans by January 25 after which around 15 to 20 [...]

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 biggest incentive for those taking the net service of Indian Railways is [...]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_o5j2wgLsg] I picked up this video from Guy Kawasaki’s blog. This is how he describes it: This is a video of the winner of Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Week innovation tournament. The challenge for the tournament was to use an everyday object to create as much value as possible. The “RubberBandTogether” team’s goal is to sell the [...]

While this came to ThinkChange India’s attention after the deadline past, the competition seems like a great opportunity for our readers and should definitely be something to do next year. Titled Genesis, this competition, which will be held at IIT-Madras, aims to do the following: Genesis is a social entrepreneurship competition that aims to bring [...]