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Benchmarking our understanding of innovation –ecosystem


1. what is an innovation, how do we define it?



2. is it necessary to be an innovator to be successful in social or economic business?

can you classify different kinds of innovations at different stages of supply and value chain in any specific sector( use extra sheet if needed, better explain it through a flow diagram)?








4. constancy is an important as constant improvement: comment




5. good ideas can come from any where but can any one perceive or spot them, sift and sort them, assimilate them? What special skill should an eye for innovation have?





6. not every one may be an innovator but every one can be creative in some or the other field all the time: comment










7. open innovation model requires not just sourcing ideas from any where, every where, but also requires incentivizing them appropriately. Comment









8. what kind of incentives do you think will work at which stage of innovation cycle and for which kind of actors? Try to develop a taxonomy of incentives

how else to use 100,000 c r meant for subsiding non poor

Food subsidy Bill is a betrayal of self respecting, hardworking and creative people of india. Making 60 per cent of rural India and 50 per cent of urban india stand in the queue for 6kg grain per person per month shows how little state trust markets even where they work. People ability to work hard and earn their food is being compromised. Because state does not want to remove absolute poverty in most poor regions for ever, it wants to distribute food even to those who dont need, much less deserve this subsidy. what else could be done with 100,000 cr rupees? support creative and innovative people in informal sector for whom we just have Rs 8 cr p a; support participatory micro watershed and irrigation projects in dry regions. Any body who does not understand this must visit vidharbha and also suarashtra, gujarat and see teh difference. In maharashtra, farmers commits suicides but no effort to conserve water in situ, promote non chemical pest control methods and provide smal machineries to farmers. It is shame that government does not intend to promote innovations and technological change in rural and urban india and instead wants to offer a feast to rats!!! (both natural and human rats who wil pilfer much of these grains..). Government can not store what it already procures, it want to procure more, depress private procurement and thus fuel inflationary pressures. i am a great supporter of state intervention to remove poverty but not this way... certainly not,

how else to use 100,000 c r meant for subsiding non poor

Food subsidy Bill is a betrayal of self respecting, hardworking and creative people of india. Making 60 per cent of rural India and 50 per cent of urban india stand in the queue for 6kg grain per person per month shows how little state trust markets even where they work. People ability to work hard and earn their food is being compromised. Because state does not want to remove absolute poverty in most poor regions for ever, it wants to distribute food even to those who dont need, much less deserve this subsidy. what else could be done with 100,000 cr rupees? support creative and innovative people in informal sector for whom we just have Rs 8 cr p a; support participatory micro watershed and irrigation projects in dry regions. Any body who does not understand this must visit vidharbha and also suarashtra, gujarat and see teh difference. In maharashtra, farmers commits suicides but no effort to conserve water in situ, promote non chemical pest control methods and provide smal machineries to farmers. It is shame that government does not intend to promote innovations and technological change in rural and urban india and instead wants to offer a feast to rats!!! (both natural and human rats who wil pilfer much of these grains..). Government can not store what it already procures, it want to procure more, depress private procurement and thus fuel inflationary pressures. i am a great supporter of state intervention to remove poverty but not this way... certainly not,

food subsidy for non poor

To even suggest that i will ever oppose subsidies for the extremely poor is preposterous. but to say that fifty per cent of urban and say 60 or more percent of rural people need food subsidy is to pass a great moral judgment on the ability of a large majority of Indians. issue is not whether food should be subsidized, Germany has resources and it still does subsidize food even today. BUt should subsidizing food for people who can afford to buy it take priority over setting up say 6000 navodaya vidyalayas providing high quality education in every block of the country if not every village. will parents not mind remaining a bit hungry if their children could get better education and healthy mid day meals? will setting up a five crore rupees social venture fund in every district not unleash creative and entrepreneurial power of youth of this country? will getting clean drinking water( remember that 60 per cent diseases are water borne) to people not make sense? there is so much more that can be done with 100,000 crore than just letting rats of India have a feast!! or lazy intellectuals hope that social welfare will improve by depressing markets where they do work. i know i failed to convince NAC members and the PMO about mental work instead of just menial under NREGA, would that mean the failure of the argument?? i will persist