National Innovation Foundation

The Department of Science and Technology help establish the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) of India, on Feb 28th 2000, with the main goal of providing institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up grassroots green innovations and helping their transition to self supporting activities.

National Innovation Foundation has a Governing Council chaired by Dr. R. A. Mashelkar, Former Director General CSIR. and President Global Research Alliance. Professor Anil K. Gupta, President SRISTI and Professor Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, is the Executive Vice Chairperson of National Innovation Foundation.

For the last seventeen years the Honeybee Network and Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions (SRISTI) have been scouting innovations by farmers, artisans, women, etc. at the grassroots level.

Gujarat Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network (GIAN) scales up innovations, from the Honey Bee database of innovations, through value additions in innovations to sustain creativity and ethics of experimentation. GIAN was conceived at the International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots (ICCIG), jointly organized by IIM Ahmedabad and SRISTI.

The Honey Bee database of 10,000 innovations, collected and documented by SRISTI, would be part of the National Register of Innovations to be managed and supported by National Innovation Foundation .

site URL : NIF

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CIIE-Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship

Fostering Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship

CIIE(Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship) aims at fostering innovation-driven entrepreneurship through incubation, research and dissemination of knowledge. CIIE was setup by IIM, Ahmedabad in 2001 and is supported by Government of Gujarat and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Since CIIE inception, a host of organizations, professionals, academicians and networking partners within India and across the globe have been closely associated with the initiatives of CIIE. Some of the ongoing projects of CIIE are also being backed by Wadhwani Foundation (set up by IT entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, USA), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (GoI), Piramal Foundation and Microsoft.

Setting up of CIIE was an outcome of the first national workshop on Indian Incubator for Innovation Based Enterprise (I3E) at IIMA in 1998, which brought together innovators, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, technology administrators and academics to understand the processes and policies related to commercializing technology based innovations by individual innovators. Expertise at IIMA in areas of technology network, management, grassroots level innovations and entrepreneurship development, provided the necessary impetus and the intellectual basis for this initiative.

Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship aims at fostering innovation and entrepreneurship development through research, incubation, consultancy and training in hi-tech and mass impact technologies to enhance welfare and competitiveness of the Indian economy. The three main focus area of CIIE include

• Incubation: To incubate technology based innovations and help commercialize them through an enterprise
• Research: To conduct research as well as training and develop educational material on topics related to innovations and their evolution into viable enterprises
• Dissemination: To disseminate research findings and related information on the management of innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.

site URL : CIIE

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site of the week - Economy Watch

EconomyWatch.com, the complete Economy, Business and Finance portal, has been online since 1999.

Every day EconomyWatch adds economy news and features stories to EconomyWatch's thousands of archived stories. We have complete sections on the World Economy, including key markets such as US, China and India.

In Investing EconomyWatch cover Economic Indicators, World Stock Markets and Real Estate Investment. EconomyWatch also include detailed coverage of the world's Major Companies and Industries, including new section focusing on Energy including Oil and Renewable Energy.

EconomyWatch have extensive reports in the Personal Finance section on Credit Cards, Banks and the Mortgage Industry.

Featured This Month

Oil, religion and the Saudi Arabian economy

Spain's dynamic economy could be in for a hard landing

A primer on Indian inflation

Our guide to Mutual Funds

The Forbes 2000 Global Companies

site : EconomyWatch

SOW : Abdul Kalam's Homepage

I am sorry i am late for this week's site of the week. But as it is said everything happens for a reason, so as this.

I was really thinking what should be this week's SOW(site of the week). But i was not getting time either to post it on the blog. I normally post it on Tuesdays (12th AUGUST)

And then came 15 August; India's Independence day. There was a function arranged by SIES society the parent group of our college (SIESCOMS).

Also on this occasion SIES started SEAT an education trust to sponsor students' education. Since our ex president Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam strongly believes in education and the power of it on the minds of small childrens, our college really managed to call him to innugurate this trust.

He delivered a wonderful speech on Education Knowledge and Leadership. I will try and get the speech if possible.

It was the most memorable Independence Day of my life. So all my search ended, coincidently was thinking of dedicated SOW related to India/Independence, when Kalam sir announced his own website.

Hence presenting Site of the Week :-> http://www.abdulkalam.com

He even said that, if anybody has any kind of query s/he can mail it to apj@abdulkalam.com

And then goes his slogan: " Please repeat after me I CAN DO IT, WE CAN DO IT, INDIA CAN DO IT."

