Special Report
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Flipkart sale brings joy to investors
Experts believe the stellar returns clocked by Flipkart investors is a reason to rejoice, but cautions that there aren't many companies of Flipkart's scale yet
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Walmart takes over Flipkart for $16 billion; Sachin Bansal to exit
The deal values the Indian ecommerce major at $20.8 billion and includes a $2 billion equity investment, enlarging its war chest to take on rivals Amazon and Alibaba
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Cooking up a storm
The recent 'fake cheese' video is among a spate of incidents that threatens to derail the QSR industry that was just about getting its act together
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Health care innovations: Designed to save lives
From infant warmers to contraceptive insertion devices, design firms are improving health care delivery with affordable, portable innovations
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IIT-Madras: Indian Institute of Innovation
With incubators for deep tech startups, funding for students and support for corporate R&D, the institute is fostering an entire ecosystem of cutting-edge ideas
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Ideas Inc: How India fares on the innovation index
The country lags behind compared with other nations
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Most innovations are scouted by volunteers: Anil K Gupta
The founder of Honey Bee Network talks about supporting and encouraging grassroots innovations
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Biotech's unlikely hero: The government
The department of biotechnology has funded and supported critical research and startups, while engaging with private industry
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We need to accept failure to progress: Samuel West
The founder of Sweden's Museum of Failure on highlighting the ideas that didn't make it and the merits of seeing the big boys fail
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Digibank: Riding the digital wave
India's first fully digital bank, DBS India, continues to innovate, both with technology and products
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There are two kinds of academia: Ashok Jhunjhunwala
The IIT-Madras veteran says that most academia, happy so far to not go beyond lab demos, are slowly warming up to industry tie-ups