The India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) launched in 2007, is a public-private partnership between Government of India’s Department of Science & Technology (DST) and Lockheed Martin Corporation. The goal of the Programme is to build an innovation pipeline in India. The Programme successfully completed its 10th year in 2016 and has been one of India’s longest standing public-private partnerships. In line with Government of India's push towards start-ups, the program has been revamped to address specific challenges faced by innovators and entrepreneurs in terms of scaling their innovations. Tata Trusts has joined the new program, branded as IIGP 2.0, with a focus on innovations that have strong societal impact and cutting edge industrial innovations...
India Innovation Growth Programme 2.0 launched at Rashtrapati Bhavan
The University Challenge will cater to ideation and incubation of concepts (both industrial and social) sourced from universities across India. Out of 250 expected submissions, 30 will be down-selected as Phase-A finalists (15-Social and 15-Industrial).
As opposed to the University Challenge, the Open Innovation Challenge will cater to innovation and acceleration of concepts (both social and industrial) sourced from the technology community at large and not specifically from the academic arena.
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