INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT
ET Leadership Excellence Awards 2024 honours the leadership and innovative prowess of these trailblazing entrepreneurs
The ET Leadership Excellence Award at Holiday Inn Lucknow Airport on June 23, 2024, honored 39 leaders. Asim Arun and Ronit Roy presented awards. Sudhir Mishra, Yawer Ali Shah, and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor spoke. Directed by Shiv Shankar Awasthi, the event emphasized gratitude, dedication, and celebrated excellence, unity, and hard work in leadership.
Celebrating the inspiring journeys of four small business innovators who dared to dream big
Entrepreneurs like Yashovardhan Sharma, Kanak Deka, Biju Kuriakose, and Reena Chauhan embody resilience and innovation in India's MSME landscape. Through programs like Walmart Vriddhi, these entrepreneurs thrive, preserving heritage, empowering communities, and shaping a brighter future for Indian households with unique products and sustainable practices.
"Rewards for doing business in India are significant": Alexander Slater, MD USIBC
In the debut episode of the new podcast series "Doing Business in India," Jonathan Hymer, the Minister Counsellor for Commercial Affairs at the United States Embassy in New Delhi, welcomed Alexander Slater, the Managing Director of the US India Business Council, to discuss the evolving business landscape in India post-pandemic.
Out of school, into startups: Young founders are on the rise, ready to even pause studies to chase their entrepreneurial dreams
In 2023, Ayush Pathak and Aryan Sharma founded Induced, assisting businesses in automating workflows with AI. Apoorv Singh launched Connect AI with Asta. Himanshu Rajpurohit's startup, Strangify, provides corporate mental health solutions. Dyumna Madan's ProjectClay helps students find career paths.
Meet India's brightest young minds: Forbes unveils '30 under 30' Asia list
Forbes recently unveiled its 9th edition of the "30 Under 30 Asia" list, showcasing young leaders and innovators under 30 across the Asia-Pacific region. Among the Indian talents are Pavithra Chari of Shadow and Light, known for musical prowess, and Arpan Kumar Chandel, aka King, a rapper. Kush Jain co-founded ORama AI, aiding the visually impaired in learning Braille. Kunal Aggarwal's Credflow offers cashflow management for SMEs, while Aalesh Avlani's Credit Wise Capital provides innovative motorcycle loans. These young Indians represent diverse fields and highlight exceptional talent and entrepreneurial spirit.
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Umesh Pagariya, Director of Pagaria Group, pioneers family legacy with his business acumen
Umesh Pagariya, torchbearer of Pagariya Group, upholds family traditions with visionary innovation in Jalgaon, rooted in Marwari heritage. Strategic acquisitions and ventures in safety equipment and FMCG lead to global expansion.
Startup Mahakumbh: PM Modi says India will become the world leader in AI
Startup Mahakumbh: PM Modi lauded India's youth's entrepreneurial spirit and the flourishing startup ecosystem on the last day of Startup Mahakumbh event, emphasising government support for innovative ideas, funding channels, incubators, IT services growth, AI strength, job creator mindset, women leading startups, and Rs 1 lakh crore fund.
ET Business Awards 2024: A celebration of success, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit
Bengaluru, the Silicon Valley of India, celebrates SMEs at the ET Business Awards 2024. The event, with chief guest Tapsee Pannu and Dr. Aneesh Vidyashankar's performance, honors exemplary business models, fostering entrepreneurial inspiration and success.
Centre announces '100 Cube' Odisha startup plan to help establish hundred startups of ₹100 crore valuation each by 2036
The '100 Cube' initiative aligns with the Modi government's 'Purvodaya' vision, which focuses on boosting development in the eastern states. By supporting the establishment of high-value startups in Odisha, the government aims to drive economic growth and opportunities in the region.
India marching up the ladder of Draper Innovation Index as things get better and better: Tim Draper
“India has just been marching forward and the US is clinging to the top spot but just by a hair. A lot of countries that are also very good for innovators are the UK, Singapore, Switzerland, Canada and a lot of the countries in Northern Europe. But countries like India and some of the countries in Latin America are marching up. It is a race to see which country is the freest and that will be where most of the great innovators come from.”
ET 30 Future Unicorns of Delhi-NCR report launched at the ET Soonicorns Summit 2023: The next league of disruptors, innovators and category creators forging sustainable growth
At the Delhi-NCR edition of the ET Soonicorns Summit 2023, eminent personalities and ET Editors took the stage to unveil the ET 30 Future Unicorns of Delhi-NCR report, produced in partnership with venture intelligence firm Tracxn. A storehouse of information, insights and analysis, the report is a comprehensive resource on the 30 high-growth soonicorns, positioned to power sustainable growth across sectors and build from India for the world.