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Tuesday - site of the week - India Image

We all talk about e-governance, transparency, right for information. But how many of us know the different types of websites provided by Government of India. Do we know that there exists something called as "India Image".

As it is commonly said that we are converting from memory based culture to intelligence based culture. This is because now a days getting information is not a big deal. But interpreting it intelligently is really big deal. On the same lines our very own government has started an initiative called as India Image.

India Image is a program to establishment Government of India's presence on the web. India Image Project, initiated in the year 1996. India Image is a popular programme of NIC with an objective to facilitate the establishment of a firm presence of Indian Government entities on the World Wide Web. India Image entails provision of an entire spectrum of web services to the Government sector as well as running specialized Portals for the benefit of citizens and other stakeholders.


The website : India Image


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Tuesday : Site of the Week: Mouthshut

Founded in 2000, MouthShut is India's first and largest User Generated Content Company. MouthShut has evolved into an online community where the world's most vocal and influential consumers come together to write and read reviews and compare hundreds of thousands products and services. MouthShut is also the only rare repository in the world which offers consumers the option of recording and posting video reviews.

MouthShut means many things to many segments of society.

Speak your mind and share your product experience

Enjoyed the movie you just saw? Found yourself glued to a book you read from cover to cover? Just can't resist talking about the latest gadget you bought? Share what you feel at MouthShut. You can also compare products on the basis of features, price, reviews and ratings. Liberate yourself from advertising jargons and make a choice that's unbiased and honest.

The belief is: Consumer is king.

The fact is: MouthShut provides the consumer his kingdom.

I personally feel it is a great website. We can write reviews on any thing possible. Just make a request that's it.

You can follow me on MouthShut link : my reviews
Any type of comments are most welcome

the website is : Mouthshut






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Tuesday : site of the week : Scirus.com

Scirus.com is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet. Driven by the latest search engine technology, Scirus.com searches over 450 million science-specific Web pages, enabling you to quickly:
•Scirus.com Pinpoints scientific, scholarly, technical and medical data on the Web.
•Scirus.com Finds the latest reports, peer-reviewed articles, patents, pre prints and journals that other search engines miss.
•Scirus.com Offers unique functionalities designed for scientists and researchers.

Scirus.com has proved so successful at locating science-specific results on the Web that the Search Engine Watch Awards voted Scirus.com 'Best Specialty Search Engine' in 2001 and 2002 and 'Best Directory or Search Engine Website' WebAward from Web Marketing Association in 2004, 2005 and 2006. More...

Why Use Scirus.com?

Search engines are all different in the Web sites they cover, and the way they classify these Web sites. Scirus.com, the search engine for science, focuses only on Web pages containing scientific content.

Searching more than 450 million science-related pages, Scirus.com helps you quickly locate scientific information on the Web:
•Scirus.com Filters out non-scientific sites. For example, if you search on REM, Google finds the rock group - Scirus.com finds information on sleep, among other things
•Scirus.com Finds peer-reviewed articles such as PDF and PostScript files, which are often invisible to other search engines.
•Scirus.com Searches the most comprehensive combination of web information, preprint servers, digital archives, repositories and patent and journal databases. Scirus.com goes deeper than the first two levels of a Web site, thereby revealing much more relevant information.

Pinpointing Scientific Information

Scirus.com has a wide range of special features to help you pinpoint the scientific information you need. With Scirus.com, you can:
•Scirus.com Selects to search in a range of subject areas including health, life, physical and social sciences.
•Scirus.com Narrows your search to a particular author, journal or article.
•Scirus.com Restricts your results to a specified date range.
•Scirus.com Finds scientific conferences, abstracts and patents.
•Scirus.com Refines, customize and save your searches.

the site : SCIRUS

A Lot Of Great Books…Too Little Time To Read

Guys! isn’t this a situation most of us are suffering. We always want to know whats inside business books, but can’t afford or dont have time to read it. Then at times we feel its CLICHE, everyone may give us the same GAS and we tend to leave it.

Just imagine if we can get a brief summary(of say 5-6 pages) of these books, then we would probably read all of them and then select the best one for complete reading. Probably our library may be having many of these books.

So here is a site which will give you summaries of one of the best selling business books. It is a pay site, but they provide free subscription for a month. Where in, they will send us summaries, for no cost, for a duration of a month.

