Innovation
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In 2021, consumers are craving products that deliver novelty and fun
After a year of buying boring staples in bulk, everything is about to change—and brands need to be ready to innovate
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Drones centralise vaccine storage, reduce expensive refrigerated shipping: Zipline's Dan Czerwonka
Medical delivery firm Zipline has been working in Ghana and Rwanda to transport Covid-19 and other vaccines. Its head of global regulatory affairs Dan Czerwonka speaks about the advantages and challenges of deploying unmanned aircraft systems in other countries
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How a clutch of startups is taking healthcare to rural India
Through innovation and pivots, these startups are helping rural India, which has little or no access to healthcare including, hospitals, doctors, diagnostics, or medicines, cope with the pandemic
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India's pharma companies are readying 900 million doses of Sputnik V. Can it pull the country out of its Covid-19 mess?
Amid concerns surrounding Sputnik V and the launch of a single-dose vaccine, Indian companies, including Hetero, Stelis, Biopharma and Gland Pharma are on track to make millions of doses of the Russian vaccine in a bid to alleviate the country's supply constraints
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Supporting long duration R&D programs to avoid time compression diseconomies
The first Covid-19 vaccine came in record time but it's easy to forget the decades of research into mRNA, which underpins the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
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Industry 4.0: India's urgent need to make the revolution green
As millions are poured into digital transformation to survive the pandemic economy, augmenting sustainability alongside digital capabilities is an economic, competitive and global opportunity for India's businesses. But regulations need to reflect intent
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Creating urgency around corporate innovation
What intrapreneurs in established firms must do to succeed
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This entrepreneur is building Covid care hospitals in rural areas of North India
Shriti Pandey, 29, is helping construct health care facilities at a faster pace in remote locations using sustainable materials derived from agricultural waste
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Future of Money—Digitalisation will help in value creation: Gaurav Deepak
As the pandemic brings technology and innovation to the core of business and daily life, the next decade will see about 150 million digital-first families in India, writes the cofounder and CEO of Avendus Capital
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TCS CEO sees decade-long opportunity as customers select cloud ecosystems
Cloud computing has gone well beyond renting servers and storage, and companies can now plug into artificial intelligence and sophisticated analytics
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Innovation no longer limited to professional adults in lab coats: Gitanjali Rao
15-year-old aspiring scientist and an innovator writes the future of innovation is not a vague idea; it is a consequence of collective empathy for each other's concerns and the will to solve them