National Innovation Foundation - India

National Innovation Foundation – India An Autonomous body of Department of Science and technology, Govt. of India

Builds bridges between formal and informal science, technology and innovation: Incubates ideas, innovations and outstanding traditional

knowledge practices for diffusion with or without value addition through commercial and non commercial channels as public goods

Mainstreaming grassroots innovations

How did it all begin: (1988-89 )

A nameless, faceless innovator or traditional knowledge holder comes into contact with the Network and gets an identity, voice, visibility and viability of its sustainable vision .

Honey Bee Network (HBN) : an odd ball network

Knowledge Sharing in local language

Recognition, Respect & Reward

Benefit Sharing

Redesigns collaborative and open innovation pathways for the future: cross pollination

Redefines the norms of accountability & reciprocity: benefit sharing

HBN- a network of like minded individuals and organisations

Honey Bee Network (HBN)………….

Individual innovators

TK Holders

NGOs

NGIs

R&D Institutes

Scientists

Farmers

Students

Teachers

Journalists

Women groups

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1988

Key Activities

of NIF

National Innovation Foundation (NIF) - India

Scouting, Documentation and Database Management

Value Addition,

Research and Development

Intellectual Property

Management (IPM)

Business Development

& MVIF

Dissemination & Social Diffusion

Festival of Innovations

(FOIN)

Activities • Innovation Exhibition • Awards to innovators • Global Roundtable on Inclusive

Innovations, Public Service Delivery, Medical Science and Biotechnology, Sustainable agriculture, Start Up, banking and financing of innovations, Design Innovation etc.

• Innovation clubs workshop • Children workshops

Festival of Innovations: Presedential

awards to grassroots innovators

Since 2010, NIF has been organizing an exhibition of grassroots innovation at the President House to expose the Mughal garden visitors and others to the pervasive culture of creativity and innovation at grassroots.

Exhibition of Innovation

Festival of Innovations: Exhibition of innovations for

Clean India, ‘Swachh Bharat’

• Empathetic model of supporting innovation by Honourable President of India

• The Rashtrapati Bhavan would host writers, artists

and grassroots innovators for a month or two and provide them mentoring and other necessary support.

• Innovators will interact with the President Shri

Pranab Mukherjee and other senior policy makers, scientists in technology institutes like IITs and regulatory agencies like Bureau of Indian Standards.

• NIF coordinated with The President House and

helped in screening of entries, coordination with innovators, technical institutions, government departments, ministries etc.,

• A clear message has been given by The President

that Innovations matter and he expects every institution in the country to give similar importance and respect to the creative people.

“Innovation Scholar In Residence” Programme (2014 onward

Innovation Scholars (2014-2016) with the President

Interaction of Innovation Scholars (2014-2016) with the President

Round tables on inclusive innovations

Medical Science and Biotechnology

Start Up, banking and financing of innovations

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam IGNITE Awards (2007-)

The national competition of school students’ original technological ideas and innovations

October 15 – Birthday of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Children’s Creativity & Innovation Day

Identifying and nurturing children’s creativity

Dr A P J Abdul

Kalam IGNITE

Awards 2016 Young innovators

awarded for their

empathetic ideas at

the Rashtrapati

Bhavan, New Delhi

on 7th November

2016

Dr A P J Abdul Kalam IGNITE Awards 2017

INSPIRE Awards – MANAK Million Minds Augmenting National Aspiration and Knowledge

(for students from standards 6-10, age group 10-15 years, from any school /boards)

Sowing the seeds of innovation in the mind

of children

INSPIRE Awards - MANAK is aligned with Start up India, Stand up

India program

Internal competition in schools for generation

of ideas

Awareness and capacity building initiatives

Novelty, applicability, user & eco friendliness; advantage over existing

technologies

Mentoring support for students and their ideas

Hon'ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee inaugurates Navachara - II, a permanent exhibition of Grassroots Innovation at Rashtrapati Bhavan on 11th December, 2016

Innovations in the mind space of the people

GRIs in News

Promoting Entrepreneurship

Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Technology Development

Micro Venture Innovation Fund (MVIF) –a dedicated risk fund supported by SIDBI to help set up innovation based enterprises by investing in those grassroots innovations for which either market does not exist or is limited. 209 projects supported.

NIF Incubation and Entrepreneurship Council (NIFientreC) - a Technology Business Incubator (TBI) which identifies and invests in potential technological ideas and innovations of grassroots innovators, socially relevant and technological cutting edge ideas and innovations of school students.

Grassroots Technological Innovation Acquisition Fund (GTIAF) – acquiring rights of socially useful innovations for licensing at low cost or no cost to set up micro enterprises. 81 innovations acquired

• Set up ‘FAB Lab’ with the help of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

in year 2009. Later FAB LAB further strengthened.

