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The Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship support social entrepreneurs whose work has the potential for large-scale influence on critical challenges of our time: tolerance and human rights, health, economic and social equity, peace and security, institutional responsibility, and environmental sustainability. These issues are at the heart of the foundation’s vision of empowering people to create a peaceful, prosperous, sustainable world. Within these issues, we are particularly interested in applications from social entrepreneurs working in five critical sub-issue areas that threaten the survival of humanity – climate change, nuclear proliferation, pandemics, conflict in the Middle East and water scarcity.
The Skoll Awards provide later-stage, or mezzanine, funding, subject to payment limitations described below under Budget Guidance. In most cases, the grant is provided for core support to help organizations expand their programs and capacity to deliver long-term, sustainable equilibrium change. The Skoll Awards are not intended for new or early-stage programs or initiatives. Programs submitted for consideration should have a track record of no less than three years. In addition to core support, the Skoll Foundation supports the participation of Award recipients in the annual Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship.
Post Graduate Programme for Certificate in Entrepreneurship Management
To be launched by the Entrepreneur Development Centre (EDC) of XLRI in October, 2009.
Programme Objective
PGP-CEM has been designed to provide competency-based education to the
eligible candidates with a view to promoting entrepreneurship in Jharkhand
and rest of the country. The programme will be pursued in such a manner as to encourage critical and lateral thinking and integrate theory with practice. The ultimate objective will be (a) to create effective and successful entrepreneurs out of those who have no exposure to this vocation, but have an inclination and desire to turn into such entities, and (b) to enhance the skills of those who are currently functioning as such.
EMPI Group of Institutions along with The Indian Express Group invites Organisations operating in India to participate in an exciting Awards Programme aimed at promoting a ‘culture of innovation’ in India by showcasing their innovative actions.
Registration now open for the 4th EMPI-Indian Express Indian Innovation Awards
Last date of submission of Participation Form: September 30, 2009
Patenting is a costly, but essential process in a globalized market. Here is the cheapest patent strategy for a start-up
..if we are to raise money, investors would value our company more if we have more IP (intellectual property)
Under the patent system, a company can claim damages from anyone who seeks to commercially exploit an innovation for which they hold a patent….
Speech by the ITC Chairman, Shri Y.C. Deveshwar, at the 98th Annual 
General Meeting on July 24, 2009
Some excerpts :
A UNDP Report prepared a few years ago, pointed out that 10% of the richest adults in the world own as much as 85% of the world’s household wealth, while the bottom 50% have to contend with only 1% of household wealth.
It now takes the Earth one year and four months to regenerate resources used in a single year. And if this continues apace, the equivalent of two Earths will be needed to support humanity’s resource requirements by mid 2030s. The current global economic model is therefore clearly unsustainable.
…..a competitive low carbon strategy of growth will also have to generate incremental employment and livelihoods. Therefore, for Indian business, this new paradigm of competitiveness will not only require the creation of “green businesses”, but also the generation of “green livelihoods”.
Innovation, Incentivisation and Inclusiveness hold the key to crafting this new dimension of competitiveness.
Milagrow Small and Medium Enterprise Association, a division of Milagrow Business and Knowledge Solutions launches Venture Doctors, Mentoring Clinics for Small and Medium Enterprises.
Through “Venture Doctors”, SMEs will be able to brainstorm their organizational needs, issues and new ideas with some of the best experts in the industry. Our experts are some of the most experienced and successful professionals with significant track record in their domain of expertise.
As a social good initiative for SMEs, Venture Doctors is being subsidized by Milagrow Small Medium Enterprises Association (mSME). Clinics will be offered “Free of Cost” to all selected participants.
The key is to try to infiltrate rather than seek to invade people’s minds. This means going beyond the conventional – the so-called ‘unconventional’ brand communication methods. Events, promotions, and in-store activities are all great channels of communication, but are also getting overcrowded. The challenge is to reach out to people in a highly cost-effective way beyond these channels….. Click here for more
Over 30 products were given the top award in the International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA) 2009, organized by the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA). These ranged from innovative heavy-duty equipment to complex medical systems. The emphasis was on creating an appropriately user-friendly experience, whether that user is a veteran warehousing professional or a seasoned clinician. The Best in Show title was awarded to a company that is working hard to exorcise its past demons: Nike (NKE) won for its Trash Talk basketball shoe, made entirely from recycled materials.
Courtesy : Nauzad Tantra
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