I think even subscribing for a month would suffice our needs. Here is the site

Presenting Site of the Week

http://www.bizsum.com

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Tuesday : Site of the week : vakilno1.com

WHO ARE WE ?
vakilno1.com are a Delhi - Chandigarh based online service offering you the convenience and quality of in-house and in-business legal consultancy service and other facilities in the field of law. Through vakilno1.com service, vakilno1.com give you the opportunity to get answers to all your legal questions, for which you would not go to a lawyer.


vakilno1.com UNIQUE SELLING POINT
vakilno1.com uniqueness comes from providing you with direct access to a written opinion from our panel of lawyers practicing in your requested area of law. The responses to your questions given by the lawyers in vakilno1.com are not stock answers - they are personalized replies tailored to your specific situation. vakilno1.com system provides you with information that enables you to make decisions.

Site : vakilno1

Tuesday : Site of the Week : MyVakil.com

A number of well renowned and experienced Senior Advocates, retired judges, Chartered Accountants and other experts in law and taxation in India have come together to create a reliable and yet an affordable platform to provide quality legal services and advice on Indian law, MyVakil.com. Often, your work, family and other social commitments do not permit you the time to sort out your legal issues and hence MyVakil.com.

You can now entrust MyVakil.com legal work from the comfort of your office or home to the safe and well-qualified MyVakil.com Panel. Your online network of Indian lawyers:MyVakil.com . This nation-wide network of lawyers, knowledgeable in diverse fields at MyVakil.com, have come together to harness the convenience and power of the Internet to provide legal services in various parts of the country though MyVakil.com. MyVakil.com's lawyer panel will draft legal documents, deeds and forms and provide you with opinions and information on Indian law.

MyVakil.com will also communicate with lawyers all over India to register and file your forms and documents with the relevant authorities. Or, you may just browse through the legal news, read articles on current law related topics at MyVakil.com, chat with an expert on law,tax and related fields, store your important legal documents online for easy access at MyVakil.com

site : myvakil

Tueday : site of the week : About.com

About.com is an online neighborhood of hundreds of helpful experts, eager to share their wealth of knowledge with visitors.

Every month, over 53 million people* visit About.com for help with everything from health care and parenting issues to advice on travel, cooking, technology, hobbies and more. And About.com offer solutions in the form of over two million hand-crafted, original articles, recipes, product reviews, videos, tutorials and more.

All created by About.com network of expert 'Guides' - real people who, like all good neighbors, help others so that everyone's life gets just a little better.

Founded in 1996, About.com was acquired in March 2005 by The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT). Today, About.com is recognized as a top 15 content site and one of the largest producers of original content on the Web.

*Worldwide usage, About.com metrics

The site : ABOUT

Tuesday : Site of the Week : Howstuffswok

From car engines............................................. to ..........................................search engines,

From cell phones ....................................to... ....................................................stem cells,

and thousands of subjects in between, HowStuffWorks has it covered. No topic is too big or too small for our expert editorial staff to unmask ... or for you to understand.

In addition to comprehensive articles, our helpful graphics and informative videos walk you through every topic clearly, simply and objectively.

Our premise is simple:
Demystify the world and do it in a simple, clear-cut way that anyone can understand.

site : Howstuffworks

Site of the Week

Every time we see an acronym, we wonder what is it....................
Some how we recollect it, but if not then we keep on wondering with some guesses.............
Every time we are in this dilemma we feel "If there would have been some one stop solution for it."

So here is the solution for all your Acronym queries, or rather a Web based solution...............
The name is pretty simple ACRONYMFINDER.

Tuesday : Site of the Week: myDabbawla

A dabbawala (one who carries the box), sometimes spelled dabbawalla , tiffinwalla , tiffinwalla or dabbawallah, is a person in the Indian city of Mumbai whose job is to carry and deliver freshly made food from home in lunch boxes to office workers. Tiffin is an old-fashioned English word for a light lunch, and sometimes for the box it is carried in. Dabbawalas are sometimes called tiffin-wallas.

Though the work sounds simple, dabbawala is actually a highly specialized trade that is over a century old and which has become integral to Mumbai's culture.

