The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) - India
is India's national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators.
NIF scouts, supports and spawns' grassroots innovations developed by individuals and local communities in any technological field, helping in human survival without any help from formal sector. It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and/or non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain... Read more
NIF conducted field visits across #Haryana & #UP for scouting, farmer meetings & tool dissemination. 79 traditional practices were documented, #mustard variety data collected, and tools shared-supporting grassroots innovation and rural knowledge systems.@IndiaDST @ranade_arvind pic.twitter.com/NFpPFqg439
— NIF - India (@nifindia) March 27, 2025
An Innovation Festival was organised at @NSCGuwahati, a unit of @ncsmgoi, @MinOfCultureGoI, in collaboration with @nifindia on March 22 and 23, 2025.🌍✨
— National Council of Science Museums-NCSM (@ncsmgoi) March 26, 2025
Glimpses 📷#ScienceAndInnovation #AI #IPR #EarthHour pic.twitter.com/yur772pOXA
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