Innovation in India
This is a selection of resources on innovation in India available from the NLB catalogue or the Internet and is not meant to be an exhaustive list.
NLB print and digital resources
India as a pioneer of innovation
What does innovation mean to India? Where are the predominant sites of innovation, and under what situations do they work or fail? This book addresses these important questions arising within diverse Indian contexts: informal economy, low-cost settings, large business groups, copyright industries, an evolving pharmaceutical sector, social enterprises for the urban poor, and innovations-for-the-millions. It provides critical insights on innovation, including considerations for the highly context-driven innovation project.
All rights reserved, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017
Igniting innovation: The Tata way
The $100 billion salt-to-software conglomerate Tata Group comprises over 100 companies spread across various business sectors and continents. How does it encourage and enhance innovation in all these companies, both fledgling and well-established? This book explores how Tata Innovista, a flagship innovation programme, has fired the imagination of staff across Tata companies and has become one of the most inspiring innovation programmes in the group.
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Strategic marketing and innovation for Indian MSMEs
Learn how strategic marketing – core to improving productivity, profitability and market sustainability – influences the innovation performance of organisations through this structured study conducted on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) of both the manufacturing and service organisations in India.
All rights reserved, Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2017.
Innovation and scaling for impact: How effective social enterprises do it
This title reassesses how social sector organisations create value through innovation archetypes that blend innovation with scaling. The authors also present conceptual models to drive progress in the social sector and tools for defining the future of their organisations. Chapters 3 and 4 highlight two case studies from India on innovation as learning and innovation in support of scaling.
All rights reserved, California: Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, 2017.
A biography of innovations: From birth to maturity
Bestselling author of The Case of the Bonsai Manager, R. Gopalakrishnan explores how concepts turn into ideas, and then become prototypes, models and products in this title. Defining thought as the ancestor of innovation – without thought, there could be no innovation – he explores the impending questions such as “What happens next?” and “How can you take on challenges and keep your ideas relevant?” This is a definitive book on the life cycle of new ideas and transformations.
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Innovation stories from India Inc: Their story in their words
Read the stories of India’s finest business leaders on the innovation journey in their companies. Filled with anecdotes and real life examples, the book will appeal to anyone interested in Indian business.
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The author offers a systematic approach for a big leap and knowledge advantage through a presentation of key breakthroughs in innovation and strategic thinking. Organisations like Aquachill, AirTight Networks, Serum Institutes, Mapro, Ketan Food Exports, PARI, Tata Group, Chitale Dairies and Aditya Auto Test are cited to showcase examples where simple, refreshing solutions to complex problems are produced to create their own uncontested knowledge space.
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MyGov Innovate: MyGov Innovation
This Government of India website showcases current and past initiatives and challenges encouraging entrepreneurs and innovators in India to contribute to solving problems and issues today.
Release of the White Paper on India as an Innovation Economy - Role of IP and ICT
This White Paper by the European Business and Technology Centre discusses how India can enhance its global positioning as an innovation hub, bring in investment technology and create quality jobs through well-defined roadmaps/strategies and partnership with the European Union (EU), its Member States and European institutes.
IPO Journal – The official journal of the India Patent Office
IPO Journal details the various patents that are applied in India every week. Archives up to the year of 2007 are available.
India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0
In 2007, the India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) was launched as a public-private partnership between the Government of India’s Department of Science & Technology and Lockheed Martin Corporation with the aim of building an innovation pipeline in India. Since then, the initiative has been revamped with an additional partner, Tata Trusts, and rebranded as IIGP 2.0 in line with the Government of India’s push towards start-ups focusing on innovations with strong societal impact and cutting edge industrial innovations.