{"id":103765,"date":"2020-03-14T08:23:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/jugaad-epitomized-a-deep-dive-into-indias-synthetic-biology-scene"},"modified":"2020-03-14T08:23:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T15:23:08","slug":"jugaad-epitomized-a-deep-dive-into-indias-synthetic-biology-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/jugaad-epitomized-a-deep-dive-into-indias-synthetic-biology-scene","title":{"rendered":"Jugaad epitomized: a deep dive into India\u2019s synthetic biology scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/jugaad-epitomized-a-deep-dive-into-indias-synthetic-biology-scene.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Google the word \u201cjugaad,\u201d and you\u2019ll find a plethora of results, from simple dictionary definitions to advice that Western companies should adopt it as part of their practices. Jugaad \u2014 a colloquial Hindi, Bengali, and Punjab word \u2014 simply means \u201chack,\u201d and captures the pervasive Indian spirit of finding a low-cost \u2014 and sometimes quite resourceful \u2014 solution to any problem. If this word doesn\u2019t make one think of entrepreneurship, I don\u2019t know what does.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the small-scale biotech facilities scattered all across India, offering products with extremely high adoption rates such as microbial-based biofertilizers, capture the essence of jugaad. In India, finding solutions to the problems at hand is very natural, a way of life, essentially \u2014 and any solution, especially an economically sensible one, will be readily adopted. With such a pervasive ideal, India seems like the perfect setting for synthetic biology and biotech-based innovation. <b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google the word \u201cjugaad,\u201d and you\u2019ll find a plethora of results, from simple dictionary definitions to advice that Western companies should adopt it as part of their practices. Jugaad \u2014 a colloquial Hindi, Bengali, and Punjab word \u2014 simply means \u201chack,\u201d and captures the pervasive Indian spirit of finding a low-cost \u2014 and sometimes quite [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}