The India Innovation Growth Programme (IIGP) 2.0, a tripartite initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, Lockheed Martin and Tata Trusts announced the winners of the 2018 edition in New Delhi. The winners were chosen from among 3,000 applicants who proposed innovations to create large scale social impact and bring industrial transformation in India.
After the second consecutive year of IIGP 2.0 at the Festival of Innovation at Rashtrapati Bhavan earlier this year, this renewed programme aims to support Government of India’s ‘Start-up India’ and ‘Make in India’ initiatives.
The winners have been awarded an amount of Rs. 25 lakhs each. Winners from social innovations category are:
- Aarna Biomedical Products Ltd (Product: Poorti), Green Farming Forever Innovations (Product: Moksh)
- Torchit Electornics Pvt Ltd (Product: Saarthi), 22bate7 Software Pvt Ltd (Product: piCards), TouchVision Tech (Product: TouchVision), CareNX Innovations Pvt. Ltd IIT Bombay (Product: SelfCervi), Shira MedTech Pvt Ltd (Product: Shira Clamp) and Genrobotics Innovations (Product: Bandicoot)
Winners from industrial innovations category are: IIT Madras (Product: AQUA-FI), Delectrik Systems Private Limited (Product: Redox Flow Battery), DRIVAMP LLP (Product: Drivamp), Etrix Technologies Private Limited (Product: BlinkIN), Irov Technologies Private Limited (Product: EyeROV), MakerInMe Technologies Private Limited (Product: Cretile, Manastu Space Technologies Private Limited and Sastra Robotics India Private Limited (Product: SR-Dimenzio)
The winning innovations were evaluated by an esteemed set of jury members on select parameters. Technological innovation, sustainability of the proposed solution, unique value/proposition, development status, social impact and funding required for technology development amongst others were some of the parameters.
A total of 3000 applications were received and evaluated across areas such as assistive technology, healthcare, clean energy, cyber security, data analytics, space technology, education, sanitation, internet of things, fintech etc.
In the last six months, the shortlisted, top 50 Open Innovation Challenge applicants were invited for advanced training sessions on design, readiness of the market and business models at Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, along with a Boot camp at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
