Talk:Indovation

Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented rise in innovations from emerging economies. Specially, innovations from the largest or most affluent emerging economies like Brazil, Russia, India and China. The business press like the Economist (2010) has reported this phenomenon with a special issue "The world turned upside down: A special report on innovation in emerging markets". In this context, innovations coming out of India like the $30 tablet computer, $2500 Nano car by Tata Motors, etc has received a lot of attention from academics, practitioners and business school students.

The term "Indovation" refers to a fairly widespread phenomenon of Indian innovations. With a population of 1.2 billion people and with a projected average economic growth of more than 5% per year in the next three decades India will have a lot of innovations to offer. Students of business management like me find this term very useful because it helps us refer to the phenomenon easily. "Indovation" term has been coined by Mr Navi Radjou who is the Executive Director of Centre of Indian Business at University of Cambridge which lends the term a lot of credibility. The growing importance of the phenomenon of Indian innovations begs us to retain this term on wikipedia.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/29980704/The-Economist-Special-Report-Innovation-in-Emerging-Markets-April-17th-2010 http://www.ndtv.com/article/technology/india-unveils-prototype-of-35-tablet-computer-39424?cp

I see that this page is set up for deletion and I feel it should not be deleted.

I do believe that this concept Indovation is an important management concept that has already gained traction in the business world worldwide. I have seen the website and am impressed by it. I do expect more people will contribute to this concept in the future -- by adding more examples of Indovations. Indovation a serious academic concept that originates from a very credible source (University of Cambridge) and therefore I recommend it be added to Wikipedia to help expand public knowledge.
Navi Radjou was a vice president of a large market research firm and wrote many reports on india and innovation.

KLNP (talk) 12:30, 6 August 2010 (UTC)KLNP

Controversial

Indovation is a term that was used in India from 2006/7 and hence the claim by Navi Radjou that he has invented it is falacious. While google maynot show this but in many other forums this word came into the vocab. So this wkik article is mis-leading.

Just because the first entry in google searches cites him does not entitle him to claim the credit for the word.

(Ruben)

Not convincing claim

I have heard this term in 2007. Google may not show it but in several forums across India, business leaders have mentioned about indovation since 2007. The moot point is do we need another word for innovation done in India. My opinion is that we don't- this is plain jargon and to claim to have invented this word as it has been done here is not right and perhaps not ethical either. Am I right in presuming that people use their own people/friends/contacts to write article about themselves or something they claim to be have done. This very much smells like it. I did a search on google too and hilariously in another article where indovation has been mentioned, Navi Radjou has claimed in reader's discussion forum that he has invented the word. I think this wiki article and its claim should be taken with caution. (Rajesh Agarwal)

Donot believe this

I am not convinced that this has been invented by Navi Radjou as this wikipedia stub claims it to be. Indovation, per se, is not someone's property. What next? Will this word now be patented too?. I heard this term in late 2006, when there was a flurry of interest about India and its growth story. Many people would then mention this term in passing so to claim that it was invented by Mr. Radjou is not right. Perhaps he himself has penned this article in a pseudoname. He might have set up the website called indovation.net but to claim to have coined a word is untrue. Why can't this word be one of those that was probably thought by several (probably hundreds of) people at the same time. One thing though, whatever the claims, the point should be to celebrate innovations all across the world and especially celebrate those who are doing something REAL. Claiming to have invented the word (ahem!) is not as innovative as those who have done that actual innovation- the REAL DOERS! Let's give them a platform too and I am sure like many other entrepreneurs all across the world they will smile at the stupidity of this claim since actions matter more than words. (Susthir Nath) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Susthirnath (talk • contribs) 09:31, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

What's unique about Indovation?

The article states that Indovation is 'unique' way of innovation in India. Now can anyone explain what's unique about innovation in India in comparison to innovation in Brazil, China, Kenya, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Argentina, South Africa, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and other such developing countries. Why don't these management types get this that they can't claim to be 'doing' something by regurtitating other people's 'real' work. I am an Indian and I think innovation is a global phenemenon and innovation across developing countries share many commanalities. Call you what may this sounds like a *self promoting* article. (Raghav Dixit) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Raghavdixit (talk • contribs) 13:34, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Controversial? Really? It's about knowledge sharing, not ownership.

It seems that the larger issue of why a term like "Indovations" should be included is being missed for a discussion around who has coined the term. I suppose that underlines the importance of introducing Indovation/s into a contemporary lexicon. Let's move on from who invented the term and focus on using this Wiki entry as a BASIS TO ELABORATE more on this concept by adding examples of Indovations, and providing links to articles, photos, films +++. If someone can find evidence of the term Indovation in use before 2009, simply add a link to it. Meanwhile, let's keep the larger picture in clear view. ˜˜˜˜ —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bommpls (talk • contribs) 21:49, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

exlinks

I just removed all exlinks from this page per WP:LINKFARM and my belief that the exlinks section should not be longer than the article proper. Since I didn't read any of them and it's possible some could be converted into sources, I'll collapse them below.