National Innovation Foundation - Grassroots innovations are developed by untrained people in informal sector at community level without any support from institutional agencies. These innovations by knowledge rich-economically poor people often are trying to solve local problems though in many cases, these solutions might have a universal appeal. The National Innovation Foundation (NIF), Ahmedabad, India was set up to promote grassroots innovations, ideas as well as outstanding traditional knowledge. NIF 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, Former Secretary, DSIR, India and Former Director General (CSIR) and President of the Global Research Alliance. Professor Anil K. Gupta[1], [2], President, SRISTI[3] and Professor Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, is the Executive Vice Chairperson of NIF.
For the last twenty years, the Honey Bee Network[4] 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 130,000 ideas, innovations, and traditional knowledge practices (not all unique of course) collected and documented primarily by Honey Bee network collaborators would be part of the National Register of Innovations to be managed and supported by NIF.
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