[India] National Innovation Foundation

["Irfan Khan" <khania2@super.net.pk>]

National Innovation Foundation  

URL:  http://www.nifindia.org/  

Description:  The goals of the foundation are, according to its web 
site: 1. "To help India become an inventive and creative society and 
a global leader in sustainable technologies." 2. "To ensure evolution 
and diffusion of green grassroots innovations in a time bound and 
mission oriented manner." 3. "To support scouting, spawning, 
sustaining and scaling up of grassroots green innovations and link 
innovation, enterprises and investments." 4. "To strengthen R&D 
linkages between excellence in formal and informal knowledge systems 
and create a Knowledge Network." 5. "To promote wider social 
awareness and possible commercial and non-commercial applications of 
innovations."

source: http://www.developmentgateway.org/content/item-
detail?item_id=271916&version_id=158065