Three scientists at RJ Lee Group, Inc., co-authored an article on the integration of nanotechnology that will be published in the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Nanotechnology. RJ Lee Group's Dr. Kristin L. Bunker, Ms. Julianne Wolfe, and Dr. Linxian Wu wrote the article, entitled “Integrating Nanotechnology into the Life Sciences: Lessons Learned.” It will be published in ...
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Jugaad innovators don't plan - they improvise By demonstrating agility, jugaad innovators can deal with unanticipated challenges faster and seize unexpected opportunities-such as changing customer needs-more swiftly than their competitors Jugaad Innovation / Jun 04, 2012, 00:45 IST
Emerging markets are characterized by high volatility. Economic circumstances are constantly changing. Growth rates are often in double digits, and the competitive landscape is often shifting. New laws and regulations are constantly being put into place, and policy is constantly evolving. So jugaad innovators need to experiment as they go along and be willing to try multiple options, rather than adopting one approach at the start and sticking to it thereafter. Unlike their counterparts in Silicon Valley, jugaad innovators do not attempt to work everything out in advance or rely on a business plan to determine the mid- to long-term roadmap for their new ventures. Instead, they improvise their next course of action as circumstances change, and they do so from within a framework of deep knowledge and passion. Their approach is in fact more akin to a jazz band than to an orchestra: everything is improvised, fluid, and dynamic. As such, their strategies are organic and emergent rather than predetermined. Jugaad innovators flexible thinkingtheir ability to improviseserves them especially well when confronted with adversity.
Given their propensity for improvisation, jugaad innovators dont rely on forecasting tools like scenario planning, as many companies do, to assess future risks. They believe in Murphys Lawanything that can go wrong will go wrongso whats the point of anticipating every single obstacle that might appear down the road? Jugaad innovators dont have a Plan B, let alone a Plan C. Rather, when confronted with an unexpected hindrance, they rely on their innate ability to improvise an effective solution to overcome it, given the circumstances at that time.
In 2007, however, local farmers began protesting against the acquisition of land for the factory. The dispute rapidly escalated into a political issue and caught Tata Motors off guard. As the protests intensified through 2008, Ravi Kant, then managing director of Tata Motors (and later its non-executive vice chairman) made a bold decision. He set aside his firms prior manufacturing plans and swiftly shifted the production of the Nano to Sanand, in the investor-friendly state of Gujarat, on the other side of the country. He didnt hire a management consultant to advise him on the move; he just trusted his instinct that this was the right thing to do, given the circumstances. In just fourteen months (compared to the expected twenty-eight months for the Singur plant), Tata Motors built a new factory in Sanand, Gujarat. The new factory began production of Nanos in June 2010.
One year later, Ravi Kant and his team had to demonstrate the ability to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances yet again: the Nanos werent selling as well as expected. Monthly sales had fallen well below the optimistic forecast of twenty thousand units. Rather than being disappointed by the Nanos lackluster performance, Tata Motors leadership used this early market feedback to improvise a plan to shore up sales. Ratan Tata originally envisioned a distributed supply chain model whereby Tata Motors would dispatch flat packs to local entrepreneurs across the country, who would do the final assembly of Nanos close to customers thus creating gainful employment in local communities. With flagging sales, however, this original vision had to be revised: Tata Motors executives went back to the drawing board and quickly revamped Nanos logistics network to a more straightforward one, which involved manufacture and assembly at one site in Gujarat, and distribution through a traditional dealer network throughout the country. But again Tata Motors hit a snag: rural customers such as farmers were not venturing into Tata Motors showrooms in small towns. Among other things, they felt intimidated by dealers dressed in suits and ties.
