mamie25 - Ministry of Science & Technology Sanctions 530 New Projects in 2009-10: "A status report on 'Technology Business Incubation in India' was prepared and brought out which would help all relevant organizations, stakeholders and concerned people to shape their offerings for better overall effectiveness of the incubator program and help and build the desired ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship.
For International Collaboration in S&T about 300 Joint R&D projects and 20 Joint workshops/seminars were supported. More than 600 exchange visits took place for joint research, information exchange and joint use of facilities. 10 joint industrial R&D projects were approved under collaboration with Israel, Canada and Switzerland. Support to Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR), Indo-US S&T Forum (IUSSTF) and Indo-German S&T Centre (IGSTC) was continued."
Thursday, December 23, 2010
India launches Bhuvan, rival to Google Earth - Times Online
India launches Bhuvan, rival to Google Earth - Times Online: "India has launched a rival to Google Earth, the search engine's hugely popular satellite imagery service.
The online tool, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), has been developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). Its debut comes as India redoubles its efforts to reap profits from its 45-year-old state-sponsored space programme, criticised by some as a drain on a country where 700 million people live on $US2 a day or less.
The new site also follows in the slipstream of the country's first moon probe, Chandrayaan-1, which successfully reached the lunar surface last November.
Bhuvan uses a network of Indian satellites to create a high-resolution, birds-eye view of India that is accessible at no cost online and will compete with Google Earth.
The service has been specially designed to run smoothly on the low bandwidth internet connections that most Indian web users have to make do with. Even so, attempts by The Times to access yesterday morning failed - possibly because of a flood of users eager to test the site."
The online tool, dubbed Bhuvan (Sanskrit for Earth), has been developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro). Its debut comes as India redoubles its efforts to reap profits from its 45-year-old state-sponsored space programme, criticised by some as a drain on a country where 700 million people live on $US2 a day or less.
The new site also follows in the slipstream of the country's first moon probe, Chandrayaan-1, which successfully reached the lunar surface last November.
Bhuvan uses a network of Indian satellites to create a high-resolution, birds-eye view of India that is accessible at no cost online and will compete with Google Earth.
The service has been specially designed to run smoothly on the low bandwidth internet connections that most Indian web users have to make do with. Even so, attempts by The Times to access yesterday morning failed - possibly because of a flood of users eager to test the site."
Bonjour Planet Earth: India launches Switzerland's first satellite...
Bonjour Planet Earth: India launches Switzerland's first satellite...: "India launches Switzerland's first satellite...
SwissCube, a satellite designed entirely by engineering students, has been successfully launched from a site in India. It is Switzerland's first home-grown satellite.
The mission of the gift box-sized device is to map airglow, the faint bands of green and mauve light caused when the sun's high-energy radiation collides with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere.
'Mission accomplished,' said an emotional Muriel Noca, project coordinator at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). 'I can't believe how smoothly it went as so many things can go wrong.'"
SwissCube, a satellite designed entirely by engineering students, has been successfully launched from a site in India. It is Switzerland's first home-grown satellite.
The mission of the gift box-sized device is to map airglow, the faint bands of green and mauve light caused when the sun's high-energy radiation collides with atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere.
'Mission accomplished,' said an emotional Muriel Noca, project coordinator at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). 'I can't believe how smoothly it went as so many things can go wrong.'"
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Lviv Regional Innovation Development Policy
Lviv Regional Innovation Development Policy: "Duration: November 2010—February 2012
According to the World Economic Forum rating in 2009, Ukraine occupied the 52nd place in the area of forming factors for innovative development; 65th place in the area of new technologies; and 114th out of 134 countries in intellectual property rights production. In Ukraine the number of innovatively active businesses is decreasing, along with lower performance of high technology industries. These circumstances have a major negative impact on the competiveness of the national economy. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine admits that the basic foundations of national public policy in the area of national innovation system have not yet been laid."
According to the World Economic Forum rating in 2009, Ukraine occupied the 52nd place in the area of forming factors for innovative development; 65th place in the area of new technologies; and 114th out of 134 countries in intellectual property rights production. In Ukraine the number of innovatively active businesses is decreasing, along with lower performance of high technology industries. These circumstances have a major negative impact on the competiveness of the national economy. The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine admits that the basic foundations of national public policy in the area of national innovation system have not yet been laid."
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Building knowledge-based economies: It’s difficult but not impossible - Arab News
Building knowledge-based economies: It’s difficult but not impossible - Arab News: "Building knowledge-based economies: It’s difficult but not impossible
By MOHAMED A. RAMADY
Published: Dec 20, 2010 23:54 Updated: Dec 21, 2010 00:03
The new buzzword now is aspiring to transform traditional manufacturing and service economies to “knowledge based” ones. The fever has caught on to natural resource endowed economies, which see some aspiring to diversify their single resource economic base. However, simply stating that a country is moving toward a knowledge-based economic foundation and structure is easier said then done, as educational, bureaucratic and social inertia can be insurmountable obstacles. How these are willingly changed and accepted by the population at large is a critical factor for success."
By MOHAMED A. RAMADY
Published: Dec 20, 2010 23:54 Updated: Dec 21, 2010 00:03
The new buzzword now is aspiring to transform traditional manufacturing and service economies to “knowledge based” ones. The fever has caught on to natural resource endowed economies, which see some aspiring to diversify their single resource economic base. However, simply stating that a country is moving toward a knowledge-based economic foundation and structure is easier said then done, as educational, bureaucratic and social inertia can be insurmountable obstacles. How these are willingly changed and accepted by the population at large is a critical factor for success."
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