Economy

The 2nd Global Forum on Business Incubation: Empowering Economies through ICT, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, will gather organizations from around the globe to exchange knowledge and ideas on how the combination of information and communication technologies (ICT), innovation and entrepreneurship can drive competitiveness and wealth creation in developing country economies.

The event to held at Hyderabad from Nov 6-10,2006 will draw more than 300 participants from 60 - 70 countries, and including representatives of the public, private, academic and not-for-profit sectors. The event will provide an opportunity to:

There is now little doubt that the economic boom in India is unprecedented and is reaching well beyond the sectors and areas that normally benefit from these things. These three stories, all of them in today's newspaper, illustrate the point well .

The first one notes how an Indian derivatives exchange (which itself is less than three years old) has become the second largest global trader of Natural Gas just three months after introducing the contract.