Measures to foster culture of innovation
The National Startup Advisory Council, constituted recently, is to advise the Government on measures needed to build a strong ecosystem for nurturing innovation and startups in the country to drive sustainable economic growth and generate large scale employment opportunities.
The council’s individual names will be notified later, said the Commerce and Industry Ministry on 21 Jan 2020.
The Council will suggest measures to foster a culture of innovation amongst citizens and students, in particular, to promote innovation in all sectors of economy across the country.
These will include semi-urban and rural areas, support creative and innovative ideas through incubation and research and development to transform them into valuable products, processes or solutions to improve productivity and efficiency and create an environment of absorption of innovation in industry.
It will also suggest measures to facilitate public organizations to assimilate innovation with a view to improving public service delivery, promote creation, protection and commercialization of intellectual property rights, make it easier to start, operate, grow and exit businesses by reducing regulatory compliances and costs.
It will also promote ease of access to capital for startups, incentivize domestic capital for investments into startups, mobilize global capital for investments in Indian startups, keep control of startups with original promoters and provide access to global markets for Indian startups.
The Council will be chaired by Commerce & Industry Minister.
The Council will consist of the non-official members, to be nominated by Central Government, from various categories like founders of successful startups, veterans who have grown and scaled companies in India.
It will also have persons capable of representing interests of investors into startups, persons capable of representing interests of incubators and accelerators and representatives of associations of stakeholders of startups and representatives of industry associations.
The term of the non-official members of the Startup Advisory Council will be for a period of two years.
The nominees of the concerned Ministries, Departments and Organisations, not below the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government of India, will be ex-officio members of the Council.
Joint Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade will be the Convener of the Council, said the Ministry. fiinews.com
