India’s entrepreneurial spirit is gaining momentum with the rapidly expanding start-up ecosystem, the third-largest in the world after the US and China, according to the recently released Economic Survey 2021-22. Government-backing along with increased investor confidence and technology breakthroughs have transformed the start-up scene with the total number of such recognised entities in the country...
Blue Economy, the sixth dimension of the vision for ‘New India by 2030’, can help the country rewrite its growth story post-pandemic. A sunrise sector, it is centered around oceans for economic activities, ranging from shipping, offshore oil and gas, and fishing to tourism. This economic philosophy was first introduced by Prof Gunter Paul in...
Businesses have been reinventing means and accelerating strategies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Similarly, the pandemic could be the launching point for a massive acceleration in medical innovation, with biology meeting technology in new ways. Biotech is helping to heal the world by harnessing nature’s own toolbox and using our own genetic makeup while...
Falling interest rates pushed more money from bonds to equities, especially in start-ups in the past two years, fuelling their valuations manifold. Now, when the central banks all over the world are beginning to tighten interest rates to curb inflation, rising interest rates may see a reversal in their fortunes if not tackled properly. On...
We have been conversant with the engaging worlds of e-commerce and social media…however imagine if they co-exist with each other? Imagine if brands or SME’s or MSME’s or micro entrepreneurs could use these two weapons to get the best of both worlds. Social commerce is the name, harnessing social media as a medium to sell...
Recall those days and the hype around the of consumption of plastics bottles v/s the papers cups at schools, colleges, offices, cinemas and so on! Environmental enthusiasts permeated the notion of eradicating the use of paper cups every time you wished to quench your thirst. Refilling your plastic or glass bottles were preferable alternatives. At...
The metaverse is in full swing as individuals around the world try to ascertain the mystical world and what it has in store for us. I had mentioned previously in one of my blogs that the metaverse can be synonymous to Earth 2.0; individuals will have the ability to create their same reality virtually or...
In his path-breaking book Zero to One, Peter Thiel has defined progress with an example beautifully – if we take one typewriter and build a hundred, it is horizontal progress i.e. One to Many. Instead, from the typewriter we are able to build a word processor we have made vertical progress, Zero to One. While...
India rolled out its mega multi-billion-dollar capital support and production-linked incentive (PLI) In November 2021 to push manufacturing of semiconductors. This was at a time when the global supply chain disruption led to shortage of chips across industries. Importance of semiconductors can be gauged by the fact that 169 industries were impacted due to its...
The year 2021 will be remembered as a landmark year for India’s start-up ecosystem with USD 38 billion fund-flow. Unleashing of the country’s entrepreneurial zeal catapulted it to become the third largest start-up ecosystem globally, behind USA and China. The tsunami of fund flows shattered all previous records and was over three times the USD...