Author: Shantha Liyanage
Publisher: Praeger
Keywords: innovation, based, technology, knowledge, science, management, managing, strategic, systems, approach, serencipitous
Number of Pages: 286
Published: 2005-12-30
List price: $157.95
ISBN-10: 1567204872
ISBN-13: 9781567204872

Innovation is a time-consuming process that involves invention as a beginning and a marketable service or product as an end. But innovation itself, once concluded, is not necessarily a constructive act as some innovations yield positive and some negative results. The way we recognize and develop innovation—so often a serendipitous and almost invisible act in its beginning—is thus a matter of primary importance in today’s world where new thoughts and products play such a crucial role in economies across the globe. Nowhere is the general support structure required for success

Author: Dr. Shantha N Nair
Publisher: Pustak Mahal
Keywords: gods, hindu, abode, himalayas, holy
Number of Pages: 95
Published: 2007-06-01
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 8122309674
ISBN-13: 9788122309676

This book deals with the location, description, and significance of the places of religious and spiritual importance, like Rishikesh, Haridwar, Panch Prayag, the Char Dhams namely, Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri and Yamunotri, the Hemkund Saheb, the Valley of Flowers, Mata Vaishno Devi Temple, Amarnath, Kailash and Mansarovar. The Himalayas have lured people to this region since ancient times. References about the Himalayas are found even in the "Rig Veda", the oldest scripture in the world. The Himalayas mean different things to different people. For sages, saints and seekers, it is a spiritu