New Delhi: Odisha is steadily becoming an innovative hub as the State has ranked 12th position in the India Innovation Index (III) 2019 released by the NITI Aayog.
Karnataka is the most innovative major state in India followed by Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Telangana, Haryana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Gujarat, and Andhra Pradesh form the remaining top ten major states.
Delhi, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, and Uttar Pradesh are the most efficient states in translating inputs into output the release stated.
The index was released in the presence of Dr. Rajiv Kumar, Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog; Amitabh Kant, CEO, NITI Aayog; Ashutosh Sharma, Secretary, Department of Science; Renu Swarup, Secretary, Department of Biotechnology and Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, Secretary, AYUSH.
The India Innovation Index would create synergies between different stakeholders in the innovation ecosystem and India would shift to competitive good governance, said Dr. Rajiv Kumar.
The index measures innovation inputs through five enabler parameters and innovation output through two performance parameters. While human capital, investment, knowledge workers, business environment, safety and legal environment have been identified as enabler parameters, knowledge output and knowledge diffusion have been selected as performance parameters.