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Two decades have passed since the first Earth Summit was held at Rio de Janeiro. The Rio+20 Earth Summit will be held this week to mark the 20th anniversary of the 1992 conference, to review the progress made in implementing the sustainable development agenda during these years and to frame guidelines for the years ahead. Niranjan Rajadhyaksha wrote in his weekly column The Impartial Spectator describing how culture influences growth of nations, “Parking behaviour is a reflection of social norms prevalent in a country”. And social norms affect (directly and indirectly) the way we conduct our economic activities that have a bearing on the nation’s economic progress. The author cites LEDs have been positioned as the future of the lighting industry for quite some time now. But due to the high costs and limited consumer awareness, the Led industry so far has managed to grab just a small mouthful of the Indian lighting industry. But the ECBC norms, if leveraged properly could give it a All businesses everywhere undertake some kind of CI; they cannot survive without it. Even mom and pop stores do – although very informally. In India, it is mainly the large companies and multinationals that have formal competitive intelligence activities. How do they decide how much formal CI they should do? Here are some observations.. CI The Union Budget is a much awaited event each year. We are eager to know what the finance minister has planned for the economy for the year ahead. Nothing wrong with that, but how many of us have actually drawn a similar kind of a plan for ourselves, which takes into account all of our Industry experts predict that LED lighting will be the next wave of innovation in lighting and India will be no exception to this development. LED technology is more efficient in terms of energy use and performance. A closer look though, reveals that while the adoption of LED technology may be set for rapid |
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