Would you like to hear the hottest news from Indian startup scene? Come on Tuesday 30.8 to AVP Space – Tongji Lounge to hear how Startup Europe’s partner TNFIS (http://tnfis.org/) is connecting European and Indian startup and investor ecosystems – startups, scaleups, investors, corporates and policy makers. Venkata Gandikota from TNFIS will be speaking along […]
Cross-posted from Linkedin Pulse https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-stages-grief-finnish-european-economy-2016-need-frugal-gandikota I started out helping Finnish businesses in India 5 years ago. Two years into it, I realized that when customers in developing countries like India are asking for an IKEA type solution, most Finnish businesses are instead giving them an Artek. At the same time, I noticed that the European economic crisis […]
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 […]
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 […]
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]
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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Look at the following headlines that came out on Nov 30, 2013 and Dec 6, 2013 respectively. http://profit.ndtv.com/news/industries/article-ratan-tata-says-calling-nano-the-cheapest-car-was-a-mistake-373603#! under the heading “Ratan Tata says calling Nano the ‘cheapest car’ was a mistake“. In which it is reported as follows: ”It became termed as a cheapest car by the public and, I am sorry to say, […]
