Rural Innovations Network

Driven by dreams of a prosperous rural India, Rural Innovations Network is a not-for-profit entity based in South India.

Its mission is to identify and incubate grassroots technological innovations developed by innovators that can have a significant impact on rural lives and enable these innovations to reach rural markets. RIN identifies these innovations and helps to develop and market the innovations that have commercial potential.

How do you support young inventors?

We at Rural Innovations Network realize that the young generation of students are our future innovators and entreprenuers and hence it is nessessary that we sow the seed now to see then succeed in the future in this field. They should be given exposure to this sector in thier early days so that they have the option of making a differnce to the most deserving as early as possible.

With various programmes such as the My Idea Programmes, Student Project Funding Scheme and partnering with National Level Business Plan Competitions we ensure a steady inflow of young innovators into our system and this ensures that the innovation ecosystem is ever growing.

How does a young person participate in your program(s)?

A young innovator who is committed to follow his dream of making a difference in rural areas with technology based products can get involved as early as in the Pre-Incubation Programme (PIP). This programme at RIN helps the innovator to understand the nuances of taking his/her product from the idea to the market stage. The PIP allows him/her to question experts in various fields to make him better equipped to become an entrepreneur.

What makes your organization unique?

Rural Innovations Network IS unique. The uniqueness is clear in its mission statement of “Enabling innovations to reach the rural markets and impact the rural poor”.

With programmes such as Pre-Incubation Programme (PIP), Lemelson Recognition and Mentoring Programme(L-RAMP), Samruddhi (last mile outlets), Knowledge Management (KM), User center Innovative Design (UCID), Talent Development Programme (TDP) and InnoCentive we bring together designers, fabricators, patent attorneys, market researchers, lab testing agencies, subject matter experts,mentors, social entrepreneurs, government and investors for the innovator to make his ideas into reality.

For further information on various opportunities at RIN, please visit our website (www.rinovations.org).

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