India’s new e-waste rules require businesses to recycle 80 per cent by 2025. While earlier the stress was on collection targets, the draft rules, which have been floated for public comments and may come into effect later this year, emphasise Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), recycling and trading, which is in tandem with the government’s objective...
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...
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 world of mobility is rapidly transitioning towards electric and lithium is being seen as the magical metal to facilitate the swift change from fossil fuels. This transition is being fuelled both by impending exhaustion of fossil fuels by end of the century and their detrimental impact on environment, leading to one of the most...
Quantum computing has captured imagination of scientists for several decades. It is only in recent times that the much-talked area is witnessing attention from deep-pocketed investors, too. Although last year’s investment was 1.02 billion USD into the quantum computing industry, it is more than those of the three previous years combined. With over 200 start-ups now,...
Welcome to the world of content creators, entrepreneurs, and creator economy. Well, creator economy is not a recent concept. Its origins date back to 1997 when some artists uploaded their works on DevianArt. It was a very limited market back then and hence the concept was nascent. This offshoot was coming and going with all...
The world is moving fast from energy sources based on fossil fuels to renewable ones. Although renewable sources like solar and wind energy are fast becoming the choice of deployments globally, nuclear energy remains one of the biggest untapped sources of renewable energy. With technological progress, micro-reactors or smaller nuclear power options have surfaced as...