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Vision India 2020 Book Review: An Addictive Read
In case you missed it, YourStory spoke with Sramana Mitra about entrepreneurship, India, and her new book in this interview earlier this week. From a review of Sramana Mitra’s Vision India 2020 by Kanishk Rastogi on Amazon.com: “Futuristic vision and an entrepreneurial spirit perfectly blended by a simple, yet effective writing style, that is precisely
Vision India 2020 Book Review: Combining Entrepreneurship & Leadership
From Marylene Delbourg-Delphis’ review of Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra for Grade A Entrepreneurs: “Sramana’s Vision India 2020 is an entrepreneurial utopia . . . not a fairyland, but the description of a new present based on an extrapolation of capabilities that are at our disposal today. It’s not a stretch. It’s a matter
Vision India 2020 Book Review: A Great Read For Pioneers And Innovators
Here is Skannd‘s review of Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra for Goodreads.com: “Even though they are fictional, most ideas projected by this book are really doable and it is clear that a lot of research has been put into the possibilities. Really liked the bit about the future of solar power in India and
Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 7)
SM: I have been on a lot of campuses lately and talked with a lot of young people. There is a trend I am seeing which did not exist when I was in school. People are not doing things based on their passions as much, and they are now doing them for money. People have
Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 6)
SM: How do you tie in your basic research with business unit involvement? Applied research does not typically result in a market-ready product. PB: Researchers build prototypes, not products. Within HP Labs we have set up a process by which a small number of projects every year receive additional funding, incubation funding, to take it
Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 5)
SM: How does your approach differ from what other companies have done in the past? PB: Companies have traditionally funded academic work in the past. In those scenarios the professors would set their own research agendas. Professors would pitch to HP or IBM what they wanted to do. Our variation is that we do not
Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 4)
SM: It is my perspective that the big missed opportunity so far in IT is personalization. Nobody has cracked personalization. PB: We have a big project in HP Labs on personalization. Today’s personalization is at a Web page level. If you go to Amazon and buy some books, they will recommend other books. If you
Leading Corporate Innovation: HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee (Part 2)
SM: What did Shane articulate to you regarding HP’s vision? At one point HP was heavy on innovation. PB: I related that I had seen numerous corporate research labs across the past 30 years. I had sent my graduates to Bell Labs. I had seen how many of the corporate research labs were going through
