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23/06/2023

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AIM Introduction

The Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) is a flagship initiative set up by the NITI Aayog to promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the country. The initiative has been set up based on a detailed study and discussions on innovation and entrepreneurial needs of India in the coming years.

AIM will play an important role in alignment of innovation policies between Central, State and Sectoral Innovation Schemes, encouraging the establishment and promotion of an ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship at various levels – Higher Secondary Schools, Science, Engineering and Higher Academic Institutions, and SME/MSME industry, Corporate and NGO levels.

In the longer run, AIM wants to work towards the establishment and promotion of Small Business Innovation Research and Development at a national scale (AIM-SBIR) for the SME/MSME/Start-ups, and in rejuvenating Science . Technology innovations in major research institutions of the country like CSIR (Council of Scientific Industrial Research), Agri Research (ICAR) and Medical Research (ICMR) aligned to national socio-economic needs.

Objectives:

AIM believes that incubators and accelerators have a tough, yet critical, role to play in creating high-potential start-ups. There is a strong need for creating disruptive solutions for the socio-economic challenges within the country. This need is more pronounced post the COVID-19 pandemic that has brought along with it a new world order.

AIM has launched the iCrest program to enable and empower its incubators so that they can nurture and hand-hold to next-gen disruptive startups that shall provide transformative solutions for India and the world and this is aligned with the clarion call of Atmanirbhar Bharat as well.

The core objective of this structured capacity-building program is to enable the incubators to design and implement world-class entrepreneurship programs, make their institution sustainable, and build credibility.

The Program has been designed keeping the following main objectives in view:

Enable Incubators to design a world-class entrepreneur support program that covers all aspects of incubation:
- Sourcing & selection
- Incubation & startup building
- Community engagement and collaborations
- Monitoring progress & tracking growth
- Mentor onboarding & management .

Elements of AIM iCRESt:

incubator structured training

Structured Training Sessions & Workshops delivered digitally
Open House Sessions
Pre-Read and Post-Read Material on the LMS
Progress tracking through LMS
Digital Toolkits, Templates, and Frameworks
Pitch Event
Interaction with Industry Veterans

Startup training

Training for Startup Cohorts through a digital platform
Workshops
Digital Toolkits, Templates, and Frameworks
Check-ins with Trained Fellows
Multiple Networking Opportunities

AIM’s primary goals

To promote innovation and entrepreneurship across the country

Create and facilitate an environment for transformation of ideas into innovative and impactful solutions at schools, universities, research institutions, MSME and industry level across the country

Encouraging innovation at institute level
Supporting tech development, deployment and commercialization in important sectors
Building a robust ecosystem in unserved/underserved regions of India
Supporting research and innovation in MSME Sector

Labs of Atal Tinkering

Do-It-Yourself (DIY) kits for cutting-edge technologies like 3D printers, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and miniature electronics are installed in Atal Tinkering Labs (ATLs), which are dedicated innovation workspaces that range in size from 1200 to 1500 square feet. The government provides a grant of Rs. 20 lakhs to encourage students in grades VI to XII to experiment with these technologies and learn how to develop novel indigenous-use solutions.

The reason for this plan is to encourage interest, advancement and creative mind in youthful personalities; furthermore, to teach abilities, for example, outlook plan, innovative reasoning, versatile learning, actual figuring and so on.

It also organizes competitions at the regional and national levels, exhibitions, workshops on problem solving, product design and manufacturing, lecture series, and other events on a regular basis.

Financial Assistance

AIM will provide a grant-in-aid of Rs. 20 lakhs to each school that includes a one-time establishment cost of Rs. 10 lakh and operational expenses of Rs. 10 lakhs for a maximum period of 5 years to each ATL.

Atal Incubation Centre

It also organizes competitions at the regional and national levels, exhibitions, workshops on problem solving, product design and manufacturing, lecture series, and other events on a regular basis.

Eligibility

Individuals, groups, R&D centers, corporations, alternative investment funds registered with SEBI, business accelerators, and higher education institutions are all eligible to apply.

