9th May 2017 Chennai, India
In March, I had the absolute delight of visiting India for the first time in my life and the whole week was an adventure, both personally and commercially. Experiencing the Indian way of life, the hospitality and incredible proactivity to doing business were all eye-opening, as was the traffic! I help run Innovation Birmingham, the […]
4th March 2016 Bangalore, India
One of the UK’s brightest (quite literally) and revolutionary technological developments is Light Fidelity or LiFi. Invented by Professor Harald Haas, LiFi has the power to change how we access and transmit data in offices and home around the world. You can read more about my visit to Prof. Haas’s lab in the University of […]
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9th February 2015 New Delhi, India
Last month I wrote a blog about the exciting events the SIN India team have been involved in. The regional SIN IMEA conference in Mumbai was an excellent venue for all ‘SINners’ to get orientated with the various collaborations and projects SIN is kicking off with this year! Although its early days, the SIN events […]
2nd February 2015 Bangalore, India
Guest blog by Dr Shailendra Vyakarnam is the Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship Learning, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge The Indian biotech sector is set to grow. This has been clearly stated by the Dept. of Biotechnology and numerous agencies. Resources are being allocated for this purpose and the evidence of this can be seen when […]
29th October 2014 Mumbai, India
From experience I can say that it is relatively easy to put together a workshop or an event, but the real challenge actually lies in following up on doing what we said we’d do; capturing the essence of what comes out of the discussions and then maintaining the relationships with stakeholders and partners with whom […]
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7th March 2014 New Delhi, India
Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, was in Bangalore last week. I caught up with him in the margins of an alumni event he was hosting at the British Library. Welcome to India, can I ask why you’re here? Specifically, my visit coincides with a five day conference in […]
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28th October 2013 Bangalore, India
We had the pleasure of working with Accelerator India, C-CAMP and the Electronics, Sensors and Photonics Knowledge Transfer Network on a workshop in Bangalore on Digital Innovations in Healthcare. We considered this an area of great potential for future UK-India collaborations. It may also be an area where companies in both countries could bid into […]
20th September 2013 New Delhi, India
Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, was in India this week, visiting institutions in Delhi, Bangalore and Mumbai. Among other calls in Bangalore, he launched our new prize for biotech businesses to visit Cambridge and had several discussions to take forward the Bangalore Cambridge Innovation Network. I caught up […]
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26th June 2013 Bangalore, India
About 40 years ago, the famous Indian Social Scientist Prof. V K R V Rao said “I now want to utilise some of my time in building up a third institution in the field of social sciences, in addition to the two which I have helped to build, namely, the Delhi School of Economics and […]
20th June 2013 New Delhi, India
Sam Pitroda, as Chair of the National Innovation Council of India, wrote to the Chief Ministers of each State in 2010 suggesting they set up their own Innovation Council to “drive the innovation agenda… and harness the core competencies, local talent, resources and capabilities to create new opportunities” in their State. To date, 22 States […]