The dabbawala originated when a person named Mahadeo Havaji Bachche started the lunch delivery service with about 100 men.Nowadays, Indian businessmen are the main customers for the dabbawalas, and the service often includes cooking as well as delivery.

site : mydabbawala

Tuesday : Site of the Week : Planningcommision.nic.in

The Planning Commission was set up by a Resolution of the Government of India in March 1950 in pursuance of declared objectives of the Government to promote a rapid rise in the standard of living of the people by efficient exploitation of the resources of the country, increasing production and offering opportunities to all for employment in the service of the community. The Planning Commission was charged with the responsibility of making assessment of all resources of the country, augmenting deficient resources, formulating plans for the most effective and balanced utilisation of resources and determining priorities. Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Chairman of the Planning Commission.

The first Five-year Plan was launched in 1951 and two subsequent five-year plans were formulated till 1965, when there was a break because of the Indo-Pakistan Conflict. Two successive years of drought, devaluation of the currency, a general rise in prices and erosion of resources disrupted the planning process and after three Annual Plans between 1966 and 1969, the fourth Five-year plan was started in 1969.

The Eighth Plan could not take off in 1990 due to the fast changing political situation at the Centre and the years 1990-91 and 1991-92 were treated as Annual Plans. The Eighth Plan was finally launched in 1992 after the initiation of structural adjustment policies.

For the first eight Plans the emphasis was on a growing public sector with massive investments in basic and heavy industries, but since the launch of the Ninth Plan in 1997, the emphasis on the public sector has become less pronounced and the current thinking on planning in the country, in general, is that it should increasingly be of an indicative nature.

The site : planningcommission

Tuesday - Site of the Week : India.Gov.In

India.Gov.In is the Official Portal of the Indian Government, designed, developed and hosted by National Informatics Centre (NIC), the premier ICT Organisation of the Government of India under the aegis of Department of Information Technology , Ministry of Communications & Information Technology.

India.Gov.In has been developed as a Mission Mode Project under the National E-Governance Plan of the Government. The objective behind India.Gov.In is to provide a single window access to the information and services being provided by the Indian Government for the citizens and other stakeholders. An attempt has been made through India.Gov.In to provide comprehensive, accurate, reliable and one stop source of information about India and its various facets. Links at various places, too, have been provided to other Indian Government Portals/websites.

The content in India.Gov.In is the result of a collaborative effort of various Indian Government Ministries and Departments, at the Central/State/District level. It is our endeavor to continue the enhancement and enrichment of this Portal in terms of content coverage, design and technology on a regular basis.

India

Tuesday : Site of the Week : IBEF

Heard about Indian brand. Yes certainly everyone has. For that matter we are living the Brand itself.

But how successful it is we never know. But they say currently India has became a brand in Telecom, IT and Retail.

It is even said that in US and UK if you say IT they see India. Such a reach has been there.

Certainly till date there is no organization which measures the brand equity of a country. But yes we have a site that caters to all the facts and figures necessary to promote India as a brand and at least to make us proud

To promote India as probably the :
"Fastest Growing Free Market Democracy"

IBEF is a public-private partnership between the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, and the Confederation of Indian Industry. IBEF aims to effectively present the India business perspective and leverage business partnerships in a globalising market-place.

India, today, is well established as a credible business partner, preferred investment destination, rapidly growing market, provider of quality services and manufactured products; and, stands on the threshold of years of unprecedented growth.

India’s Talent, Markets, Growth and Opportunity drive Brand India.

IBEF is a resource centre for global investors, international policy-makers and world media seeking updated, accurate and comprehensive information on the Indian economy, states and sectors. IBEF regularly tracks government announcements in policy, foreign investment, macroeconomic indicators and business trends.

The site is: IBEF

Tuesday - Site of the Week: BrandChannel: Are you a brand junkie

BrandChannel.com launched on February 5, 2001, by Interbrand, as the world’s only online exchange about branding. BrandChannel has grown to become a valuable resource to a growing database of subscribers and countless other readers.

BrandChannel.com is committed to providing a global perspective on brands. Challenging viewers to think further about the important issues that are affecting brands now and in the future. To further enhance brand awareness,BrandChannel offer tools and information including global listings for conferences, courses and careers, as well as links to other valuable industry resources. Brandchannel is not a one-way street; we provide the opportunity for an open exchange on the subject of brands and branding from practitioners around the world through features like online debates, and white paper submissions. Brandchannel.com is unique from other branding-related websites in that it is global in scope, offers original branding content, has an independent, unique voice, is easy to

BrandChannel.com. The world's only online exchange about branding.

Take the BrandChannel Survey
http://www.brandchannel.com/brandjunkie.asp

the site is : brandchannel