National Innovation Foundation

Identifying people with potential for excellence and nurturing them for bigger achievements is the key to building great institutions. This is what Prof Anil Gupta of the Indian Institute of Management-Ahmedabad and Executive Vice-Chair of the Department of Science and Technology’s National Innovation Foundation (NIF) had to say to a group of faculty members at the Symbiosis International University during his visit to Pune in January.

Destined to be at the bottom of the economic pyramid does not necessarily mean they are at the bottom of the ‘innovation’ pyramid as well. A group of students from Latur-based Women Polytechnic Institute in Maharashtra with an ambitious project based on the much-hyped practice of installing 'black boxes' in cars both in the US and the UK for insurance purposes proved this.