This setback led Tata Motors management to redesign their rural showrooms to make them more informal-for example by staffing them with casually attired salesmen who could pitch the Nano to Indian farmers over a cup of chai. Tata Motors also launched a nationwide TV campaign and began offering consumer financing at highly attractive rates to lure frugal Indian consumers. By constantly adapting and refining its business modeland implementing changes within weeks, not monthsTata Motors invigorated sales of the Nano, which, although still lower than expected, are gradually beginning to pick up. Indeed, it is very likely that the future success of the car will depend on more such quick adaptation and flexible thinking by the managers of Tata Motors.
Jugaad innovators experiment with multiple ways to reach a goal Unpredictability is the norm in emerging markets. Because of diversity and rapid change, it is hard to predict how consumers will respond to new products and services-and how new business strategies will perform in, say, rural markets. Jugaad innovators may have a single-minded vision of where they want to get to, but they must be willing to try different paths to get there. Specifically, they must be willing to keep experimenting in order to attain their goalsand they must be flexible enough to quickly switch from one path to another along the way.
Dr Mohan, for instance, experimented with a number of different ways to frugally yet effectively engage rural communities both as consumers (patients) and employees. When he first sent his expensive technicians from his city hospital to work in remote villages, he found that these techniciansalthough highly competentwould soon leave, wanting to return to city life. Learning this, he developed a training curriculum in his city hospital to impart to young men and women from villages the basic skills they need as healthcare workers. After about three months, these newly trained healthcare professionals would return to their rural homes, where they were more likely to want to remain. This in turn helped reduce costs and turnover in Dr Mohans model. Dr Mohan had a similar experience with his attempts to work with non-traditional partners to develop a cost-effective tele-medicine platform. Although he initially contemplated partnering with more typicaland expensivetechnology providers, Dr Mohan eventually linked up with ISRO, which provides his roaming tele-medicine van with a free satellite uplink to his clinic in the city of Chennai.
Jugaad innovators act with speed and agility In emerging markets, new threats and opportunities can emerge from out of the blue. This forces jugaad innovators to not only think but also act flexibly. By demonstrating agility, jugaad innovators can deal with unanticipated challenges faster and seize unexpected opportunitiessuch as changing customer needsmore swiftly than their competitors. Zhang Ruimin is one such jugaad innovator who thinks and acts quickly.
Zhang, is the CEO of Haier, a Chinese consumer goods company that is making appliance makers like GE and Whirlpool nervous. Under Zhangs leadership, Haier has, in the space of a decade, made huge inroads into North American and European markets by selling quality appliances at lower prices than those of Western suppliers like Whirlpool and GE. Armed with its value for money strategy, Haier is disrupting the consumer goods market not only in mainstream segments like air-conditioners and washing machines, but also in niche segments like wine coolers. For instance, Haier launched a $704 (Rs 35,200) wine cooler that is less than half the cost of industry leader La Sommelires product. Within two years of this launch, Haier has grown the market by a whopping 10,000 percent and now controls 60 percent of the US market by value. By leveraging its value for money strategy, Haier has also rapidly established a strong presence in the Indian home appliances market, where it commands 8 percent of market share. In coming years, Haier aims to grow its Indian market share to at least 10 percent and achieve Rs 4,500 crore in revenue and become one of the top five brands in India by 2014.
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By Our Staff Reporter Bhopal, June 5 Rising student entrepreneurs, innovators and scientists from around the world were recognized today as Intel Corporation and Society for Science & the Public announced the top winners of the worlds largest high school science research competition, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. Gargi Pare from Ujjain won the Second Award from the LANXESS Corporation for her project on Nano Zero Valent Iron: solution for coloured wastewater remediation. We congratulate Gargi Pare and all the students from India on their success at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, said Ashutosh Chadha, Director Corporate Affairs Group, Intel South Asia. Gargi and all the other finalists this week, further demonstrate how a background of STEM (science, engineering, technology, and math) education creates the breeding ground for creativity and ingenuity that will help solve the pressing issues of the future. This year, more than 1,500 young scientists were selected to compete in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. They were selected from 446 affiliate fairs in approximately 70 countries, regions and territories. In addition to the winners mentioned above, more than 400 finalists received awards and prizes for their groundbreaking work. Awards included 17 Best of Category winners who each received a $5,000 prize. The Intel Foundation also awarded a $1,000 grant to each winners school and to the affiliated fair they represent. Society for Science & the Public, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education, owns and has administered the International Science and Engineering Fair since its inception in 1950, as the National Science Fair. The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair finalists are selected annually from hundreds of affiliated fairs around the world. Their projects are then evaluated onsite by more than 1,200 judges from nearly every scientific discipline, each with a Ph.D. or the equivalent of six years of related professional experience in one of the scientific disciplines.
