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New Economic Order Calls For Quality, Affordable, Accessible And Sustainable Solutions

December 29, 2015 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

This article was first written as an article for Twinkle Tampere 2015 as part of my participation as a speaker in their conference. Original link here: http://www.twinkletampere.fi/blog/2015/11/26/new-economic-order-calls-for-affordable-accessible-and-sustainable-solutions-2/ As we are preparing to end 2015 and looking forward to our non-profit’s own conference- InnoFrugal 2016 during April 25-26 in Helsinki, I thought it would be a […]
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InnoFrugal 2015 Conference Report

May 3, 2015 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

InnoFrugal 2015 Objective The Nordic Frugal Innovation Society ry in partnership with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, organized in Helsinki, InnoFrugal conference during 16-17 April 2015. The objective of InnoFrugal was to create a common ground for development of frugal innovations in developing countries and Finland/EU so that businesses can generate practical, affordable […]
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Tekes & Finnish Foreign Ministry’s Joint Program – BEAM – Business With Impact Kickoff

May 3, 2015 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

I have created a Twitter story line using Storify app on the proceedings from the Kickoff event. There are both Finnish and English tweets along with some photos and videos. Enjoy! [View the story “Tekes & Finnish Foreign Ministry’s Joint Program BEAM – Business With Impact Kickoff ” on Storify]
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InnoFrugal 2015 Conference As It Happened

April 25, 2015 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

We have put together tweets from the 2 day conference – InnoFrugal – The world’s first conference focusing exclusively on Frugal Innovation held at GE Healthcare Finland premises in Helsinki during April 16-17, 2015. [View the story “InnoFrugal 2015 Event” on Storify]
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A New Year Gift – Free TNFIS Individual Membership

January 5, 2015 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

For a limited time only……. to all our new individual members enrolling between January 1st and 30th April 2015, we are going to give you a Free 2015 Annual Membership which is worth 25 Euros. JOIN NOW… CLICK HERE Benefits: A free TNFIS yearbook. Members will get 40% off on event fees. Some events could be free (eg: coffee […]
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Happy New Year 2015

January 1, 2015 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments
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Indo-Finnish workshop on Inclusive and Frugal Innovation

December 28, 2014 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

Indo-Finnish workshop on Inclusive & Frugal Innovation was conducted on Wednesday 10th December, 2014 at IIT Delhi campus.

The opening remarks were done by Dr. Anil Wali, Managing Director at Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer, IIT Delhi and Ms Silva Paananen, Partner for Tekes in India.

I first heard about this proposed workshop sometime in early November 2014 via Mari Hakkarainen, TEM. I was really looking forward to attend this workshop and talk about Frugal & Inclusive Innovation in Nordic Countries and also meet with other actors from Finland and India in this field.
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Frugal Innovation Article in April 2014 issue of Valokynä Magazine

April 28, 2014 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

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Is Your Business Making Something That People Want? (Part 2 of 2)

April 3, 2014 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

Reposting from the Jykes International Blog http://www.jykes.fi/fi/kansainvaelistymaeaen-blogi/2213-is-your-business-making-something-that-people-want The Time to Frugal Innovate is not now, but yesterday. By this I mean that the business that now applies the Frugal Innovation process is not the first to do so. It already started: when GE Healthcare introduced their ECG and ultrasound machines, when Siemen’s introduced their Fetal […]
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Is Your Business Making Something That People Want? (Part 1 of 2)

April 2, 2014 by Venkata Gandikota 0 Comments

Reposting from the Jykes International Blog http://www.jykes.fi/fi/kansainvaelistymaeaen-blogi/2213-is-your-business-making-something-that-people-want Paul Graham, co-founder of the Y-Combinator seed accelerator, notes on his website about the phrase that became their motto: Make something people want. I would bet that almost every business out there says that this is what they are doing. Now I would ask them: really? Sometimes irrespective […]
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