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Closing the Gaps in the inclusive Innovation Ecosystem: The innovation ecosystem has to be more  inclusive  to accommodate  the aspirations of rural or small town innovators and start-ups.  Several reforms and improvements  have taken place in...

Honey Bee Network and GIAN have jointly organized first International annual competition for creative & Innovative ideas or traditional knowledge practices, which solve day-to-day problems faced by society including animals, the environment, or us. HBNCRIIA award...

Electronic People’s  Biodiversity Register [E-PBR] as the means triggering widespread Bio-entrepreneurship After years of efforts, significant efforts have been made in setting up Biodiversity Management Committees in more than 200,000 villages leading to an equal number...

Strengthening grassroots innovation ecosystem: ideas for action Over the last three decades, Honey Bee Network volunteers and institutions spawned by it  viz., SRISTI [Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institutions], GIAN [Gujarat Grassroots...

Press Note Dr A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Ignited Mind Children Creativity and Innovation Awards, 2020 In the memory of Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the Honey Bee Network, SRISTI and GIAN have jointly organized an annual...

The farmer leaders are demanding: an assurance that their farm produce will be procured whether in APMC or outside at minimum support price [MSP]; in the contract farming there should be a more helpful mechanism to...

The connection between the growth and development of the brain of a child up to six years and education in mother tongue is an extremely poignant point of the new education policy.  It is scientifically valid...

The new education policy requires higher education to: ….. …form the basis for knowledge creation and innovation thereby contributing to a growing national economy. The purpose of quality higher education is, therefore, more than the creation...

Anil k Gupta Inclusive Innovations help in overcoming  either one or more of the six factors that could exclude people from the benefit of their impact such as spatial, sectoral, seasonal or temporal, social, skill and...

A manifesto for ‘migrants’: Towards a new social contract The conditions in which  a  large number of wage workers lived during the lockdown period and then went back to their homes in different states have bruised...