The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2012 is funded jointly by Intel and the Intel Foundation with additional awards and support from dozens of other corporate, academic, governmental and science-focused organizations.
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President Barack Obama, accompanied by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, holds a silicon wafer, as they tour the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at State University of New York at Albany's Nano-Tech complex, Tuesday, May 8, 2012, in Albany, N.Y., with Chris Borst, assistant V.P. for Engineering and Integration.
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(Phys.org) -- Many organic contaminants in the air and in drinking water need to be detected at very low-level concentrations. Research published by the laboratory of Prashant V. Kamat, the John A. Zahm Professor of Science at the University of Notre Dame, could be beneficial in detecting those contaminants.
The Kamat laboratory uses Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy to make use of silver nanoparticles to increase the sensitivity limit of chemical detection. Researchers in this study have prepared a semiconductor-graphene-metal film that has distinct advantages: The absorption of organic molecules on the films graphene surface increases the local contaminant concentration adjacent to silver nanoparticles.
The researchers have investigated the use of graphene oxide films in which the semiconductor titanium dioxide (TiO2) and metal nanoparticles are deposited on opposite sides of the graphene surface. We are currently working toward the detection of environmental contaminants at even lower levels, Kamat says. Careful control of metal size and loading will be the key to optimize strips for testing water quality.
Under UV illumination, the electrons from TiO2 are captured by the graphene oxide film and shuttled across the film to reduce metal ions into metal nanoparticles. This electron-hopping process across the graphene oxide film allows the design of a side-separated semiconductor-metal nanoparticle architecture.
Graphene, a two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, is known for its remarkable mechanical strength, very high thermal and electrical conductivity and broad variety of applications. While the conducting properties of graphene sheets deposited on various substrates are well understood, the Kamat group has demonstrated that the transport of electrons is not limited to the 2-D plane. Here, the hopping of electrons from one side of the graphene allows for the side-selective deposition of silver nanoparticles.
Another potential application is in the area of photocatalytic generation of solar fuels," Kamat says. "For example, having semiconductor nanoparticles on one side of a graphene sheet and a metal catalyst on the other side, one can create a hybrid assembly that can selectively split water into oxygen and hydrogen.
More information: The paper, Electron Hopping Through Single-to-Few-Layer Grapheme Oxide Films: Side-Selective Photocatalytic Deposition of Metal Nanoparticles, was published recently in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. Authors are Ian Lightcap, Sean Murphy, Timothy Schumer and Kamat. The research was supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Department of Energy.
Journal reference: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
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PETALING JAYA: Representatives from both sides of the political divide expressed polarised views over the Home Ministry's move to upload a compilation of videos of the Bersih 3
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With just two days remaining for the annual administration of fish medicine, the district administration is yet to identify an ideal' venue for it.
In-charge Collector of Ranga Reddy district Sudershan Reddy has made it clear that fish medicine will not be given at Katedan.
In all probability, the programme may be shifted to Exhibition Grounds again this year.
Already, the in-charge Collector has written a letter, seeking permission to administer fish medicine to people at the Exhibition Grounds, to General Administration Department (GAD).
In a co-ordination meeting on on Tuesday, in which family members of Bathini Goud, police and revenue authorities were present, the In-charge Collector said that police had expressed their inability to provide adequate security cover at Katedan.
