Indian Vents

Innovator Prem Singh,  President award winner, has come out with several innovations like remote operated switch. See them at:
http://www.ipindiarobotic.com/product.html


Interested in partnering? Contact prem@ipindiarobotic.com

Techfest , organizing science & technology festival at IIT Mumbai has selected following themes for `Technopreneurship'  competition:

1. Clean Technology: In this category, plans focusing on making existing processes in the industry clean or innovating a new Clean technology/product all together will be entertained.
2. Cost effectiveness: This is the most important factor which a new product should consist of. The participants need to explain how their product or innovation can reduce the costs for the society.
3. Defy Convention: This category invites entries which by virtue of their brilliance can revolutionize a particular sector of industries or can have a social benefit.
for e.g:- A B-Plan which involves an exceptionally brilliant technological innovation like an artificial heart that could revolutionize the current market scene. last date for submission of Executive report is 10th Sept 2010.Details: http://www.techfest.org/competitions/technopreneurship/

The Edison Challenge this year is to design an innovative technological solution to address healthcare challenges faced in rural areas. Full time Bachelors / Masters / Doctoral students of accredited Indian educational institutions are eligible to participate. They need to come up with the solution for a specific problem faced by a Public Health Center (PHC) or Non-Government Organization (NGO) setup in rural India, which caters to about five hundred to one thousand houses. Major healthcare challenges identified are:

• Technology for Tuberculosis Diagnosis
• Infant Care Solution
• Early Screening for Cardiovascular Disease

The last date of submission of entries is 1st October 2010, 5:00 PM IST.Details: http://www.ge.com/jfwtc/edisonchallenge/challenge.html 

The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of up to $30 million, the Government of India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have formed a partnership to create a global competition to develop and deploy clean and efficient cookstoves. The competition will focus on the development of affordable and clean-burning cookstove technologies (and possibly delivery models) and is a part of the MNRE’s National Biomass Cookstoves Initiative, which was launched in December 2009. Details of the competition, including the announcement of the launch date, prize purse and competition guidelines are forthcoming.

Time Temperature Indicators, or TTIs, are printed labels that display a colored visual summary of the elapsed time-temperature history of a product in the cold chain. OnVuTM TTIs from BASF are low-cost, easy-to-use indicators that can be applied to food packages and medical products. They monitor the integrity of the cold chain, helping to ensure that refrigerated products keep fresh. Cold chain monitoring can be done that:

• Allow food producers and retailers to guarantee the freshness of their products
• Reduce food wastage along the cold chain
• Can reduce the occurrence of illness related to insufficiently refrigerated food
• Improve the safety of medical products like vaccines and blood products
• Reduce the number of medical products that have to be discarded because of a disruption in the cold chain.

Packaging firms can contact Martin Angehrn

BASF Venture Capital invests between one and five million Euros per venture in young start-up companies who stand out due to their ground-breaking technology.Start-ups working in these areas can contact them:

• Energy management: new materials and technologies to transform, safeguard or store energy
• Energy management: organic electronics for flexible displays, OLED-Lighting, Batteries, Organic photovoltaic (OPV), printable eletronics
• MedTech: surface treatment for medical systems
• Green Biotechnology
• Industrial Biotechnology for new products
• Raw Material Change: sustainable production of chemical intermediates based on renewable resources
• Nanotechnology: material with novel properties and applications.

They concluded 573 deals in 2008 and Indian start-ups had a share of 3%.Read the equity story.

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Grand Challenges Explorations fosters innovation in global health research. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $100 million to encourage scientists worldwide to expand the pipeline of ideas to fight our greatest health challenges. The grant program is open to anyone from any discipline, from student to tenured professor, and from any organization – colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for-profit companies. Round 6 is now open.The topics for Round 6 are:

• Design New Approaches to Cure HIV Infection;
• Create the Next Generation of Sanitation Technologies;
• The Poliovirus Endgame: Create Ways to Accelerate, Sustain and Monitor Eradication;
• Create Low-Cost Cell Phone-Based Applications for Priority Health Conditions;
• Create New Technologies to Improve the Health of Mothers and Newborns. 

Lat date November 2,2010URL:http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Pages/ApplicationInstructions.aspx

The Reverse Osmosis Subsurface Drip Irrigation System developed in Australia lets plants draw water through salt filters in irrigation pipes at their roots, using the tiny amounts of energy naturally createdby evaporation at their leaves.The genius of the system is that it can determine if there is enough suction energy created at the roots of plants by natural evaporation to draw the water through a reverse osmosis (semi-permeable) filter. While farmers already use reverse osmosis filters to remove salt from brackish water, until now the water has had to be pushed through the filter using high pressure. For the first time, there is a potential passive biological alternative to the existing high-cost, high-energy desalination options.For this Leslie and Sutton were awarded Eureka Prize. For Technology transfer contact: University of Sydney