BEHIND THE SCENES | COLUMN
ASIAN COURAGE MANOJ KABRE, MEMBER, EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD (EAB) Courage is more essential to succeed as an entrepreneur —
more than vision, creativity and charisma. These are the views of Ben Horowitz, who was the mentor of stalwarts and successful entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg, Tony Bates,
Dick Costolo. Building a company, he says, is like boxing — it demands relentless focus and perseverance. He often gets compared to Bill Campbell, who is considered to be the mentor of people like Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt.
While China is the fastest-growing market for robots,
Japan still has, by far, the highest number of industrial robots in operation —
310,000 compared to 96,000 in China and 168,000 in USA.
previous year. While China is the fastest-growing market for robots, Japan still has, by far, the highest number of industrial robots in operation — 310,000 compared to 96,000 in China and 168,000 in USA. China’s automotive industry, the world’s largest, accounts for about 60% of the demand for robots in the country.
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The focus on China, and its seemingly inexorable rise, means that India, the other Asian giant, often gets neglected. That's unfortunate: what happens on the subcontinent matters to all since it is the world's biggest democracy. With a population of about 1.3 billion people, it has more people than the US, the European Union, Russia and Brazil combined. And according to a new World Bank study, it is already the world's third largest economy in terms of purchasing power, behind the US and China. The country's new Prime Minister, Narendra Modi is making attempts to revive it by looking at more free-market reforms, government intervention to improve education system, the bike infrastructure, promote social inclusion and strengthen the rule of law.
hina, once the manual labour ‘workshop of the world’, has become the largest buyer of industrial robots. It bought 36,560 industrial robots last year, a rise of 60% over the
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