OREANDA-NEWS. The D/o Science & Technology as part of the new initiative Science, Technology, Innovation and Creation of Knowledge (STICK) has brought out a national report entitled” Understanding Innovation: Indian National Innovation Survey” with social  focus on MSMEs.

The national report, first of its kind, benchmarks innovation potentiality of Indian firms in terms of innovations activities, sources of innovation, linkages, human resource, effects and factors affecting innovation activities. The report is based on the analysis of sample survey of 9001 firms, largely MSMEs, spread across 26 states and 05 Union Territories across various industrial sectors in the country.

The report highlights fundamental issues related to innovations in the context of developing economies and provides inputs for devising evidence based policy prescriptions or recommendations for strengthening the innovation infrastructure and growth of MSMEs  in the country.