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Invitation to attend Intellectual Property Tool Kit Session for Startup Entrepreneurs!

yazdi — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:48:39 +0000

Have you been in situations faced with any of these questions?

How do I profit from my intellect & know how
Is my organisation compliant with Intellectual Property laws
How do I protect my technology/brand/creative work

Then, IP Tool Kit for Start up Entrepreneurs is just for you!!

In association with BENCIL, presents:

IP Tool Kit for Start up Entrepreneurs

A two hour interactive session, stressing on the basics of Intellectual Property in the context of start ups. The speaker will share useful insights on the importance of IP for up and coming businesses and will help answer the questions lingering in the minds of innovators.

Takeaways: Master Copy of the workshop material and other relevant documents and possible solutions to all your IP-related queries!

Also, a chance to get advice on your specific IP challenges!! 3 entrepreneurs will get an opportunity to avail expert advice on their specific IP challenges through a 20-minute one on one session with the expert. These 3 will be chosen on a first-come-first-served basis.

Expert: Rajeev Surana

Patent Attorney & Founder, Scinnovation Consultants Pvt. Ltd.

Rajeev Surana is an Engineer & Marketing management (XIM) graduate by qualification and a registered Patent Attorney with the Indian Patent Office. He has been involved with the R&D and Innovation sector in India for a decade now and specializes in commercialization of ideas by helping build business partnerships with different stakeholders. He is passionate about taking “technology & design ideas to the market” by working with Individual Innovators, Entrepreneurs, Incubators & Research Institutes on ‘idea protection to commercialization’. A regular contributor to Yourstory.in on IP & Innovation as also a board member of Licensing Executive Society, India chapter and Patent Agents Association India. He is currently involved in writing a book on “Protect your Idea” and loves to run on Mumbai roads & Marathons.

Date : Saturday, 10th March 2012

Time : 10:30 am to 1.30 pm

Registration Fee: INR 150 (On the spot)

Venue : Fr.Conceicao Rodrigues College of Engineering- Bandra, Mumbai

Agenda:

10:30-11:00: Registration

11:00-12:45: Interactive Session

1.00 -1:30: One-on-One Session with expert

1:00 – 2:00: Networking over Tea and Snacks

Please confirm your participation by filling the application form

For further details, contact:

Waridhi Joshi

Ph: 9819708221 or e-mail at eclub.mum@nenonline.org

Prerana Manvi

Ph: +91 9845228630 or e-mail at prerana@nenglobal.org

We look forward to seeing you at the session!

Warm regards,
Leadership council, E Club Mumbai
NEN Secretariat

National Skills Development Corporation

yazdi — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:26:45 +0000

National Skills Development Corporation (NSDC)

NSDC is a first-of-its-kind Public Private Partnership (PPP) in India set up to facilitate the development and upgrading of the skills of the growing Indian workforce through skill training programs. A large part of the organisation’s efforts are directed at the private sector and towards developing the skills in the unorganised sector in India. NSDC supports skill development efforts, especially in the unorganised sector in India by funding skill training and development programmes. It also engages in advocacy and training programmes, in-depth research to discover skill gaps in the Indian workforce, and developing accreditation norms. To know more, click here.

Workshops for Entrepreneurs

yazdi — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 08:33:48 +0000

NSDL Database Management Ltd. has announced public programs which can be availed of by entrepreneurs, executives and investors. The following is the schedule for workshops during September-October 2011

Program Name	Date	Location	*Fees Rs.**
Equity Investing for Small Investors	10/09/2011	Thane	1,700
Understanding Financial Statements	12/09/2011	Central Mumbai	3,500
Finance Essentials for Business Managers	15/09/2011	Central Mumbai	3,500
Managing Costs	21/09/2011	Central Mumbai	3,500
Financial Planning and Wealth Accretion	22/09/2011	Central Mumbai	1,700
Communication Skills	23/09/2011	Central Mumbai	2,200
Equity Investing for Small Investors	01/10/2011	Western Suburb	1,700
Financial Planning and Wealth Accretion	08/10/2011	Central Mumbai	1,700
Finance Essentials for Business Managers	12/10/2011	Western Suburb	3,500
Understanding Financial Statements	13/10/2011	Western Suburb	3,500
Communication Skills	15/10/2011	Central Mumbai	2,200
Managing Costs	19/10/2011	Central Mumbai	3,500
Income tax for entrepreneurs	20/10/2011	Central Mumbai	2,200