• Fab lab has facilities for basic mechanical as well as digital fabrication with

precision.

Community Workshops • Established 42 community workshops in 19 states, at the premises of

seasoned innovators so that other grassroots innovators of the region can have

access to fabrication facilities and also learn from the experiences of such

innovators.

Collaborations

National

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)

Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR)

Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights Authority (PPV&FRA)

National Biodiversity Authority (NBA)

National Institute of Advance Studies (NIAS)

IITs, NITs, CUs, SAUs, SVUs, KIIT, NID,

Patent Firms and Attorneys pan India

among others

Malaysia Innovation Foundation (YIM) South Regional Center for Science & Technology (SRCST), Mozambique Ministry of Science & Technology Development, Zimbabwe ISIS Innovation, Oxford University NBIC, Namibia Tianjin University of Finance & Economics, China Radix Global Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. IDRC, Canada Among others

International

How we find odd balls

• Network

• Media

• Shodhyatra

• Students

• Competitions

• Innovators

• Shodh Sankal

• Old literature

• National Campaign

• Cultural fairs

• Exhibition

• Women SHG

• Traditional food festival

• Fellowship

• Curriculum of students

• Involving other networks

Shodh yatra: The journey of exploration

• Recognize, reward & honor knowledge holders at their doorsteps

• Disseminating grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge

• Understanding the creative process

• Identify the innovators and unique knowledge holders

• Reinforcing their experimental ethic.

Innovators as scouts Amrutbhai Agrawat, Gujarat Sundaram Verma, Rajasthan Kanak Das, Assam Mushtaq Ahmad Dar, J&K Satish Deb, Chhattisgarh MK Narang, Madhya Pradesh And so on……

National Biennial Campaigns to scout green grassroots innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge practices.

Advertisement in national and regional newspapers

Scouting through Students

Summer Scout

Curriculum

Fellowships

Students network – science clubs

Idea Competitions

Biodiversity competition

Scouting through Media

• Identified Interested Journalists/Stringers

• News/advertisement in print media

• Reports/Stories in print/electronic media

Shodh Sankal

•To strengthen lateral learning among the grassroots innovators, the concept of Shodh Sankal-a chain of experimenting farmers, was initiated in mid 1990’s by SRISTI.

•This platform provides scope for lateral learning among those who solve the problem and not only those who merely articulate them.

•Shodh Sankals make use of a solution augmenting approach rather a simple problem solving one.

•Meetings are organised in different talukas where the farmers participate in large numbers.

Traditional Food Festival- Sattvik, fairs, exhibitions

Innovation exhibition

Idea competitions

Recipe contests

• Disease specific

• Meeting with innovators

• General meeting

Village meetings

Dissemination

Social diffusion of grassroots technologies

• KVKs

• S&T councils

• Education boards

• District administration

• Other organisations /departments

Involvement of Govt & other organisations

Documentation of Innovation & traditional knowledge

Documenting grassroots/frugal innovations

• At Peoples place

• In Peoples Time

• In Peoples language

Prior Informed Consent Form

Explanatory Note

Sharing of address with third party

Sharing of knowledge on the website, publication or through other media

Nature of disclosure

Conditions of disclosure

Value addition, business development and benefit sharing mechanism

For making them innovative & entrepreneur

NIF-Kalinga Institute of Social Science

Idea competition for Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam IGNITE National Competition

students upto class 12

Sebati Kutruka getting awarded by the President of India for her idea. Sebati Kutruka displaying her SWEET POTATO DIGGING

MACHINE in front of President “Pranab Mukherjee”.

Pedal Operated Vegetable Cutting Machine Dhanurjaya Dehury Class 8. Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences. Bhubaneswar, Odisha

An idea of vegetable cutter which can be like sewing machine and will be operated by leg.

Small exhibition cum demonstration unit &

fabrication of open source technology

Innovation Diffusion Centre (IDC) at Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) -world’s largest tribal

school

Multipurpose Processing Machine

Innovator: Shri Dharamveer Singh Kamboj | Yamuna Nagar, Haryana |

• Capable of processing various herbs like juice and gel of aloe vera, juice of amla, jamun,

mango, tomato, orange, etc. and extracting essence of flowers and other herbs.

• Cylindrical vessel is surrounded by a jacket of castor oil for uniform distribution of heat

• Motor speed: 1440 rpm; Rotor/centrifuge speed: 360 rpm

• Variants 130, 60 and 30 lph capacity

• Electricity consumption : 1-1.5 units/hour

• Weight : 40-125 kg

Bamboo Strip and Incense Stick Making Machine

Innovator: Shri Pareshbhai Kasturbhai Panchal, Ahmedabad, Gujarat

• Set of two machines, one for slicing the bamboo pieces, the other for cutting slices into sticks/splints.

