India claims to be one of the fastest growing economies in the world, yet there is a grave question marks on the percolation of its economic and social benefits to that proportion of population living below poverty line. Over 500 million Indians live below poverty line of $1.25 a day. To put it simply, the [...]
Entrepreneurship Cell is searching for innovative and enterprising ideas through its Business Plan competitions. Our competitions provide a platform for students to get excellent professional mentorship from our experienced, varied and distinguished mentor pool, and to showcase their ideas in front of Venture Capitalists, Angel Investors and Industry Leaders. If you want to turn your idea [...]
Villgro (formerly known as Rural Innovations Network) is hosting the “UNCONVENTION - Where Path Breakers Meet Path Makers” in Chennai on December 10-12, 2009. As we wrote about before, a business plan competition called Wantrapreneur was held to select finalists, who will present one final time before the awards are announced. Besides the business plan competition and awards, the [...]
The ThinkChange India staff is committed to providing our readers with interviews with people we believe are at the brink of something special but have for the most part been overlooked by the mainstream media. Readers will be able to see other conversations under our TC-I Changemakers tag. In this edition TCI-changemaker focuses on the [...]
Villgro (formerly Rural Innovations Network) is sponsoring a new business plan competition for social entrepreneurs called Wantrapreneur. The competition is specifically aimed at innovations and solutions that benefit the rural poor. Wantrapreneur is all about identifying ideas that have the potential to transform lives and nurturing them to become market-ready products and services. The competition [...]
AVENUES is the Annual International Business festival of Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management (SJMSOM), IIT Bombay AVENUES 2009(31st Oct – 1st Nov) represents our relentless commitment towards the promise to attain the balance of all the three aspects (People, Planet and Profit) of business excellence. Over two days of frenzied activity, participants comprising students, [...]
The Global Social Venture Competition, a MBA social venture competition that partners several different universities around the world, wrapped up this past weekend at UC Berkeley Haas Business School. The GSVC is one of the most competitive gatherings in the social enterprise world, bringing together business plans that look at both profit and social impact. [...]
Doodh Bhandar (DB), a plan focused on revolutionizing milk production in rural India, has reached the finals of the Harvard Business School (HBS) Business Plan Contest in the Social Enterprise track. Cattle are one of the most important assets for rural families in India and an improvement in their productivity will have a significant socio-economic [...]
Shital had written in last November about Sankalp 2009, a business plan competiton for Medium, Small and Micro Enterprises (MSMEs) organized by India Development Gateway, in partnership with Rural Innovations Network (RIN) and National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD). Turns out the business plan competition has now developed into India’s first ever Social Enterprise [...]
In what appears to be a natural marriage, Intellecap (featured on TC-I numerous times here) has created a partnership between two of its programs. Intellecap, whose goal is to leverage innovative business solutions for low-income markets, held last week the third annual Srijan (Sanskrit for creativity) Business Plan Competition. Recognizing that many of these ventures [...]