ET Soonicorns Summit 2023 Delhi-NCR: Spotlighting future unicorns, tech evolution, startup IPOs, innovation in deeptech & cleantech sectors, and more
With over 35 speakers, including 30 unicorns and soonicorns, across 25 sessions and 10 diverse tracks, the Delhi-NCR edition of ET Soonicorns Summit 2023 paved the way for the next wave of India's innovation economy. The event also featured a report launch and multiple startup showcases, making it a holistic platform for tracking new frontiers of growth in the startup-tech ecosystem.
How family businesses in India are driving innovation and economic growth
Family businesses in India are driving innovation and economic growth by blending tradition with modernity. These businesses, which often operate in sectors like manufacturing, textiles, agriculture, and retail, are embracing new-age technology and investing heavily in research and development. They are also collaborating with start-ups and academia to accelerate innovation efforts. Family businesses play a significant role in job creation and fostering economic growth, particularly in rural areas.
India’s individual enterprise: A system needs to be evolved to empower and enable small entrepreneurs
While one routinely hears stories of small businesses becoming big, these are not the real big story. There are a million or more small businesses that won’t ever list. They will remain privately owned by their proprietors, who will innovate and modernise, strategise and specialise, but remain unlisted.
Discover Dubai's entrepreneurial spirit in the latest episode of 'Live, Work, and Play in Dubai’ with co-founder of Meril Aquaponics, Rohit Bachani
In the most recent episode of "Live, Work, and Play in Dubai," co-founder of Meril Aquaponics Rohit Bachani shares insights into the entrepreneurial culture of Dubai.
Entrepreneurial Mindset in Leadership: Balancing Risk and Innovation Strategy
In today's business landscape, an entrepreneurial mindset in leadership is crucial for sustained growth and success. This mindset goes beyond entrepreneurship and includes traits such as resilience, adaptability, and creativity. Effective leaders balance risk and innovation by encouraging calculated risk-taking that aligns with organizational goals.
Government of Odisha approves innovation grant, to fund 10 startups
The grant is approved by the Government of Odisha for 10 startups to nurture innovation and entrepreneurship in the state. The 10 selected startups include Axonotics, EME Technologies, Foliyoo Technologies etc.
Cultivating innovation: The role of IBC in nurturing India's entrepreneurial ecosystem
The IBC has established a structured framework for resolving insolvency, encouraging collaboration between creditors and debtors to seek mutually beneficial resolutions.
How entrepreneurship cells in colleges can create studentpreneurs in India
The aim should be to inculcate skills in students personal and professional lives, instilling a permanent change in their behavior to focus on problem-solving, out-of-the-box thinking, experimenting, and taking calculated risks.
India's GCCs -- evolving from captives to capability centres
Captive centres are no longer captive to the needs of cost control, they are conceptualising, developing and executing product strategies straight out of India. Sai Ishwarbharath gives you the details
Innovation is key to sustainable transformation: Werner Baumann, CEO, Bayer AG
"Innovation and collaboration are key to sustainable transformation. But if you look specifically at the “how” of transformation in a company, I would like to add three other aspects based on our experience at Bayer: strategy, accountability and incentivization."
How to build a unified innovation ecosystem
An inclusive and thriving innovation ecosystem should embrace a global worldview to innovate at scale and speed.
Innovations from Indian market helping us improve retail globally: Walmart International CEO
Speaking at the Converge@Walmart event, McKenna said learnings from the Indian operations have helped Walmart make improvements in its existing businesses as well as given it new business ideas that the Bentonville major has started applying globally.
Kunal Bahl's 5-yr-old daughter has an entrepreneurial streak, her big business idea - fox nut cakes
NASSCOM President said she likes how the young entrepreneur thinks.
IIT Delhi to set up design and innovation lab for rural entrepreneurs
The Indian Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi today said in a release that it has partnered with the Common Services Center (CSC) Academy under the Union Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to set up a design and innovation lab aimed at helping rural entrepreneurs.
Innovation, entrepreneurial spirit key to rebuild India say Ronnie Screwvala, CP Gurnani at ET-ILC meet
The revenue of entrepreneurial companies which declined by close to 70% from March to April this year is now almost back to March levels because of measures instituted by these companies.
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