Microsoft’s Paul Murphy on Entrepreneurship and Innovation in India Part-1
By kamla bhatt • Jun 18th, 2008Category: Bangalore, Business & Tech, Featured, Ideas, India, Los Angeles, USA, Video
Podcast: Play in new window | Download
Entrepreneurship, innovation, startups and Microsoft is what makes Paul Murphy tick. Paul is Director of Innovation at Microsoft and his company has pretty ambitious goals about fostering and creating opportunities for innovation in India, especially among the student community.
When Paul is not working out of his office in Bangalore, he is busy traveling to different parts of India meeting with policy makers, entrepreneurs, Venture Capitalists, students and teachers. His goal is to foster and help create entrepreneurship and innovation in India, especially among the student community. Paul and his team work with various Tier-1 and Tier-2 schools to help create entrepreneurship and innovation programs and incubators where students can get hands-on knowledge and experience of starting companies.
In Part-1 of the interview Paul talks about the three-pronged strategy that Microsoft has in creating and promoting entrepreneurship in India. He points out that support structure in terms of capital, mentorship and cross-border angel networks are starting to form in India, but there is lots more that needs to be done in India.
Tune in to find out what Paul has to say about Microsoft’s roadmap for entrepreneurship and innovation in India.
Related Post: Video Clip of Paul Murphy
Technorati Tags: Paul Murphy,Microsoft India,Innovation in India,Entrepreneur,Entrepreneurship in India,Technology,India
Kamla Bhatt is the host and producer of an Internet Radio show where listeners can find stories about the new and emerging India and the global Indian community. As a pioneer of 'internet radio' format in India Kamla started her first show News about India, followed by TalkNewsIndia in 2005. In 2006 she premiered her new show: The Kamla Bhatt Show: Life, People and Ideas. 
Well it has taken a ‘concerned’ foreigner like Mr Murphy to foster and help create entrepreneurship and innovation among the Indian student community.That his work extends beyond the empty rehtoric of ‘inclusiveness’, we often hear from our political leaders in India, to provide capital, mentoring and cross-border angel investors is indeed praiseworthy_all in the great philanthropic tradition of the world’s richest man,who has always acted his age—made the biggest fortune in his youth as a pioneer software entrepreneur and now giving back to the world with the Gates’ Foundations’ activities around the world in multitudinal ways.
Thanks for listening to the interview and sharing your thoughts.
Stay tuned for Part-2 of the interview.
Thanks,
Kamla
nice interview. depressing to hear about the whole phd thing – well – looking forward to part two.
[...] case you missed, you might want to check out Part-1 of the interview with [...]
Hey Surfersaint, Ravi, thanks for the feedback.
I can honestly say I’ve been the apprentice here in India, not necessarily the catalyst, as it relates to entrepreneurship and social change. The great news is there are many highly motivated individuals like Kamla Bhatt herself, Ashish Gupta, Alok Mittal, Sudhir Sethi, Sanjay Anandaram, Bringi Dev, Laura Parkin, Sam Pitroda, etc.. just to name a few.. who have gone far beyond commercial motivations to make a significant impact in this area through personal investments in time and other resources. India is evolving rapidly in entrepreneurship, for the better, and it’s happening from within – it’s fantastic to be a spectator and help out along the way.
Best,
Paul
In the spirit of accuracy, about 3 minutes into the interview, I’d like to clarify that my studies were primarily funded from parents and other sources. This wasn’t too clear from my comments in the interview.