Top Cyberabad police personnel, after conducting a thorough survey of the two venues at Katedan, concluded that the venues were not ideally located' to provide security to large number of visitors, expected to reach venue between June 8 and 9 from various parts of the country. Needless to say, the members of the Bathini family are on tenterhooks.
There are just two-days left. Already, the invites have been sent and we have even declared Katedan as the official venue. Now, authorities say that Katedan is unfit. We don't know about the government's intention towards administration of fish medicine. This is sheer harassment, Bathini Harinath Goud told The Hindu.
Cyberabad DCP Sudhir Babu said that the two venues at Katedan were not ideal for conducting fish prasadam programme. A detailed report highlighting the difficulties in providing security was submitted to the DGP, DCP Sudhir Babu said.
The in-charge Collector said that it would be risky to compromise on security at a venue where thousands from various parts of the countrywere expected to come.
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CHICAGO A 21-year-old Chicago man who began college at age 9 and medical school three years later is about to become the youngest student ever awarded an M.D. by the University of Chicago.
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Sho Yano, who was reading at age 2, writing at 3 and composing music at 5, will graduate this week from the Pritzker School of Medicine, where he also received a Ph.D. in molecular genetics and cell biology.
Yano earned his undergraduate degree from Loyola University at age 12, finishing in three years and graduating summa cum laude, the Chicago Tribune reported Sunday. The average age of students entering medical school in the U.S. is 23, and there were schools that refused Yano admittance because of his age. School officials worried that the rigors of medical school would hinder Yano's ability to have a normal adolescence.
"I never understood that," Yano said. "Why would being allowed to challenge yourself be considered more damaging than being totally bored?"
The University of Chicago admitted Yano in 2003.
"I remember interviewing him ... this nice, polite, 11-year-old boy, dressed in a little suit," said Dr. Joel Scwab, a professor of pediatrics who was on the admissions committee. "He was never going to be among typical 11-year-olds, where his mother would drive him to Little League. He was going to be a doctor."
The school made some accommodations because of Yano's age. Unlike most students, who begin their Ph.D. training after their second year of medical school, Yano began his after his first year. That way, he was about 18 when he began his second year of studies toward his M.D., which includes interacting with and examining patients.
Yano, who is an accomplished pianist and has a black belt in tae kwon do, told the paper he hopes his graduation will silence those who questioned his developmental aptitude when he entered medical school.
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A former child genius and Los Angeles resident who entered medical school at the age of 12 is graduating this week as the youngest student to receive a medical degree from the University of Chicago.
Born in Portland, Ore., Sho Yano, 21, has an IQ above 200 and spent most of his early years in California attending the Mirman School for Gifted Children in Los Angeles for a few years and getting home-schooled by his mother.
Yano, who has already completed his Ph.D. in molecular genetics and cell biology, was composing music by age 4, and scored 1,500 out of 1,600 possible points on the SAT by age 8. At 9, he attended Chicagos Loyola University, where he graduated in three years, summa cum laude, but still played with his pet rabbit and delighted in reading childrens books, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Yano was admitted to the University of Chicagos Pritzker School of Medicine after he met with double the usual number of staff, the Tribune said. Several other medical schools had rejected his application, citing lack of maturity.
Although he was the subject of gossip and teasing in college, classmates at Pritzker have accepted him as part of their class. Peers and faculty told the Tribune that Yano is a "sweet" and "humble student who loves Bach and quoting Greek literature.
"Despite his age, Sho's the oldest soul in our class," one classmate told the Tribune.
He has a black belt in tae kwon do and is a noted pianist. But in the end, he said in 2003, he chose medicine because he wants to help people. He will spend his next five years doing a residency in pediatric neurology.
"I'd love to make a great contribution, he told the Tribune. We'll just have to see where life takes me, but really, I haven't done anything yet."
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After the New York Liberty lost their first five games of the season, All-Star guard Cappie Pondexter found herself in totally unfamiliar territory.
