What is Design Public?
Design Public is a series of conversations about design and innovation in the public interest.This blog is curated by the Center for Knowledge Societies, the innovation consulting firm that guides the establishment of the Adianta School for Leadership and Innovation.
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3 Environmentally Conscious Startups from India
Today is World Environment Day, a time to assess and address the kind of collective impact we’ve had on the environment. While it is important to review where we’ve been failing and why we haven’t been meeting environmental standards and … Continue reading
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Tagged Earth-100, eco-conscious, Nuru Energy, Sarga, startups, World Environment Day
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Is Bangalore to Entrepreneurship what Bombay is to Bollywood?
Bangalore has had the reputation of being a technology and IT hub for a while now, and over the last few years has definitely evolved into a hub for entrepreneurs and startups as well (think Flipkart, Redbus and MakeMyTrip). But, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bangalore, ecology, entrepreneurship, startup festival, startups
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Pecha Kucha Night #17: Creative Entrepreneurship
The overwhelmingly positive response to the last Pecha Kucha Night, which focused on Startup Entrepreneurship, convinced us that we needed to dedicate another edition of PKN to this topic. Not only did the audience share some excellent feedback and enthusiasm, … Continue reading
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Tagged Creative Entrepreneurship, delhi, entrepreneurship, Incubators, innovation, mentors, Pecha Kucha Night, startups
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Pecha Kucha #16 – Start Me Up: Entrepreneurship
I’m very pleased to announce the the 16th edition of Pecha Kucha Night Delhi will be held on the 28th of February, 2013. Start me up: Entrepreneurship Over the last few years, more and more young people have been gravitating … Continue reading
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Tagged Entrepreneuship, innovation, Pecha Kucha Night, startups
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Can India Learn to Innovate?
I just read an article written over a year ago, which suggested that an Indian innovation ecology was still a long way off, and may perhaps not manifest at all. The author articulated many different barriers to a culture of … Continue reading
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Tagged Design Public II, governance, India's innovation ecology, innovation, policies, startups
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On the Importance of Conversation
It’s been on my mind, as I’ve careered through Europe the past couple of weeks, that there is something elusive and important to be said about conversation, particularly formal ones, and how they shape the quality of our life. In … Continue reading
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Tagged collective, conversation, creativity, design public, government, India, innovation ecology, social sector, startups
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Breakout Sessions at the Design Public Conclave
The structure of the Design Public Conclave has always included a morning full of panel discussions which are then followed by an afternoon of breakout sessions. Participants split up into smaller groups and discuss a specific problem from an innovation … Continue reading
Where Should New Businesses Start?
Aditya Mishra is the founder of Headstart Foundation, a non-profit group focused on supporting and encouraging entrepreneurship. It has chapters in all major Indian cities, where it runs Start-Up Saturdays, meet-ups where people share stories of start-ups, and share links, … Continue reading
Nurturing Risk is Essential to Innovation
Jacob Koshy, in a recent WSJ article, wrote about how, despite the fact that India has been labelled as a nation of innovators and has embarked on a self-declared decade of innovation, this is only true in the loosest sense … Continue reading
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Tagged creativity, Design Public III, failure, government policy, innovation, jugaad, risk, startups, trust, WSJ
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