India Innovation Index 2019

(NITI Aayog)

 

WHAT

NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness released the India Innovation Index (III) 2019. Karnataka is the most innovative major state in India. Sikkim takes top spot in the North-eastern region while Delhi topped in UTs.

 

AIM

The aim is to create a holistic tool which can be used by policymakers across the country to identify the challenges to be addressed and strengths to build on when designing the economic growth policies for their regions.

 

HIGHLIGHTS

• The states have been bifurcated into three categories: major states, north-east, and hill states, and union territories/city-states/small states.
• Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Telangana, Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh form the remaining top ten major states respectively.
• Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh are the most efficient states in translating inputs into output.
• The index is a great beginning to improve the environment of innovation as it focuses on both the input and output components of the idea.

 

FEATURES & SIGNIFICANCE

• The Innovative Index would create synergies between stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem and India would shift to competitive good governance.
• India has a unique opportunity among its myriad challenges to become the innovation leader in the world.
• The study examines the innovation ecosystem of Indian states and union territories.

 

INDIAN INNOVATION INDEX

• The India Innovation Index 2019 is calculated as the average of the scores of its two dimensions – Enablers and Performance.
• The Enablers are the factors that underpin innovative capacities, grouped in five pillars: Human Capital, Investment, Knowledge Workers, Business Environment, and Safety and Legal Environment.
• The Performance dimension captures benefits that a nation derives from the inputs, divided in two pillars: Knowledge Output and Knowledge Diffusion.

 

BACKGROUND

The index attempts to create an extensive framework for the continual evaluation of the innovation environment in India and intends to perform the following three functions-

1. Ranking of states and UTs based on their index scores
2. Recognizing opportunities and challenges
3. Assisting in tailoring governmental policies to foster innovation

 

Source: PIB

 

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