Lok Sabha Question No. 1543 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-03-05
Subject: Promotion of Innovation
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: MEENAKASHI LEKHI

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL POLICY & PROMOTION

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1543. TO BE ANSWERED ON MONDAY, THE 5 TH  MARCH, 2018.

## PROMOTION OF INNOVATION

## 1543.  SHRIMATI MEENAKASHI LEKHI:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY be pleased to state:

## वाणिज् यवव द्योग म त्री

- (a) whether the Government has launched any scheme to provide incubators for innovative idea in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof including the funds allocated for the purpose;
- (c) whether the Government is planning to invite foreign investments to promote innovation in the country; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof?

## ANSWER

## वाणिज् यवव द्योग म त्रालयमेंराज् यम त्री(श्री सी.आर.चौधरी) THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (SHRI C.R. CHAUDHARY)

- (a) & (b): Yes,  Madam. Various Government Departments viz. Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Department of Science and Technology (DST), Department of Bio-technology (DBT), NITI Aayog have launched schemes in this regard.
- I) MHRD  is  setting  up  Incubation  centers/Research  Parks  in  the institutions of higher learning independently or in conjunction with DBT and DST.  MHRD had set up one such Research Park at IIT Madras.  Further, DST and MHRD have jointly taken up initiative for establishment of Research Parks, Technology Business Incubators  and  Startup  Centres.    A  National  Expert  Advisory Committee  (NEAC)  was  constituted  and  15  Startup  Centres,  15 Technology  Business  Incubators  (TBIs)  and  6  Research  Parks were selected. Lists of the institutions are provided at Annexure .
- II) DST  has  also  launched  a  program  named  NIDHI-PRAYAS (National  Initiative  for  Developing  and  Harnessing  Innovations  Promoting  and  Accelerating  Young  and  Aspiring  innovators  & startups)  in  which  established  Technology  Business  Incubators (TBI) are supported with PRAYAS grant to support innovators and incubatee  for  'Proof  of  Concept'  and  developing  prototypes.  A maximum grant of Rs. 220 lakh is given to a TBI for establishing a PRAYAS Centre which includes Rs. 100 lakh for PRAYAS SHALA, Rs. 20 lakh for operational cost of PRAYAS Centre and maximum

of Rs. 10 lakh to one innovator for developing prototype. Funding for ten innovators is given to the TBI in a year.

- III) DBT through  its  Public  Sector  Enterprise  Biotechnology  Industry Research Assistance Scheme (BIRAC) has launched Bioincubators  Nurturing  Entrepreneurship  for  Scaling  Technologies (BioNEST) programme  with an aim to establish world class incubation centers across  the  country.  BioNEST  programme provides support to establish bio-incubators either as a standalone entity or as a part of the academia. So far, 30 bio-incubators in the country  with  a  cumulative  area  of  3,00,000  sq.  ft.  for  budding entrepreneurs have been supported with a total sanctioned cost of Rs. 212 crore.
- IV) The  Atal  Innovation  Mission  at  NITI  Aayog  runs  a  programme called Atal Incubation Centres, which provides grants to establish and scale up incubators. These incubators can assist startups and innovators to commercialize their technologies. An amount of Rs 500  crore  was  allocated  for  Atal  Innovation  Mission,  for  all  its programmes. As of 2017-18, 19 incubators have been selected for support  with  a  maximum  of  Rs  10  crore  each,  but  varying according to their stated needs in their business plans.
- V) Department  of  Industrial  Policy  and  Promotion  (DIPP)  has  also setup the Startup India Online Hub which provides a comprehensive  list  of  incubators  which  are  available  throughout the  country  for  Startups  who  are  interested  in  developing  their innovative ideas.
- (c) & (d): No specific proposal to invite foreign investments to promote innovation in  the  country  is  under  consideration  of  Department  of  Industrial  Policy and  Promotion.  However,  Government  has  put  in  place  an  investorfriendly policy, wherein except for a small negative list, most sectors are open for 100% FDI under the Automatic route including innovation / R&D, subject to applicable laws/ regulations; security and other conditionalities.

Further,  in  order  to  promote  innovation  in  the  country,  the  India-Israel Innovation  Bridge  was  launched  on  6 th July  2017.  The  bridge  is  a technology platform that facilitates cooperation between Indian and Israeli Startups,  tech  hubs,  corporations  and  other  key  innovation  eco-system players. As part of this, an innovation challenge was launched to invite solution for critical problems in the field of Agriculture, Water and Digital Health. This initiative will allow innovative Startups from Israel to explore setting up their business in India, thereby attracting foreign investments.

Similarly, DIPP has also setup the 'India Portugal Startup Hub' and the 'Sweden India Startup Sambandh Hub' portals on the Startup India Hub, to attract and facilitate innovative Startups from Portugal and Sweden to explore the Indian markets.

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## ANNEXURE-

## ANEXURE REFERED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) & (b) OF THE LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 1543 FOR ANSWER ON 05.03.2018.

## List of institutes selected for setting up Incubators/ Research Parks

|   SI No | Institutions                                                                                                   | Selected for                          | Funds allocated                                                        |
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|       1 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubneshwar, Odisha                                                       | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       2 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Delhi, New Delhi                                                       | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       3 | Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh                                | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       4 | Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (NIT), VNIT, Nagpur, Maharashtra                                 | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       5 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Arunachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh                                   | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       6 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Silchar, Assam                                                         | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       7 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Agartala, Tripura                                                      | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       8 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Goa, Goa                                                               | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|       9 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (ABV ) Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|      10 | PDPM-Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh              | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|      11 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, Madhya Pradesh                                                    | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|      12 | Pondicherry University, R. Venkataraman Nagar, Kalapet, Puducherry, UT Puducherry                              | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|      13 | Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh                                                  | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|      14 | Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MNIT), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh                                   | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|      15 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad                                         | Start up Centres                      | Rs.50 lakh per year, jointly provided by MHRD & DST, in ratio of 50:50 |
|      16 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, Himachal Pradesh                                                  | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      17 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Ropar, Punjab                                                            | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      18 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar, Punjab                                                      | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      19 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Rourkela, Odisha                                                       | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      20 | Malaviya National Intitute of Technology (MNIT), Jaipur, Rajasthan                                             | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      21 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Roorkee, Uttrakhand                                                      | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      22 | Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Rohtak, Haryana                                                          | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      23 | Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Raipur, Chhatisgarh                                                      | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |
|      24 | Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Kozhikide, Kerala                                                        | Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) | Funding to the tune of Rs. 3-5 crore from DST                          |

|   25 | Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Udaipur, Rajasthan                                                     |
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|   26 | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh                           |
|   27 | Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design, Manufacturing (IIITDM), Kancheepuram, Chennai, Tamilnadu |
|   28 | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala                       |
|   29 | National Institute of Technology (NIT), Calicut, Kerala                                                      |
|   30 | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, Punjab                                   |
|   31 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar, Gujarat                                                    |
|   32 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad, Telangana                                                    |
|   33 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi                                                        |
|   34 | Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, Karnataka                                                      |
|   35 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh                                                   |
|   36 | Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, Assam                                                         |

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