''Being 0-5, I never experienced that before anywhere in any part of my career,'' Pondexter said. ''It was awful. I knew we had to turn things around.''
Pondexter scored 26 points to lead the Liberty to their second straight win, a 79-74 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday night.
Pondexter took it upon herself to carry the Liberty to the victory, making clutch shots in the fourth quarter. Her driving goal with 8:29 left gave the Liberty the lead for good and her three-point play with 4:36 left pushed the lead to 70-66.
''We had to refocus the last couple of days after we lost five in a row,'' said Pondexter, who had nine points in the final period. ''It was just a case of me being aggressive. The important thing for us is to focus on what we need to do to win.''
Leilani Mitchell added 18 points in the victory.
''Of course, we knew we were a better team than 0-5,'' Mitchell said. ''But it's a long season and the league is so good. Any game could go either way. It was very frustrating to lose those five games, but we had to remain positive.''
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John Malones Liberty Media is trying to get permission from the Federal Communications Commission to use its near majority ownership of Sirius XM Radio to take control of its board of directors. Since a tussle started in March, Sirius has opposed Liberty at the FCC and so far the FCC has rejected Liberty, basically because Liberty had not announced specific steps on its plans to effect the director election. Last week Liberty asked for reconsideration and announced some of those steps.
There is more to this dance than meets the eye. This is not about your normal struggle to control a company. Liberty has enough shares to effectively control Siriusonce the regulators give their blessing. And earlier this year, a standstill agreementwhich prohibited Liberty from trying to get more directors or otherwise control Siriusexpired.
Libertys move is probably the opening gambit in a process to harvest for Liberty shareholders the massive gain it has in its investment in Sirius. In return for loaning around half a billion dollars to Sirius when it was in dire straits during the global financial crisis, Liberty was given preferred stock convertible into 40% of the common stock of Sirius, as well as minority representation on the Sirius board.
Based on current market prices, Siriuss current market capitalization will be almost $12 billion when all those convertible securities are converted. If Liberty sold its shares now, that would be a lot of taxes to pay. And simply spinning off Sirius shares to Liberty shareholders would trigger even more taxesunless Liberty spent billions of dollars buying a lot more Sirius shares first.
But there are other transactionscomplex as they may bewhich could be used to separate Sirius from Liberty and even effect a sale of Sirius with no significant taxes. Although Sirius cannot be spun off in a tax efficient manner, Liberty could spin off its other businesses as a whole (think of it as New Liberty) and leave Sirius as pretty much the sole remaining asset of Old Liberty. And voila, Libertys shareholders have effectively received the Sirius shares without paying any taxes. And in one more wrinkle, it is possible that Sirius could be sold immediately thereafter without incurring tax as long as it was in a stock-for-stock merger. You may have read about this referred to as a Reverse Morris Trust transaction, named after an ancient tax case. Liberty has experience in this type of transaction as the DirecTV deal had some of these elements in it.
The problem is that these more complex transactions would require an extensive negotiation with the Sirius board. And because Liberty effectively controls Sirius (whether or not a majority of its directors are Liberty employees), Delaware law essentially requires Liberty to negotiate not with the full board, but with a committee of directors unrelated to Liberty.
So why is Liberty pushing so hard to get the FCC to let it grab a board majority? Because having control of a majority of the board could have significant practical implications even if Liberty couldnt cram a transaction down the boards throat. The whole dynamic of the negotiation can change once Malone has hands-on control of the company. Delaware law requires that independent directors still have the power to say no to a deal. But once Liberty has a majority of the board, it will have the power to control all other decisionsincluding what will happen if the independent directors cannot come to a deal with Liberty.