• Capacity: 30 kg of sticks per day • Blades are made of high carbon steel and need to be

replaced after producing 10,000 kg of splints. • 150 sets (2 machines in each set) sold since 2011. It

includes sell of sixty sets to tribal communities through DFO Udaipur and twenty sets through an NGO in Siliguri (WB).

Innovator: Dipakbhai & Vijaybhai, Ahmedabad

The innovators have developed a machine to automate the process of making round cotton wicks. Compared to the manual process where one can make only about 8 - 10 wicks per minute, the machine can produce 20 - 25 good quality wicks per minute. The machine is portable, affordable and easy to use having enormous potential for generating livelihoods.

Cotton wick making machine

200 machines have been sold by the innovators in the last six months. Innovators have been conferred National Award by President Shri Pranab Mukhrjee on 7th March 2015 at NIF Award function

Innovations for grassroots

Bicycle based Innovations

Rider Induced bicycle Mr. Kanak Das, Assam

Bicycle based sprayer

Mr. Mansukhbhai Jagani, Gujarat

Bicycle with gear Mr. Jayanti J Patel,Gujarat Bamboo bicycle

Mr. Dodhi Pathak, Assam

Amphibious Bicycle Mohd. Saidullah, Bihar

Bicycle based mobile spray pump Subhas Vasantrao Jagtap, Maharastra

Multipurpose Bicycle

Md. Kamruddin, Rajasthan

Bicycle operated pump

Mr. Vikram Rathore, AP Bicycle based portable Pump Mr. Nasiruddin Gayen, WB

Motor-bike based Innovations

Motor-cycle based ploughing attachment ‘Bullet-Santi’

Mr. Mansukhbhai Jagani, Gujarat

Modified scooter for handicapped

Mr. Dhanjibhai Kerai, Gujarat

Motorcycle based sprayer

Mr. Ganeshbhai Dodiya, Gujarat Small efficient diesel engine

Mr. Mansukhbhai Sanchaniya, Gujarat

Non-return valve for

4-stroke engine

Mr. Arvind Khandake,

Maharashtra

Auto engine Stopper

Mr. Tukaram Varma

Chhattisgarh

Innovations can be for drudgery reduction

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Innovations can be for physically challenged

Multipurpose processing machine

Capable of processing various herbs like juice and gel of aloe vera, juice of amla, jamun, mango, tomato, orange, etc. and extracting essence of flowers and other herbs.

Innovator has sold 200 units in different parts of country and one unit has also been exported to Kenya. 45 machines sold last year itself.

NIF engaged a design firm to improve aesthetics, functionality, safety and hygiene and invested through MVIF

Impact

Livelihood generation, Employment to

women

In situ value addition possible

More value to farmer for value added

products

Turnover ~ Rs. 1 cr

Dharamveer Kamboj, Yamuna Nagar, Haryana Innovations

by grassroots

Innovator has developed various innovative clay products

like Mitticool refrigerator, Non Stick Clay Tawa and Clay

cooker. His annual turnover is more than one crore

Mansukh Prajapati

Ta: Wankaner

Dist: Rajkot

Mitticool Clay products…..

• M J Joseph had developed a device under the guidance of his father that helps in climbing coconut or areca nut trees. The palm climber consists of two metal loops that are meant for holding the legs.

• There is a film made on his innovation by Discovery Channel and is very popular on outube.com. Recently, both the innovator and his father unfortunately passed away. NIF facilitated sale of his climber to customers in USA, Maldives, Thailand, Australia, Brazil, Mexico etc.

Tree climber

Innovator: Late M J Joseph, Kerala

Tree cum pole climber by Mr. Venkat D.N, TN

The device makes it simple and easy to climb trees. It is

operated by using hand and leg. Upper frame is operating by

hand and lower frame is operating by leg. By up and down

movement of upper and lower frame one by one man can

climb on tree. Due to sitting arrangement after climbing man

can does work at a desired position on tree.

The idea is to have taps fitted on an inclined pipe so that they are at

different heights. This will enable people of different heights to drink water

easily from tap at appropriate height.

Water taps at public places arranged on an incline Chhaya Thakor, class 7 , Gandhinagar, Gujarat

Adjustable walker

Innovator: Miss Shalini Kumari, Patna, Bihar

• Shalini gave an idea to mechanically alter the height of the legs of the walker so that they can be adjusted as per the height of the stairs.

• NIF converted idea to product • Kavirra Solutions, Nagpur commercialized • Signed MoU with Alimco, a Govt of India Enterprise

Innovator: Mr. Mohammad Mehtar Hussainand & Mushtaq Ahmad, Darrang, Assam

• Looking for a low-cost alternative to pump

water in the fields for the winter crops, the

brothers devised the simple windmill made up

of bamboo and tin sheets. NIF facilitated its

testing at IIT Guwahati.

