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India-UK on Global Innovation Partnership
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GS II : Conservation, environmental pollution and degradation, environmental impact assessment


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Union Cabinet gives ex-post facto approval to the signing of Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry Republic of India and United Kingdom on Global Innovation Partnership (GIP).

Key Facts

  • India and UK agree to launch the Global Innovation Partnership.
  • GIP will support Indian innovators to scale up their innovations in third countries thereby helping them explore new markets and become self sustainable.
  • It will also foster the innovative ecosystem in India.
  • GIP innovations will focus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) related sectors thereby assisting recipient countries achieve their SDGs.
  • Through seed funding, grants, investments and technical assistance, the Partnership will support Indian entrepreneurs and innovators to test, scale up and take their innovative development solutions to select developing countries.
  • The innovations selected under GIP would accelerate the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals
  • It also benefit the base of the pyramid populations thus promoting equity and inclusivity in recipient countries.
  • GIP will also develop an open and inclusive e-market place (E-BAAZAR) for cross border innovation transfer
  • It will focus on results based impact assessment thereby promoting transparency and accountability.

Innovations in India

  • Government has an initiative in place to encourage companies to manufacture their products there called Make In India
  • Also India have National Innovation Foundation to support innovation, Start-up India.
  • Technology is clearly the biggest area of transformation in India..
  • Advantage for India to attract foreign investments in innovations 
    • Lower wages and an open
    • Democratic government
    • Rule of law
    • Intellectual property is much better counter part like China
  • Some Flaws in India
    • In terms of world-class manufacturing, India still lags behind.
    • Physical infrastructure is not up to par—particularly in the cities.
National Innovation Foundation
  • It is an Autonomous Body of Department of Science and Technology, India was set up in March 2000.
  • Aims 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 at  grassroots technological innovators.
  • It also tries to ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and non-commercial channels, generating material or non-material incentives for them and others involved in the value chain.
  • NIF provide institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up grassroots green innovations as well as outstanding traditional knowledge and helping their transition to self-supporting activities.
  • INSPIRE Award – MANAK (Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge) is being revamped and executed by Department of Science & Technology and National Innovation Foundation-India.

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