A Biography of Innovations: From Birth to Maturity
R Gopalakrishnan
Penguin Random House
197 pages; Rs 399
India as a Pioneer of Innovation
Harbir Singh, Ananth Padmanabhan, Ezekiel J. Emanuel (Eds)
Oxford University Press
226 pages; Rs 650
When I think of innovation Winston Churchill’s observation about Russia, made in a radio broadcast in October 1939, comes to mind: “It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.”
Identify that key and you are... well... only about 50 per cent through. The theory of innovation aside, the real issues of follow-through, of making an innovative idea traverse the long road to