* including taxes, lunch, course material

Registration details : Registration & payment closes 3 working days prior to the respective program. Cheques may be drawn in favour of ‘NSDL Database Management Ltd.’. For program details and registration contact Shubhada on 022 40904450/Charuta 022 40904720 or email us on shubhadak@nsdl.co.in or charutab@nsdl.co.in. Please visit our website www.ndml.in

Click Here to download the registration form

Enterprise Creation and Growth

yazdi — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 03:06:49 +0000

Post Graduate Diploma in Management (Executive) – Enterprise Creation and Growth(PGDM – Executive)

The fast paced competitive world of today demands professionals to continue escalating their own standard and reinventing ways and means to compete. To enable Managers, Successors of Family Business and Entrepreneurs redefine their parameters and thus success. Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India annouces a comprehensive fifteen months, full-time Executive Development Programme, “Post Graduate Diploma in Management – Enterprise Creation and Growth (Executive PGDM)” duly approved by AICTE, Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India.

Programme Objectives :

It is a unique programme designed to provide an in-depth understanding of the field of enterprise creation and management.

It helps family business successors to sharpen their entrepreneurial and managerial skills.
It enhances knowledge, skills and capabilities of participating executives to enable them create, manage and lead a business organization entrepreneurially.
It also facilitates professionals in developing their intrapreneurial skills to establish the culture of corporate entrepreneurship.

Click Here for more

The TED Commandments

yazdi — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:36:53 +0000

The TED Talks promoters send this tablet as a guide for speakers prior to each event. In her TED Talk Amy Tan described the arrival of the TED Commandments as “something that creates a near-death experience; but near-death is good for creativity…”

Click Here for the TED Commandments

Fellowships for Outstanding Persons in Culture

yazdi — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 04:42:08 +0000

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA – MINISTRY OF CULTURE
SCHEME FOR THE AWARD OF FELLOWSHIPS TO OUTSTANDING PERSONS IN THE FIELD OF CULTURE
Ministry of Culture operates the Scheme for the Award of Senior/Junior Fellowships for undertaking research oriented projects in the fields of Performing, Literary and Plastic Arts as also New Areas related to Culture. The Scheme has recently been revised and, starting from the year 2010-11, 400 Fellowships (200 Senior Fellowships of the value of Rs. 20,000/- per month and 200 Junior Fellowships of the value of Rs. 10,000/- per month) will be awarded every year.
Applications are invited from eligible persons for award of Senior/Junior Fellowships for the year 2010-11. Details of the Scheme, instructions for applicants and format of the application form can be downloaded from the website of the Ministry: www.indiaculture.nic.in
Applications, duly completed in all respects, may be addressed to Section Officer (S&F), Ministry of Culture, Government of Indi.a, 2nd Floor (Backside), NAI Annexe Building, Janpath, New Delhi-11 0001, with “Application for Junior Fellowship” or “Application for Senior Fellowship”
clearly superscribed on the envelope, and sent only by Registered Post or Speed Post, so as to reach on or before the last date of receipt of applications. For any clarification, please contact Section Officer, S&F Section at Telephone No. 011-23389608.

28th February, 2011 is the last date for receipt of applications.

Research Fellowships and Young Investigator Awards

yazdi — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:05:52 +0000

Regional Centre for Biotechnology
an institution of education, training & research (Established by the Dept. of Biotechnology, Govt. of India, under the auspices of UNESCO)

Research Fellowships and Young Investigator Awards

Research Fellowships: Applications in prescribed format are invited from post-graduate candidates who have obtained M Sc in any discipline of the sciences/ MBBS / M Pharma / M Tech / MVSc, as Junior Research Fellows
(JRFs) leading to a PhD degree.

RCB-Young Investigator Awards: Young scientists (below age of 35) having Ph 0 degree (or likely to complete in next 3 months) in any discipline of science are invited to send their application in the prescribed format to work under the mentorship of senior faculty as ReS-Young Investigator.

Interested candidates should see full advertisements on website (www.rcb.res.in). Last date for receipt of completed applications is 31 st December, 2010.

Young Entrepreneurs’ International Summit

yazdi — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:30:19 +0000

The Summit will provide a platform for networking, contact building and understanding new opportunities and challenges for young entrepreneurs in National and International markets.

