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Thursday, February 25, 2010

The Corporation that changed the world: How the East India Company shaped the modern multinational

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Founded on a cold New Year’s Eve of 1600, England ’s East India Company is considered to be the mother of the modern corporation. Like most ...
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The two experimentation loops in an innovation: the story of Watt-Boulton steam engine

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When we think of an innovation like say, the steam engine, we say, “James Watt invented the steam engine, manufactured it and made money”. T...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Innovations in the industrial sector of India: A Ratan Tata perspective

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We saw in an earlier post that in the past 35 years industrial sector in India has been missing in action as far as technology development...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

Patents from India: Broad trends over the past 35 years

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At an organization level “Number of patents filed” isn’t a perfect metric for its innovation stamina (see Edison and the patent paradox an...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Jamsetji Tata’s vision of “university of science” and Professor Ramsay’s experiment

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Some people carry a vision so powerful that even after they are dead and gone, the momentum of the idea carries itself forward. Jamsetji Tat...
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Monday, February 8, 2010

From Jugaad to systematic innovation: A book launch experience at IIM Bangalore

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“India has extraordinarily skilled technical talent but fails to create innovative products on a sustained basis” – With this paradox begins...
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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Mahatma Gandhi and the heart and the soul of systematic innovation

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People admire Mahatma Gandhi for various reasons – leadership, philosophy, as a freedom fighter, as a social reformer etc. But for me, Gandh...
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