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Karnataka has bagged the top rank in NITI Aayog’s Innovation Index, 2022, which determines innovation capacities and ecosystems at the subnational level.
NITI Aayog’s Innovation Index, 2022
- Karnataka has retained its top spot in the ‘Major States’ category, followed by Telangana and Haryana.
- Manipur has emerged as the best performer among the north-eastern and hilly states, followed by Uttarakhand and Meghalaya.
- Among the Union Territories and city-states, Chandigarh is the top performer, followed by Delhi.
- Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Bihar and Gujarat were at the bottom of the index.
The India Innovation Index
- It is released by NITI Aayog and the Institute for Competitiveness every year.
- The index attempts to create an extensive framework for the continuous evaluation of the innovation environment in all States and Union Territories.
- It plans to carry out the following three tasks.
- Using index scores to rank the states and Union Territories.
- Identifying opportunities and challenges.
- Helping to create government policies that encourage innovation.
- The states have been bifurcated into three categories:
- Major states,
- Northeast and hill states, and
- Union Territories/city-states/small states.
- The India Innovation Index parameters:
- Patents per million of population.
- Publication in scientific journals.
- Percentage of GDP spending on research.
- Demographic dividend and other economy-specific parameters.
- The number of PhD students and knowledge-intensive employment.
- FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) inflows.
- Enrolment in engineering and technology and the number of highly skilled professionals.
The Global Innovation Index.
- The Global Innovation Index is an annual ranking of countries by their capacity for, and success in, innovation.
- It was started in 2007 by INSEAD (Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires) and World Business, a British magazine.
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