‘LETTERS FROM INDIA’ Archivi
Another Silicon Valley Dot.com Bust Coming?
di Sheridan Tatsuno Facebook going public is probably the longest awaited event in the history of Silicon Valley, which has a notoriously short attention span. Accustomed to startups becoming overnight successes, we valley folks expect Facebook to trigger an IPO (initial public offering) boom and more investments. But some observers worry [...]
Patenting India’s Innovation
I have received numerous requets from readers that I should right something on patenting systems of India, which has received much attention recently. The reason for this attention being booming Pharma market of India. McKinsey believes that from a market size of US$ 6.3 billion in 2005, the Indian pharma market will grow to about US$ 20 billion [...]
Tata Nano – India’s very own affordable, sustainable and radical innovation
It’s good to be back on LSE after a break of few months. As I discussed in last post, affordability and sustainability are replacing premium pricing and abundance as innovation’s drivers. In this post we will have a look at India’s very own affordable and sustainable (!) radical innovation. Yes, it’s about Tata Nano. The Nano has [...]
Changing Drivers of Innovation
Most innovation programs are built on the assumptions of affluence and abundance. However, we see shaken consumers in the United States and Europe asking for inexpensive or value-for-money products and services. We see billions of first-time consumers in China and India—where economic growth is surging and 2 billion to 3 billion people will [...]
Shifting Innovation Pendulum
Over the past few years, corporations have accepted that dominance of companies from North America, Europe, and Japan in innovation arena is going to come down. Each year since 2005, Bloomberg Business Week has published annual rankings of “The 50 Most Innovative Companies” globally. In early years, companies from North America, Europe, and [...]
From Conceptualization to Commercialization: Roadmap to build your innovation
As Johann von Goethe said, “The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.” Every company, every entrepreneur has ideas-usually a lot of them; but as researchers suggest most of the ideas do not get converted into [...]
Incubating a generation of innovators
With 241 million people currently enrolled in its education system, India has a challenge of its lifetime to create a workforce which can raise the country and the world to the next level. People singed up with the education system, and below 30 in age, far exceed the total population of number of countries. It’s a mammoth task. That is why I [...]
