The Age of Irresponsibility
"I recently turned 60 and friends sent the usual “Shastipoorti” messages. One older friend congratulated me on entering the age of irresponsibility. After all at the age of 60, one is usually done with householder duties and in some situations with professional careers. I tried to think back to when the “responsible” phase had begun and that took me back to 1970 when I set foot in BITS Pilani as a fresher..."
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
BITS Pilani 2016 Convocation Address, July 24th 2016 Vijay Chandru
Genetics Research, 2014
Organization for rare diseases India (ORDI) – addressing the challenges and opportunities for the Indian rare
diseases’ community
Revamping India’s scientific ecosystem
The Hindu,
Published: August 3, 2015 02:38 IST
Updated: August 3, 2015 07:17 IST August 3, 2015
World Economic Forum White Paper
Misaligned Stakeholders and Health Systems Underperformance
Industry Agenda Council: The Future of the Health Sector
June, 2016
Commercial Academics: An Indian Story
Venkat Chandrasekhar and Vijay Chandru
"Venture funding today is geared to entrepreneurial initiatives that are innovative, address new markets, highly scalable and thus growth oriented. On a time dimension, the sooner this is achieved the better. Given this scenario, successful technology entrepreneurs must possess good domain knowledge and deep-rooted technical expertise..."
Report of the Expert Committee on
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
August 2015, NITI Aayog, New Delhi
The Simputer: Technology with Heart
This is an inside and personal account of the Simputer project written by one of the founders of the
project, an academic and a technologist turned entrepreneur.
Strand 2.0: The Healthcare Pivot
In September 2012, on a request from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in India, I authored an essay entitled “Strand and Avadis® – A story of technology leadership from India in the new millennium”. The essay ended with a speculation of what was to come next from the Strand innovation engine and I wrote...
Strand 3.0: Harvesting a Dream for a Billion People
"I am sure many of you saw the article about Ramesh Hariharan that accompanied his listing among the 30 most innovative CEOs to watch for. In case you missed it – here is the link of the article with the title of this note-
http://www.insightssuccess.com/dr-ramesh-hariharan-the-scientist-harvesting-a-dream-for-a-billion-people/
We are at the cusp of the new year and Ramesh has been steering the ship for the last 18 months..."
Strand and Avadis:
A Story of Technology Leadership from India in the New Millennium
September 2012
"In late 2000, Strand Genomics Pvt Ltd had been launched from IISc as India's first example of sanctioned academic entrepreneurship. The promoters were 4 professors of computer science and the Society for Innovation and Development (SID) - the commercialization arm of IISc. It took about a year for the business plan of the company to be honed and taken to the investor community for both angel and Series A equity funding..."
VISION 2020
Leadership in Affordable Therapeutic Products:
A Bio-Pharma Strategy for India