Special Report
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Health care innovations: Designed to save lives
From infant warmers to contraceptive insertion devices, design firms are improving health care delivery with affordable, portable innovations
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IIT-Madras: Indian Institute of Innovation
With incubators for deep tech startups, funding for students and support for corporate R&D, the institute is fostering an entire ecosystem of cutting-edge ideas
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Ideas Inc: How India fares on the innovation index
The country lags behind compared with other nations
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Most innovations are scouted by volunteers: Anil K Gupta
The founder of Honey Bee Network talks about supporting and encouraging grassroots innovations
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Biotech's unlikely hero: The government
The department of biotechnology has funded and supported critical research and startups, while engaging with private industry
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We need to accept failure to progress: Samuel West
The founder of Sweden's Museum of Failure on highlighting the ideas that didn't make it and the merits of seeing the big boys fail
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Digibank: Riding the digital wave
India's first fully digital bank, DBS India, continues to innovate, both with technology and products
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There are two kinds of academia: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
The IIT-Madras veteran says that most academia, happy so far to not go beyond lab demos, are slowly warming up to industry tie-ups
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Gush of health science at IISc
IISc has also become a cradle of sorts for health care startups
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Indian companies must capture value: Rishikesha T Krishnan
Copying the rest of the world won't work, India needs its own innovations to prosper, says the director of IIM-Indore and author of From Jugaad to Systematic Innovation
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The frugal innovators at IIT-Bombay
Housed in a small shed at IIT-B, the Biomedical Engineering and Technology (incubation) Centre, or BETiC, is nurturing medtech innovators to create low cost, yet high quality medical devices