The India Innovation Growth Program (IIGP) has been one of India’s longest standing public-private partnerships between Government of India’s Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Lockheed Martin Corporation. The goal of the Program is to build an innovation pipeline in India, and it has facilitated access to capital, industry...
MIT Grads Provide Biodegradable Sanitary Pads to Rural India
A startup, Saathi (meaning 'companion' in Hindi), founded by three graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate from Nirma University in India, is hoping to improve access and waste disposal of sanitary pads for women in rural India. 275,000,000 women in India cannot access pads because they are...
MIT, Thompson Design to Propose 18 Riverways in India
A joint venture between the Infrastructure Architecture Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the Boston-based Thompson Design Group has entered into a contract with the Inland Waterways Authority of India, a government body responsible for the development and regulation of inland waterways for shipping and navigation. The U.S.-based consultants...
Ducere Pioneers Smart Shoes for the Blind
Headquartered in India's southern city of Hyderabad, Ducere Technologies' Le-chal (Colloquial Hindi: take me along), the world's first interactive haptic footwear, gives vision to millions of visually challenged across the world to navigate through the sense of touch. Founded in 2011 by electrical engineers Anirudh Sharma, a graduate of the...