National Innovation Foundation
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[edit] Introduction
The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) , Ahmedabad, India is an autonomous organization established under Department of Science and Technology, Government of India on Feb 28th 2000, with the main goal of providing institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up grassroots green innovations and helping their transition to self supporting activities. The foundation has a Governing Council chaired by Dr. R A Mashelkar, Secretary, DSIR and Former Director General (CSIR). and President Global Research alliance. Professor Anil K. Gupta, President SRISTI and Professor Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, is the Executive Vice Chairperson of NIF
For the last nineteen years the Honeybee Network and Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions ,SRISTI have been scouting innovations by farmers, artisans, women, etc. at the grassroots level. Gujarat Grassroots Innovations Augmentation Network, GIAN scales up innovations, from the Honey Bee database of innovations, through value additions in innovations to sustain creativity and ethics of experimentation. GIAN was conceived at the International Conference on Creativity and Innovation at Grassroots (ICCIG), jointly organized by IIM Ahmedabad and SRISTI . The Honey Bee database of more than 75,000 innovations, collected and documented by SRISTI , would be part of the National Register of Innovations to be managed and supported by NIF .
[edit] Core Functions of NIF
- Scouting and Documentation
- Business Development and Micro Venture
- Value Addition and Research & Development
- Intellectual Property Management
- Dissemination and Information Technology Management
