National Innovation Foundation-india

Building upon the Honey Bee network philosophy the National Innovation Foundation-India (NIF) started functioning in March 2000 as India's national initiative to strengthen the grassroots technological innovations and outstanding traditional knowledge. Its mission is to help India become a creative and knowledge based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators. NIF is committed to look for grassroots innovators who have developed technological innovations in any field of human survival without any outside help. NIF helps them get due reward for their innovations and ensure that such innovations diffuse widely through commercial and non-commercial channels generating incentives for them and others involved in the value chain.With major contribution from the Honey Bee Network NIF has been able to build up a database of more than 1 81000 ideas innovations and traditional knowledge practices (not all unique) from over 555 districts of the country. Through the collaborations with R&D institutions NIF helps in getting these innovations validated and converting them into value added technologies/products.