Eminent speakers from Corporate, MNCs, Banks, Industry, Technology, International Trade, Private Equity and Venture Capital Firms, Consulting Agencies, Marketing, Government, Entertainment, Arts and the Ministers and prominent personalities from different fields will interact, guide and create awareness amongst the entrepreneurs.

This will also elaborate on enhancement of business activities, capacity building, export promotion, acquiring latest technology, equity funding, banking finance, strategies to enter into new markets, business collaborations and alliances, skill development, set up new enterprises and expansion, changing mindset of the family run business, quality management, productivity improvement and other business opportunities. The Summit will also discuss on various issues and problems of the young entrepreneurs to survive in the competitive market.

It will concentrate on grooming and incubation process to provide useful information to guide them in different aspects of business development and management.

The Forum will provide information and guidance on the process of setting up an enterprise, making a business plan, market study, feasibility reports, project reports, approaching a bank or a financial institution for obtaining term loans and working capital, development of skills pertaining to manufacturing, quality, marketing and human relations, effective communication, exports, foreign exchange rules and regulations, international payment settlements, risk management and other related topics.

Click Here for more details ………….

Stanford-India Biodesign Fellowship

yazdi — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:37:54 +0000

STANFORD-INDIA BIODESIGN FELLOWSHIP

Announcing a fellowship opportunity under the StanfordIndia Biodesign (SIB) program for the year 2011 .

About us:

The SIB program explores the basics of biomedical technology innovation and entrepreneurship through an intensive one year fellowship at the Stanford University, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. The program is sponsored by Department of Biotechnology (Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India) and Stanford University, USA in partnership with Indo-US Science & Technology Forum.

Eligibility:

Candidates with graduate or postgraduate degrees (engineers, doctors, business professionals, others) having passion for invention and early-stage development of new medical technologies addressing the clinical needs in India are encouraged to apply. Applicants must be Indian citizens, and must be able to devote full one year at the Stanford University, USA and the SIB Center, AIIMS, New Delhi. Shortlisted candidates will be called for final interview at New Delhi.

Benefits:

Fellowship pays stipend, tuition, travel and health benefits. Fellows are mentored by experts in the USA and India.

Duration: One year; starting January 2011 (Full time)

Apply online: http://biodesign.stanford.edu/india/

Last Date of Application: Mav 15, 2010

Queries should be addressed to: info@sibiodesign.org

“Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!”

Support — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:37:23 +0000

“Have Breakfast… or… Be Breakfast!”

By Y. L. R. MOORTHI

[Management Views from IIMB is an exclusive column written every two weeks for india.wsj.com by faculty members of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.]

Who sells the largest number of cameras in India?

Your guess is likely to be Sony, Canon or Nikon. Answer is none of the above. The winner is Nokia whose main line of business in India is not cameras but cell phones.

Reason being cameras bundled with cellphones are outselling stand alone cameras. Now, what prevents the cellphone from replacing the camera outright? Nothing at all. One can only hope the Sonys and Canons are taking note.

Try this. Who is the biggest in music business in India? You think it is HMV Sa-Re-Ga-Ma? Sorry. The answer is Airtel. By selling caller tunes (that play for 30 seconds) Airtel makes more than what music companies make by selling music albums (that run for hours).

Incidentally Airtel is not in music business. It is the mobile service provider with the largest subscriber base in India. That sort of competitor is difficult to detect, even more difficult to beat (by the time you have identified him he has already gone past you). But if you imagine that Nokia and Bharti (Airtel’s parent) are breathing easy you can’t be farther from truth.

Nokia confessed that they all but missed the smartphone bus. They admit that Apple’s Iphone and Google’s Android can make life difficult in future.

But you never thought Google was a mobile company, did you? If these illustrations mean anything, there is a bigger game unfolding. It is not so much about mobile or music or camera or emails?

The “Mahabharat” (the great Indian epic battle) is about “what is tomorrow’s personal digital device”? Will it be a souped up mobile or a palmtop with a telephone? All these are little wars that add up to that big battle. Hiding behind all these wars is a gem of a question – “who is my competitor?”