Financial Support

AIM will provide a grant-in-aid of up to Rs. 10 crores for a maximum period of 5 years to cover the capital and operational expenditures to establish the AIC.

(AIM) Atal New India Challenge (ANIC)

The Atal Innovation Mission’s primary objective is to encourage innovation in India’s most important sectors. Innovative solutions in areas like health, housing, hygiene, energy, and water can have a direct impact on livelihoods for all segments of society. The term “Valleys of Death” has always been used by researchers to describe the early stages of product introduction marketing. The second Commercialization Death Valley, in which innovators lack access to funding for piloting, developing, and building markets, is the focus of the Atal New India Challenge. Complete of 24 difficulties are sent off in organization with five distinct services and divisions of the focal government.

(AIM) Mentor of Change Program

Thousands of Atal Tinkering Labs, start-ups, and incubators across India . are participating in the Mentor of Change Program, a strategic nation-building initiative to recruit leaders . who can guide and mentor students through Atal Innovation Mission programs. The program needs leaders who can spend a few hours each week in labs or with start-ups.. This will give them and then opportunity to experience, learn, and practice. first future skills like design and analytical thinking. as well as ignite their creativity and entrepreneurial spirit.

Mentors should be enablers rather than instructors in such laboratories, which are by definition non-prescriptive.

Some potential contributing factors include, but are not limited to:

Technical expertise: Design and innovation in prototype construction .Promoting a Focus on the Solution Inspirational. Entrepreneurship and self-motivation in business.Sounding Board/Guide for Promoting Innovation and Team Building: Break generalizations . predisposition to achieve mentality and conduct change.

(AIM)Vision of Atal Tinkering Labs

to create adaptable workspaces where young minds can work and learn, learn new skills, and shape ideas through hands-on experiences.
To give our kids 21st-century gifts . for example, imagination, development, decisive reasoning, plan thinking, social and multifaceted cooperation, moral initiative, etc.
to support India’s efforts to become a knowledge economy . the creation of novel solutions to its specific issues.

Atal Community Innovation Center

Atal Innovation Mission took this new initiative in support of the country’s drive for community innovation. The curriculum is aimed at promoting the spirit of creativity to benefit the community through solution oriented design thinking. This will concentrate on the country’s underserved regions that currently lack a thriving ecosystem for start-ups and innovation.

Proposed Focus Areas: Underserved / Unserved regions of Tier 1 / Metro cities, Tier 2 & Tier 3 cities, Smart Cities, Aspirational districts, North-East, J&K and Rural and Tribal regions of India.

Purpose: To provide innovative and sponsored solutions that will inspire students, researchers or any individual / group of individuals to come up with new solutions and develop them. The program provides infrastructure for developing innovation ecosystems in the above-mentioned locations to accomplish this function.

Eligible Academic Applicants	Eligible Non-Academic applicants
UGC and AICTE affiliated Universities / Colleges	Voluntary and other organizations having good experience and exposure in awareness and promotion of Science and Technology in the country.
Educational Institutions like ITIs & other technical diploma colleges

Mechanism for Funding:

The centres are set up either in PPP mode or with funding from PSU and other agencies. Up to Rs. 2.5 crores will be the maximum grant-in-aid support from AIM . following compliance with the program guidelines. contributing matching from the host institutions and their funding partners.

ARISE – Atal Research & Innovation for Small Enterprises

ARISE is an initiative aimed at fostering science, innovation and competitiveness. Indian start-ups and small businesses, including micro, small and medium businesses. The program aims at catalysing research, creativity, seeking solutions to sector specific problems . then triggering the development of new industrial sectors, with the help of Central Government Ministries / Departments, which will become the first buyer of solutions / products innovated by start-ups and small businesses under the ARISE programme.

ARISE will be a multi-phase, multi-sector, and multi-stakeholder initiative to define, fund, direct, manage . procure start-ups and small businesses from India. It aims to inculcate a culture and mentality of engaging and co-creating between industry and government . enhance the capacity of India to import substitute, build export leadership in nation-critical sectors, and provide indigenous solutions to challenges in India.

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