• Looking at its potential in Gujarat, Grassroots

Innovations Augmentation Network- West

(GIAN –W) has installed several units in the

salt farming area of Kutch in Gujarat for

pumping up brine water and also for simple

farm irrigation purposes. The designs have

been considerably improved with the help of

innovators and other experts.

Low cost windmill

Innovations at grassroots

Simplicity of Design; adding value for different application

Low Cost Windmill For Lifting underground Water or Brine

Windmills for salt farming

Counterpoise method

Using Diesel engines

Salt farming

Facts / Crux of matter: • Blending technological innovation with business /services innovations

resulted into economic and social benefits • Inclusive approach adopted by Innovator created business ecosystem of

all stake holders ( farmers & ginners, SHG’s etc ) • End to End Solution ( offering innovations across cotton ginning value

chain along with services ) offered by innovator succeed him in competition and surviving in the industry

Cotton Stripper by Manskhbhai Patel: An electrician turned an innovator and

later turned an Entrepreneur and

also an angel investor

This ground breaking Innovation has not only reduced drudgery of thousands of farmers but also increased their productivity thereby generating huge income and social benefits as spillover effect in cotton farming and ginning industries

Hand operated water lifting device

• Consists of 2 pairs of chain and sprocket (gear

ratio 1:2), impeller pump and pipes.

• Discharge, irrigation capacity and delivery head

of this device are 20-22,000 l/h, 0.03 ha/h and

0.5 m, respectively.

• It can be used for low head (upto 1 m) and

high discharge application

• One person is required at a time.

• The device has high discharge at low-cost

compared to conventional hand pump and

bicycle operated pumps.

• Can be used for transferring water from canal

to field, from one field to other field

• Can also be used for draining out excess water

from field

• By change of impeller can be used for drainage

of wastes

Innovator : Mr. N Shakthimainthan, Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu

Farmers’ Plant Varieties

Improved Varieties of Wheat, Paddy, Mustard & Pigeon pea Prakash Singh Raghuvanshi, Uttar Pradesh

National Award in 5th National Award function

Testing/Trials: NIF facilitated the trials at NRCRM-Bharatpur, IIPR-Kanpur, NDUA&T Faizabad, CSUAT-Kanpur. IPR Status: Applications for five varieties of wheat and pigeon pea have been filed for registration under PPV&FR Act-2001. Registration certificate has been issued for Kudrat 9 wheat variety. Diffusion Status: 1000 quintal seeds of wheat and paddy varieties distributed to the farmers of Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, Punjab, Bihar, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam and Rajasthan. Commercialized by Aarti Seeds, Pvt Ltd. Nagpur

IPR status: The Application for registration of variety has been filed under PPV& FR Act 2001.

Salient features of the variety

• It is suitable for low hill and plain region.

• Harvesting starts from June month.

• No incidence of scab disease on the fruits.

Diffusion status

Distributed one lakh plants to more than 3000 farmers across the county.

About 10000 saplings were transplanted by NIF-India in two years with the objective of adoption and fruiting study in 29 states & UT.

HRMN-99: Apple variety for sub tropical region Hariman Sharma, Himachal Pradesh

Dalikhana, Rashtrapati bhavan, Delhi May, 2016

Haldwani, May, 2017 Pilibhit, May, 2017

Mind to market: the case of herbavate

Health in a tea cup!

Herbal product development through Pooling Best Practices

Herbal plant growth promoters and pesticides

Sale of grassroots products across six continents

Transfer of three technologies to Kenya

Shujaa/

Bullet Santi

A multipurpose farming

machine for ploughing,

spraying pesticides,

ridge making,

weeding and

interculture.

Fruit and Vegetable

Processing Machine

This is an economical

solution for post harvest

value-addition at the

farm. Makes juice, jam,

jelly, and essential

oils.

Seed and Fertilizer

Dibbler

This is a useful

implement to sow

seeds and apply

fertilizer while

reducing drudgery.

Thank You

Vivek kumar National Innovation Foundation – India

vivekkumar@nifindia.org 9937-395-992

www.nif.org.in

Minds on the margin are not marginal minds

A quote from the report - "In knowledge creation, only

the knowledge created by formal systems has been

considered. This is simply because resource poor

people are considered as sinks and not sources. As

National Innovation Foundation (nif.org.in) has shown,

minds on the margin are not marginal minds. They

create vast amount of knowledge through grassroots

innovation. There must be a way to include this

valuable source of knowledge, as also building a link

between the formal and informal systems, so that the

socio-economic benefits ultimately reach and benefit

the humanity as a whole.

The role of NIF in

knowledge creation

is acknowledged in

"Task Force on

Innovation - Report

on Global Innovation

Index : An Indian

Perspective"...