Catalyzed and Supported by:National Council for Science and Technology Communication, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Empowering Tribal Children in Science and Technology for Innovation leading to Entrepreneurship - District Shravasti (Uttar Pradesh)

WELCOME TO Innovation India

Innovation, according to the United Nations Education Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Okoye (2012), is a general change that is deliberate and must never be regarded as simple adjustment. Continuing, UNESCO added that innovation refers to any persistent change in the patterns of behavior of members of an identifiable social system. It is a novel departure from a customary practice that can be sustained for some time which is situational and relevant to a group in time and place, and when widely adopted, it becomes a reform. Innovation is a technique, idea, a practice or an object that is perceived by an individual or another unit as new (Nwafor, 2007). Microsoft (2009) sees Innovation as the act or process of inventing or introducing something new. It is also a new invention or way of doing something. Furthermore, Innovation is a change in the thought process of doing things or the useful application of inventions and discoveries (McGeown 2011). From these definitions, it implies that when new inventions and discoveries are put in practice, or a successful introduction of a better thing/method, therefore, innovation could have taken place. Innovation is also a process that renews or improves something that exists. It is the act of introducing new ideas in order to improve or make an existing one more effective.

Objective
  • Innovation is the specific function of entrepreneurship, whether in an existing business, a public service institution, or a new venture started by alone individual in the family kitchen. It is the means by which the entrepreneur either creates new wealth-producing resources or endows existing resources with enhanced potential for creating wealth
  • Innovation is commonly defined as the "carrying out of new combinations" that include "the introduction of new goods, ... new methods of production, ... the opening of new markets, ... the conquest of new sources of supply ... and the carrying out of a new organization of any industry"
  • The broad objective of this project is to empower Children in rural India and to make them think innovatively with scientific vision.