E Sreedharan for President

'Sreedharan epitomises the way in which an Indic ethos can be brought to bear upon the seemingly intractable problems facing India,' says Rajeev Srinivasan.Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com......

Innovation lessons for India from Isarel

Israel is an incredibly innovative nation. It ranks the highest in the world in the per capita number of patents filed, notes R Gopalakrishnan. One response to my last InnoColumn was......

This book junks some of innovation's most toxic myths

Arthur J Pais analyses How Stella Saved the Farm, a book that many organisations are talking about at the moment Written by Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble, How Stella Saved the Farm is a......

'I almost felt the weight of India on my shoulders'

Vijay Govindarajan, a shy Harvard student who became one of America's most respected professors, speaks to Arthur J Pais about turning the traditional outlook on innovation on its......

'Jugaad has hurt India a lot'

The world is witnessing something extraordinary: Innovations are happening first in the poor countries and then they are migrating to advanced nations, says one of the world's most influential......