Once in a while, to intrigue my students I toss a question at them. It says “What Apple did to Sony, Sony did to Kodak, explain?” The smart ones get the answer almost immediately. Sony defined its market as audio (music from the walkman). They never expected an IT company like Apple to encroach into their audio domain. Come to think of it, is it really surprising? Apple as a computer maker has both audio and video capabilities. So what made Sony think he won’t compete on pure audio? “Elementary Watson”. So also Kodak defined its business as film cameras, Sony defines its businesses as “digital.”

In digital camera the two markets perfectly meshed. Kodak was torn between going digital and sacrificing money on camera film or staying with films and getting left behind in digital technology. Left undecided it lost in both. It had to. It did not ask the question “who is my competitor for tomorrow?” The same was true for IBM whose mainframe revenue prevented it from seeing the PC. The same was true of Bill Gates who declared “internet is a fad!” and then turned around to bundle the browser with windows to bury Netscape.

The point is not who is today’s competitor.

Today’s competitor is obvious. Tomorrow’s is not.

In 2008, who was the toughest competitor to British Airways in India? Singapore airlines? Better still, Indian airlines? Maybe, but there are better answers. There are competitors that can hurt all these airlines and others not mentioned. The answer is videoconferencing and telepresence services of HP and Cisco. Travel dropped due to recession. Senior IT executives in India and abroad were compelled by their head quarters to use videoconferencing to shrink travel budget. So much so, that the mad scramble for American visas from Indian techies was nowhere in sight in 2008. (India has a quota of something like 65,000 visas to the U.S. They were going a-begging. Blame it on recession!). So far so good. But to think that the airlines will be back in business post recession is something I would not bet on. In short term yes. In long term a resounding no.

Remember, if there is one place where Newton’s law of gravity is applicable besides physics it is in electronic hardware. Between 1977 and 1991 the prices of the now dead VCR (parent of Blue-Ray disc player) crashed to one-third of its original level in India. PC’s price dropped from hundreds of thousands of rupees to tens of thousands. If this trend repeats then telepresence prices will also crash. Imagine the fate of airlines then. As it is not many are making money. Then it will surely be RIP!

India has two passions. Films and cricket. The two markets were distinctly different. So were the icons. The cricket gods were Sachin and Sehwag. The filmi gods were the Khans (Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and the other Khans who followed suit). That was, when cricket was fundamentally test cricket or at best 50 over cricket. Then came IPL and the two markets collapsed into one. IPL brought cricket down to 20 overs. Suddenly an IPL match was reduced to the length of a 3 hour movie. Cricket became film’s competitor. On the eve of IPL matches movie halls ran empty. Desperate multiplex owners requisitioned the rights for screening IPL matches at movie halls to hang on to the audience. If IPL were to become the mainstay of cricket, as it is likely to be, films have to sequence their releases so as not clash with IPL matches. As far as the audience is concerned both are what in India are called 3 hour “tamasha” (entertainment) . Cricket season might push films out of the market.

Look at the products that vanished from India in the last 20 years. When did you last see a black and white movie? When did you last use a fountain pen? When did you last type on a typewriter? The answer for all the above is “I don’t remember!” For some time there was a mild substitute for the typewriter called electronic typewriter that had limited memory. Then came the computer and mowed them all. Today most technologically challenged guys like me use the computer as an upgraded typewriter. Typewriters per se are nowhere to be seen.

One last illustration. 20 years back what were Indians using to wake them up in the morning? The answer is “alarm clock.” The alarm clock was a monster made of mechanical springs. It had to be physically keyed every day to keep it running. It made so much noise by way of alarm, that it woke you up and the rest of the colony. Then came quartz clocks which were sleeker. They were much more gentle though still quaintly called “alarms.” What do we use today for waking up in the morning? Cellphone! An entire industry of clocks disappeared without warning thanks to cell phones. Big watch companies like Titan were the losers. You never know in which bush your competitor is hiding!

On a lighter vein, who are the competitors for authors? Joke spewing machines? (Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, himself a Pole, tagged a Polish joke telling machine to a telephone much to the mirth of Silicon Valley). Or will the competition be story telling robots? Future is scary!

The boss of an IT company once said something interesting about the animal called competition. He said “Have breakfast …or…. be breakfast”!

That sums it up rather neatly.

—Dr. Y. L. R. Moorthi is a professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He is an M.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and a post graduate in management from IIM, Bangalore.

Courtesy : Khushnood Viccaji