Sreelatha Menon
The world goes green with the world cup, as players take bottles to the field. This season the football extravaganza was not all about great football, but about a green revolution that has taken the world of sports by storm.
Recycled plastic PET bottles collected from landfill sites in Taiwan and Japan have been used to make the jerseys worn by players from Brazil, Portugal, Netherlands, USA, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand Serbia and Slovenia all national teams sponsored by Nike.
Tata Jagriti Yatra
Selections open for 2010 – Apply NOW
Tata Jagriti Yatra is an annual train journey that that takes hundreds of India’s highly motivated youth (with some participation of international students) between the ages of 20-25 and experienced professionals with age above 25, on a eighteen day national odyssey, introducing them to unsung heroes of India. The aim is to awaken the spirit of entrepreneurship – both social and economic – within India’s youth by exposing them to individuals and institutions that are developing unique solutions to India’s challenges. Through this national event we have begun to inspire the youth of India to lead and develop institutions both nationally and within their communities.
Vision
The vision of Tata Jagriti Yatra is to inspire young Indians living in the middle of the Indian demographic diamond (Rs 40-Rs 120 per day) to lead development by taking to enterprise. By doing so, they can turn from being job seekers to job creators. Apart from this economic argument, they also discover a purpose that is appropriate for their talents. Only if we create a movement around enterprise led development will India’s youth employment and development issues will be resolved.
How to get Involved
We are seeking to engage individuals both within and outside India as well as Indian and international institutions and corporations. You are welcome to associate as a sponsor, participant or both and there are various avenues to do so. As a sponsor, your contributions will go towards our long term goal of create a 100% cost free participation for all deserving participants. You can directly sponsor a participant or donate towards the ongoing support operations around the Yatra. Jagriti’s parent body the Jagriti Sewa Sansthan is an 80G Non-Governmental Organization in India and your donation is accordingly tax deductible.Individuals are encouraged to sponsor participants through multiples of Rs.32,000.00 which the amount to fund each participant. Smaller amounts can be donated towards raising funds for any participant. If necessary, profiles of deserving participants who have qualified through our selection process are available. Please enquire with us for further details.
Foundations and Institutions are welcome to donate generously towards the operating costs of the Yatra. We will be happy to issue you with a summary of activities that your support is helping us deliver. Corporate sponsorships are available through various packages. Please see the details in the links below and contact us for further information.
If you wish to join the Yatra as a facilitator, you need to qualify through our selection process. Please register through our site and will be in touch with you.
To find out how you can contribute and participate in the Yatra, please select a link below which represents who you are:
Help us inspire the next path breaking entrepreneurs of modern India. Get involved now.
Making Ecopreneurs
Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship
The first edition of this book looked at the emergence of ‘ecopreneurs’ – environmental entrepreneurs gaining competitive advantage for their firms through understanding and utilising green issues. These green entrepreneurs have led the way in enabling market forces to generate economic growth whilst protecting the environment and encouraging sustainability.
A mentoring success story on how an entrepreneur faced with the failure of Plan A successfully transitioned to Plan B that really worked – Raj Bhat – NEN
Thousands of Professionals wish to make their expertise available to MSMEs 
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The endeavour is to enable optimal match-making between Professionals and MSMEs and thus create a win-win for all.
If you have an idea that needs another brain to make it work; or a prototype that needs an out-of-box solution; or a start-up that needs investment advice, this is your place. IdeasXchange is a great new discussion forum that leverages the collective intelligence of fellow entrepreneurs, investors, mentors and even dreamers. Hop on!
Also, do visit and join the unique Venture Center library, focused on technology innovation, entrepreneurship and commercialization: http://www.vcenterlibrary.org/
Call for Application for India Innovation Initiative 2010 – Last date 15th July 2010
Call for Application for India Innovation Initiative -i3-2010
Objective
The objective of the India Innovation Initiative project is to create an innovation eco-system in the country by sensitizing, encouraging and promoting innovators and facilitating commercialization of the innovations.
Who can participate ?
Participation is open to all innovators in the age group of 18 years and above.
This includes :
All colleges, universities and Institutes.
Innovators from R&D Institutions and Labs.
Entrepreneurs, Industry professionals and Freelance Innovators.
Grassroot Innovators through NGOs and Rural development organizations.
Important dates in snapshot
1. Start Date of Registration May 2010
2. Last date for receiving entries 15th July 2010.
3. Announcement of shortlisted names for the regional Fairs 3rd week of August
4. Regional Fairs 15-30 Sept, 2010
5. i3 National Fair End of October, 2010
To promote and inculcate a spirit of innovation in India, many steps have been taken by both the government of India as well as by Industry leaders to encourage application of breakthrough technology ideas in the society.
Addressing the need to expand the young innovators initiative to those above 18 years &include a wider scope of participation from all potential innovators, CII &DST have now joined hands with Agilent to launch the nation-wide innovation competition for all innovators above the age group of 18+, “India Innovation Initiative – i3″.
i3 aims to capture the innovative ideas from the Indian innovators in the age group of 18 years and above, including students, innovators from R&D Institutes &Labs, Industry professionals and individual innovators/Entrepreneurs, grassroots innovators etc.
After the last year’s great response i3 this year has decided to have four regional fairs for preliminary selection of innovations which it will receive from all over India. Each region will shortlist innovations based on creativity, innovation, implementation strategy and relevance.
We expect to receive over 500 innovations per region. Innovations will be selected by a Novelty search which will be conducted by APTDC and TNTDPC .Only those innovations which are patented or have the high potential of being patented will be selected for the Regional Fairs.
Further the most potent and relevant innovations ( approx.40 ) will be selected for the national i3 fair by a panel of expert jury. The winners will be chosen at the National Fair once again by a panel of eminent jury.
Their will be cash prizes, awards, recognition and support to winners.
Evaluation will be based on:
i) Maturity level of the innovation
ii) Business Potential
To participate and know more about this registration procedures visit - http://bit.ly/b2lUCY
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