In news:

• NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) has launched – “Innovations for You”.

 

Atal Innovation Mission (AIM)

• Innovations for You is a digital book that aims to showcase the success stories of Atal Innovation Mission’s Startups in different domains. 
• These startups have worked to create new, disruptive and innovative products, services and solutions that can pave a path for a sustainable future.

 

Atal Innovation Mission

• About:
  • AIM is Government of India’s flagship initiative to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in the country.
• Objective:
  • To develop new programmes and policies for fostering innovation in different sectors of the economy, provide platform and collaboration opportunities for different stakeholders, create awareness and create an umbrella structure to oversee the innovation ecosystem of the country.
• Major Achievement:
  • AIM’s initiatives have played an important contributory role in the advancement of India from a position of 81 in the Global Innovation Index in 2015 to a position of 48 in 2020.

 

Atal Innovation Mission and its Initiatives

• Atal innovation mission(AIM): It was set up by NITI Aayog in 2016 to promote a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship by creating institutions and programs that enhance innovation in schools, colleges, and entrepreneurs in general.
• Atal Tinkering Labs(ATL): It aims to foster curiosity, creativity and imagination in young minds and inculcate skills such as design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing among others.
• Atal Incubation Centres(AICs): These centres have been established at universities, institutions and corporates to foster and support world-class innovation, dynamic entrepreneurs who want to build scalable and sustainable enterprises.
• Atal New India Challenge: It is an initiative aimed at supporting innovators to create products/solutions based on advanced technologies in areas of national importance and social relevance through a grant-based mechanism.
• ​​Atal Community Innovation Centers: They have been launched to encourage a spirit of entrepreneurship in the underserved/unserved regions of India by providing enabling infrastructure and facilitating an environment for innovation.
• Atma Nirbhar Bharat ARISE-ANIC program: It is a national initiative to promote research & innovation and increase the competitiveness of Indian startups and MSMEs.