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India has great talent, but it needs to do more to nurture and build an ecosystem for entrepreneurship, the CEO of a top science body in the US has said. Indian-American Maya Ajmera, who is president and CEO of Society for Science, and the publisher of its award-winning magazine, Science News, made these comments on Wednesday after five Indian-American teenagers featured among 40 finalists of a prestigious science and maths competition for high school seniors in the US. Ajmera said that while India has great talent, it needs to do more to nurture and build an ecosystem for entrepreneurship. What has been interesting for me is the number of young South Asian Americans or Indian-Americans, applying and doing extraordinary research, but also being in our top 40 (of the finals of the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search), Ajmera told PTI in an interview. The finalists of this competition were chosen based on their projects' scientific rigour and their potential to become ...

Updated On: 26 Jan 2023 | 8:59 AM IST

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Updated On: 01 Jan 2023 | 10:15 PM IST

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Updated On: 09 Aug 2022 | 3:21 PM IST

Bihar Industries Minister Syed Shahnawaz on Friday said the state government is making all efforts to provide opportunities to young and budding entrepreneurs

Updated On: 30 Jul 2022 | 10:57 AM IST

"The new young India that is building their businesses, is aspiring to build sizable world champions in the consumer segments that they operate," Agarwal said

Updated On: 28 Apr 2022 | 12:11 PM IST

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Updated On: 17 Mar 2020 | 10:50 PM IST

A proof of social acceptance of entrepreneurship would be when parents are delighted to have a start-up son-in-law

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