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Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here). In this 205th edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life entrepreneurs in their startup journeys. What would you do if you were in their shoes? At the end of the quiz, you will find out what the entrepreneurs and innovators themselves actually did. Would you do things differently?Check out YourStory’s Book Review section as well, with takeaways from over 355 titles on creativity and entrepreneurship, and our weekend PhotoSparks section on creativity in the arts.…

Artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is steadily moving from promise to practice, transforming both clinical and non-clinical settings. When deployed effectively, AI tools can help bridge the deep healthcare divides that exist between the developing and developed world, rural and urban populations, and those who have access to quality care and those who do not. In urban environments, AI-enabled clinical decision support systems have shown value in helping doctors prioritise high-risk patients, improve accuracy, and reduce the likelihood of misdiagnosis. In rural settings, these tools empower trained health workers to identify patients who require urgent attention, ensuring the critical cases…

Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 905 posts, we featured an art festival, cartoon gallery. world music festival, telecom expo, millets fair, climate change expo, wildlife conference, startup festival, Diwali rangoli, and jazz festival.Gallery Sumukha is currently hosting a one-month exhibition by printmaker Champa Sharath, titled Avatars. See our coverage of earlier exhibitions at this popular art gallery here.“My works are a reflection and reinterpretation of what I see around me, in mass media like glossy magazines, newspapers and the internet. I choose characters to whom I can relate – maybe they are all extensions of me,”…

Professor Venkat Ramaswamy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, is co-author of The Co-Intelligence Revolution and the co-author of the seminal book The Future of Competition with C K Prahalad. He is a globally recognised thought leader on innovation and co-creation. Two decades ago, Professor Ramaswamy introduced the idea of ‘co-creation’, a revolutionary concept that reshapes how businesses engage with customers. Today, his latest book The Co-Intelligence Revolution explores how humans and AI can co-create new value in ways previously unimaginable. In a conversation, he shares powerful insights that every entrepreneur and business leader can learn from.From co-creation to co-intelligenceReflecting…

With the rise of India Stack, UPI and consumer apps, India has rapidly evolved into a digital economy. This has enabled Indians to go online to ease payments, logistics, e-health, etc. While digital-first startups have reshaped the consumer economy and enabled incredible convenience, they depend on existing infrastructure, global tech stacks, and incremental innovation.By contrast, deeptech startups seek to build new knowledge, new capabilities, and new industries by leveraging core science, engineering, and research. These startups operate in the real economy, building physical products, core technologies, and complex systems. Indian tech talent has been innovating and building next-gen technology for global…

Hello,Can a bot minister tackle corruption?That’s the question Albania hopes to answer. Prime Minister Edi Rama, who is about to begin his fourth term, said last week that AI-generated bot Diella, which means ‘sun’ in Albanian, will manage and award all public tenders in which the government contracts private companies for various projects, Reuters reports.Meanwhile, with Big Tech’s data centres threatening to overload US electricity grids, policymakers are looking towards tough solutions, including bumping the energy-hungry data centres off grids during power emergencies, according to Associated Press.Speaking of energy, the US is pushing for a ‘nuclear energy renaissance’. In fact,…

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Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. More than a decade ago, business gurus were quick to label any idea or development that was mildly novel as “disruptive innovation.” Originally coined by American academic and business consultant Clayton Christensen in his 1997 book The Innovator’s Dilemma, it was used largely to describe how small businesses could challenge larger players within a market, often entering at the low end and moving upmarket and disrupting established competitors’ core business.But in the mid-2010s, gone were the days of the so-called disruptors, as critics began noting how the term had become a business…

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Born to doctors, Amey Desai went against familial tendencies and became an engineer instead. But the world of medicine continued to have an impact, reflecting in some of the decisions he took as a student at BITS Goa. For instance, he chose to study the electroencephalogram, a test that measures and records the electrical activity of the brain.Not long after, his paternal grandfather fell and broke his hip, introducing Amey to the space of biofeedback and neurological conditions. “Everyone in my family is educated, and we were aware of his issues. But we could not see the inflexion point; maybe if…