Ashok Jhunjhunwala, professor of IIT Chennai on innovation and entrepreneurship
The IITs, as they are known around the globe, have a long history of turning out top engineers. Thousands of their graduates have flourished in the global technology marketplace, with a good portion landing in the Bay Area. Many have also stayed home, or returned to India, to help fuel the world’s fastest-growing tech economy.
But now academics like Jhunjhunwala — along with the country’s business leaders — want more for their students than good jobs. They’re hoping to instill in their graduates the spirit of innovation and incubation that has been the earmark of Silicon Valley for decades. They want to use technological invention to help India ascend.
To put it bluntly, India is sick and tired of simply cranking out the world’s best engineers. It now wants to create the world’s best ideas.
via SF Chronicle
March 2nd, 2007 at 12:58 am
[...] Earlier in the week, SF Chronicle had an article about academics and entrepreneurship in India. Here’s a related blog post on their site which further drives the point of innovation in the IT services industry. [...]