Kalraj Mishra, Union Minister for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME), talks to Joe C. Mathew about the government's plans for SMEs

Recognised globally for excellence in management education, IIM Ahmedabad is now reaching out to the world of research and practice.

Government will identify 10 incubators out of existing 200 such centres and invest Rs 200 crore on scaling up their capacity, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said on Saturday.

The Modi government has come up with more sops to encourage startups. Concerned over the fact that only a few aspiring entrepreneurs have got the government certification for starting new businesses, the Centre has relaxed the norms to avail \"holding hand\" benefits.

We appreciate the government's intent on making India a manufacturing hub through various initiatives including ease of doing business.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday presented his maiden full-year Budget for the 2015-16 financial year in the Lok Sabha. Read the full text of his speech here:

Almost all B-schools will teach you to use innovation as a strategic tool to skim the market, drive premium products and margins but the key question everyone faces is: How to innovate?

Pitching for eight to 10 BPOs in Patna, Union Minister for Communications and IT Ravi Shankar Prasad said proper power and connectivity would be needed for such projects.

Moorthy K. Uppaluri, CEO, Randstad India and Sri Lanka, shares start-up hiring trends in India with Business Today:

Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice Chairman of IT major, Cognizant Technology Solutions, at BITSAA global meet in Hyderbad said Cognizant is investing heavily in healthcare.

Of the 3,000 product companies that have set up shop in India since 1990, 500 did so last year. They develop a host of products from education software to e-commerce platforms.

A new generation of start-ups has developed a host of agricultural tech products such as livestock disease diagnostic kits and compact cotton spinning machines to make farming easier, safer and more efficient.

The start-up landscape in India could, however, transform soon once the Union government announces a National Entrepreneurship Policy.

Neurosynaptic was founded in 2002 by Sameer Sawarkar and Rajeev Kumar, who are part of a growing breed of social entrepreneurs who start businesses not just to make profits but also to find innovative solutions to the problems of the underprivileged.

The innovation centres will act as \"innovation hubs\" at select colleges and technology institutes, providing incubation and expert hands-on support on Microsoft technology, research and software solutions, to create student technology experts.

In just over a decade, the gaming and animation market in Korea has become a multibilliondollar global player, with hundreds of companies, and employing tens of thousands of high value-adding artists

The allocation for National Automotive Testing and R&D Infrastructure Project has been enhanced from Rs 1,718 crore earlier due to the cost escalation of the project.

Some 400 million kids below the age of 15 are India's most conspicuous consumers, lapping up not just toys, gadgets, phones and clothes but also counselling parents on big ticket purchases.

Incubation, CEO and start-up are terms you associate with novel business ideas-not with the neighbourhood dhobi or laundry service.

A downturn augurs well for start-ups, and a number of engineering and B-school graduates are grabbing this opportunity.