The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) – India

IGNITE -2017

The National Innovation Foundation (NIF) – India, set up by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), is built on the philosophy akin to the behaviour of a honey bee. NIF has taken major initiatives to serve the knowledge-rich but economically poor people of the country.

It is committed to making India innovative by documenting, adding value, protecting the intellectual property rights (IPR) of the contemporary unaided technological innovators as well as of outstanding traditional knowledge-holders and disseminating their innovations on commercial and non-commercial basis.

The last date for submitting ideas and innovations under Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam IGNITE Awards is 31st Aug, 2017

EXAMPLE

NATURAL WATER COOLER

NIF only considers ideas/innovations of a) people from unorganized sector with little/no formal education or professional/technical training and b) students upto class 12. Kindly ascertain your eligibility for submission of any of your ideas/innovations before submission. Please write to us sd@nifindia.org for clarification if any.

http://nif.org.in/submitidea

http://nif.org.in/