Several IISc incubated startups have developed niche solutions to contain the Covid-19 outbreak and better prepare frontline workers to combat it. While innovation has been a hot topic in some of India’s higher education institutes, it has become more relevant than ever during this pandemic. Take for instance, The Society for Innovation and Development (SID), […]

Startups focused on scientific and technological innovation are on the uptick. It’s time private industry and money stepped up to the plate Bengaluru: Popular wisdom has it that India has always had an abundance of trained talent but has been a laggard nation when it comes to product innovation. This is especially true with innovation […]

Many of the start-ups at Society for Innovation and Development, based at IISc, have a longer investment horizon than today’s venture capitalists want to bother with Towards the end of his career, Albert Einstein said: “One thing I have learned in a long life: That all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and […]

Undoubtedly, raising funds for business ventures is a herculean task given the fact that the entire process requires adaptation of lateral, unconventional approaches, to connect rightly with investors to get them to believe in the entrepreneurial models of startups. Startup owners rightfully agree that it is no cakewalk when it comes to finding the right […]

IISc’s Society for Innovation & Development incubates technology start-ups In 1991, the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, set up Society for Innovation and Development to promote collaboration with industry. In 2005, the society set up Indian Scientific Innovation Company, a not-for-profit outfit, to incubate start-ups. The incubator has about 6,000 sq ft of space, which […]

Things started moving about 10 years ago, when the Department of Electronics and Information Technology provided up to Rs 2 crore to academic institutions to promote entrepreneurship. Some of the big universities were already in the game on their own. At IIT Madras, electrical engineering professor Ashok Jhunjhunwala had set up Midas in the late […]

BENGALURU: The Indian Institute of Science(IISc), which last year put in place the country’s first indigenous smart factory, moving from automation to autonomy, is expanding the facility. The expansion is expected to help future incubations use the facility and aid new research. While the existing smart factory, which was seed funded by The Boeing Company […]

At 4 feet, 11 inches, Neha Satak from Beawar in Rajasthan stands tall in the crowd of young entrepreneurs today. Giving up promising prospects in the US, she returned to set up a space technology company out of India in 2014. Astrome Technologies, the company she started with Prasad HL Bhat, Chairman and CTO, is […]

Most of the start-ups are based on moonshot ideas, including drones to transport organs and devices for diagnosing diseases Better known for his former role as the programme director and chief designer of India’s indigenous light combat aircraft (LCA), 75-year-old Kota Harinarayana is the founder-chairman of General Aeronautics, an Indian Institute of Science (IISc) incubated […]

Fathima Benazir and Alex Paul used to be friends at school in Ooty, but then lost touch. Benazir studied biochemistry, while Paul took the engineering route to become director of IT service management at Zoho, where he spent close to 13 years. When they eventually reconnected over calls, both were ready to try something new. […]