For example, the Liberty CFO appeared on CNBC last Friday and expressed support for current management. But then, in a very small shot across the bow, said that Liberty tends to make its weight known on issues relating to capital policy and that he expected Sirius to throw off a lot of cash in the future. That could be a sign that Liberty could decide to push for dividends or even a recapitalization if it does not get its way on a deal. As long as all shareholders are treated the same, Liberty could probably effect its will without the concurrence of those independent directorsonce it has a majority of the board.
At the moment it all seems to be about posturing. Liberty is trying to get itself into the best position it can to get what it will ultimately want, which is probably going to be a DirecTV type of transaction in which Liberty shareholders either receive the Liberty shares in Sirius or Sirius is sold in a tax efficient manner.
And the Sirius board has opposed Liberty so far apparently in an attempt to maximize its negotiating position.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) After the New York Liberty lost their first five games of the season, All-Star guard Cappie Pondexter found herself in totally unfamiliar territory.
''Being 0-5, I never experienced that before anywhere in any part of my career,'' Pondexter said. ''It was awful. I knew we had to turn things around.''
Pondexter scored 26 points to lead the Liberty to their second straight win, a 79-74 victory over the Atlanta Dream on Tuesday night.
Pondexter took it upon herself to carry the Liberty to the victory, making clutch shots in the fourth quarter. Her driving goal with 8:29 left gave the Liberty the lead for good and her three-point play with 4:36 left pushed the lead to 70-66.
''We had to refocus the last couple of days after we lost five in a row,'' said Pondexter, who had nine points in the final period. ''It was just a case of me being aggressive. The important thing for us is to focus on what we need to do to win.''
Leilani Mitchell added 18 points in the victory.
''Of course, we knew we were a better team than 0-5,'' Mitchell said. ''But it's a long season and the league is so good. Any game could go either way. It was very frustrating to lose those five games, but we had to remain positive.''
Atlanta dropped to 2-4 after losing its second straight contest
Liberty head coach John Whisenant believes that the difference in his team is on the defensive end. Atlanta routed the Liberty 100-74 on May 25.
''We knew we had to defend better,'' Whisenant said. ''We surrendered 26 points less than when they hammered us. We struggled with our defense in the first five games, but we were better tonight. This is the way we have to play to be successful.''
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A member of the German Pirate Party, with its logo shaved in his hair, attends the party's two-day conference in Neumuenster, Germany, on April 28.
A member of the German Pirate Party, with its logo shaved in his hair, attends the party's two-day conference in Neumuenster, Germany, on April 28.
They don't have a plan to save the euro or draw down the war in Afghanistan, nor do they have clear policies on an array of issues, but the German Pirate Party is winning converts and elections with its vision of digital democracy through "liquid feedback."
Despite public relations mishaps and a haphazard organizational structure, the Pirate Party is shaking up the stolid, bureaucratic world of German politics and jolting rival parties with its rising popularity.
Supporters of the Pirate Party react after early results are announced during elections in Duesseldorf, Germany, on May 13.
Supporters of the Pirate Party react after early results are announced during elections in Duesseldorf, Germany, on May 13.
On Tuesday night in Neukolln, a disheveled yet trendy Berlin district, the Kinski Bar buzzes like it's the weekend. The sparsely furnished tavern is filled with casually dressed 20-somethings chatting, laughing, smoking and debating in between bites of pizza and sips of cheap draft beer. As it is every Tuesday, it's Pirate Party night. It's a night for political discussion, not a party party, but it can sometimes be hard to tell the difference.
"Many things of the Pirates are so unprofessional and thereby so charming that you see, 'Well what they can do, I can do also; I can contribute to this,' " says 29-year-old Thorsten Fischer. Dressed in a casual, hip outfit of a pastel-colored T-shirt, skinny jeans and a smart haircut, Fischer belies the image painted in some of the German press that the Pirates are all computer nerds.
Fischer is now working on his second startup company, developing an app for mobile devices. In some ways his entrepreneurial spirit brought him to the Pirates. He says he was attracted by the party's tech savvy, libertarianism that stresses freedom of expression, transparency in government and Internet freedom.
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