17 January 2012
Dr Shai Vyakarnam shares his initial thoughts from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, where he has taken up a Visiting Professorship, with a view to co-create courses, develop soft infrastructure and begin a journey of culture change that favours a faster transfer of knowledge...
31 August 2011
This note from a participant of a two-week programme on Entrepreneurship orientation held in Cambridge for Ahmedabad University captures the essence of what may be called the ecosystem of learning. It explores what makes Cambridge work in terms of the spirit of entrepreneurship; linkages between...
24 May 2011
Compared to young people from a middle-class background in strife-torn regions like Palestine and Macedonia, young Indians have everything to celebrate: size of the market opportunity within India, the freedom to act, general access to safe environments and a legal system all mean that the...
26 April 2011
This question implies that the questioner has not thought much about the question itself because he or she already has the answer to hand. The nature or nurture debate will go long into the night, but the most important starting point is to recognise that a number of conditions need to be...
10 March 2011
Dr Shai Vyakarnam shares his views on a thought provoking article that suggests that poverty and income distribution is shaped much more like a free vortex, rather than as a pyramid. For entrepreneurs and businesses, this would imply that they need to radically rethink how they innovate by...
28 February 2011
Investors, entrepreneurs and policy-makers need to consider the implications of seeing entrepreneurship as a method rather than as a destiny or as magic! It would strengthen incubation processes and result in strong social networks being developed to better assist nascent entrepreneurship.
21 February 2011
Building technology companies is hard work, as most entrepreneurs will testify. The challenges include: technology development, matching technology to market needs, creation of a product or service, finding the right business model, and raising enough money to make all this happen. There are key...
17 February 2011
A question to get us started: Is India really a nation of entrepreneurial people or a nation of desperate job seekers?
There is a growing movement of entrepreneurship development, a growing body of courses, incubation centres and academics dedicated to the topic are all evolving in the...
19 October 2010
The biggest challenge technology companies face today is to match technology to market need and to create new products and services by synthesizing innovations in technology, business models and channels to market.
14 April 2010
Recovering markets in Europe and North America present fresh opportunities for Indian media and technology companies with global ambitions.