{"id":362626,"date":"2020-07-14T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T04:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=362626"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T04:55:50","slug":"french-power-firm-edf-backs-indian-start-ups-via-competitive-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/french-power-firm-edf-backs-indian-start-ups-via-competitive-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"French power firm EDF backs Indian start-ups via competitive programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French power utility Electricite de France (EDF) will be supporting start-ups in India to promote local innovation for a low-carbon economy. It is undertaking its global programme called EDF Pulse in India, which follows a competition format and offers financial support and other facilities to the winners. <\/p>\n<p>Harmanjit Nagi, director, EDF India, told Business Standard that winners will get access to 16 internal creativity labs, especially within EDF\u2019s research and development, apart from the company\u2019s experts in various fields ranging from technical support and marketing to business development. The prize includes $20,000 for the first position, $5,000 for the second and the third.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French power utility Electricite de France (EDF) will be supporting start-ups in India to promote local innovation for a low-carbon economy. It is undertaking its global programme called EDF Pulse in India, which follows a competition format and offers financial support and other facilities to the winners. Harmanjit Nagi, director, EDF India, told Business Standard that winners will get access to 16 internal creativity labs, especially within EDF\u2019s research and development, apart from the company\u2019s experts in various fields ranging from technical support and marketing to business development. The prize includes $20,000 for the first position, $5,000 for the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}