AIM Compendium of innovations on Technology

NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission released compendium of innovations on December 29, 2021.

Highlights

• The compendium focuses on agriculture featuring 70 start-ups as well as on collection of 41 innovations in technology.
• Both the books are celebration of success stories of young innovators of India.

‘Innovations for You’- compendium

‘Innovations for You’ is a compendium of innovations which focuses on agriculture featuring 70 start-ups. These start-ups are supported by Atal incubation Canters (AICs) of AIM.

‘The Ingenious Tinkerers’ – compendium

The Ingenious Tinkerers is a compendium on “innovations on technology”. It features 41 innovations from Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL) of India.

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

AIM is the flagship initiative of Government of India, launched to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship across India. AIM was set up under NITI Aayog. It was launched with the objective of developing new programmes and policies to foster innovation across different sectors of the economy. It also seeks to provide platform and collaboration opportunities to different stakeholders. This mission has played a significant role in advancing India in Global Innovation Index, from 81^st position in 2015 to 48^th position in 2020.

Atal Tinkering Lab (ATL)

ATLs are being established in schools across India, under the Atal Innovation Missions, with the objective of ‘cultivating one Million children in India as Neoteric Innovators’. These labs seek to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds besides inculcating skills like computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing etc.

Month: Current Affairs - December, 2021