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A design-based curriculum: empowering students in the modern era
By Tulika Puri Katyal
October, 2019
In today's technology-driven, boundary-less world, where information is available at the fingertips, true learning takes place at the intersection of human experience and cognition.
On the one hand, we are experiencing academic perfection with students securing 99% (and even 100%) marks and academic inflation (with more students opting for Master's and Doctoral degrees). But on the other hand, some of the world's top organisations are looking for unique skill sets with no requirements of a degree!
Tulika Puri Katyal was interviewed by the Fablook magazine
August, 2018
Fablook spoke to leading architect and serial entrepreneur Tulika Puri Katyal about her current projects and what keeps her going.
FAB: As a serial entrepreneur, what do you find the most exciting about the world of design?
Tulika: The design industry in India is booming like never before. This is an industry whose market is estimated to be in the range of INR 188.32 bn! As an antrepreneur and educator, what interests me is the fact that this industry will need as many as 60,000 skilled personnel to realise its projected potential. Estimates show that only a fifth of the design market is currently tapped.
As someone who understands design, I believe design should be part of our everyday lives. It is a great solution provider for both simple and complex challenges one comes across in daily living.
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Navi Radjou's take on entrepreneurship
November, 2009
Navi Radjou is a Silicon Valley-based innovation and leadership advisor. He is a winner of the 2013 Thinkers50 Innovation Award he is the coauthor (with Jaideep Prabhu and Simone Ahuja) of Jugaad Innovation (Wiley 2012). His latest book (with Jaideep Prabhu) is Frugal Innovation (The Economist in association with Profile Books and Public Affairs, 2015).
He attended the 2009 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum and came away with stories of unsung Indian innovations that are solving some of India's, and the world's gravest problems. One example os Selco, providing solutions to rural households in a manner that is financially viable and solves a real problem for consumers (in the pic, the solar lighting solution provides much-needed lighting solutions in underserved geographies.
Gurugram to get Center for Design and Innovation
March 9, 2018
First of its kind in India, the centre will aim to bring Indian design expertise, technology and industry requirements together to make products of the future.
The objective is to make India a hub for design in the South-Asian market. “CDI will fill the missing gap between the industry and the academia.
This will cement India as the hub of design in the Asia-Pacific region”, said Tulika Puri Katyal, Founder, Centre for Design and Innovation. "We expect ideas around design to grow from D2B (design to business) and B2D (business to design) spaces, in order to meet new opportunities," she said.
The campus will be set up in Gurugram and will offer courses for freshers, mid-as well as senior-level professionals in design thinking, innovation, strategy and management.
Singularity University and CDI's decision to collaborate on the Global Startup Program
February 28, 2019
Singularity University and the Center for Design & Innovation announced its intention to start India's first-ever platform to scale startups into global businesses, the Global Startup Program. The decision to join hands was taken in the presence of Neil Sogard, Managing Director, SU and Monique Giggy, Vice President, SU Ventures, along with Tulika Puri Katyal, Founder, and Darpan Katyal, co-Founder, the Center for Design & Innovation. The year-long program will select India's topmost promising entrepreneurial concepts and entrepreneurs, and turn them into global businesses. The GSP program is relevant for corporations, world governments, non-profits, startups, and others and is intended to solve humanity's biggest challenges by helping them develop an exponential mindset and apply emerging technologies to create and equitable and abundant future.
India’s First-Ever Global Startup Program Opens in Gurgaon
February 20, 2019
Singularity University and the Center for Design & Innovation has announced the start India’s first-ever platform to scale startups into a global business, the Global Startup Program. The decision to join hands was taken in the presence of Neil Sogard, Managing Director, SU and Monique Giggy, Vice President, SU Ventures, along with Tulika Puri Katyal, Founder, and Darpan Katyal, co-Founder, the Center for Design & Innovation.
The year-long program will select India’s topmost promising entrepreneurial concepts and entrepreneurs, and turn them into global businesses. The GSP program is relevant for corporations, world governments, nonprofits, startups, and others and is intended to solve humanity’s biggest challenges by helping them develop an exponential mindset and apply emerging technologies to create an equitable and abundant future.
“SU’s mission is to back 10,000 startups using exponential technologies and the impact of the GSP program will be felt in future-forward fields including computers and networks, 3D printing, AI, robotics, synthetic biology, digital medicine and nanotechnology,” said Neil Sogard, Managing Director, SU.
