1. Academia need orientation to address the need of industry by having proper delivering channels.
2. Industries should take initiative to bridge invention and commercialization space.
3. Value chain from lab to market needs to be energized.
4. Credibility of Academia with the industry has to be raised.
5. Academia can inculcate the success through knowledge solutions, oriented skill set, set of strong characters and innovation oriented ecosystem.
6. Willingness of Israel to work with the state for exposing latest technologies of Israel and share their ecosystem and approach of innovation.
7. GITA innovation exchange program to encourage the formation of credible network.
8. Willingness of Taiwan to create a concrete collaborative R&I ecosystem.
9. Scaling up of innovation for tackling climate change issues in collaboration with GIZ.
10. Digital innovation is fueling economic growth while ensuring sustainability.
11. Strategic collaborations required for absorbing the AI in the innovation ecosystem. One of the most important challenges is creating skilling needs for the future.
12. Emerging technologies like AI would be essential to solve manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare problems.
13. Participative approach from both industries and academia is the need of the hour.
14. Adequate funding opportunities available for start-ups for ideas which can give solution to larger communities but need to be adequately advertised.
15. Start-ups are skewed up towards service sector. There is a need to balance by skewing it towards manufacturing sector.
16. Regulatory bodies need to align with start-up innovations as specifications are missing from the perspectives of regulatory body.
17. Sustainability, scalability, requirements of high end instrumentation and skills and long gestation period are the major discouraging factors for funding.
18. Three benefits of having a social enterprise in the Government agency i.e Scale, Efficiency & cost cutting for consumers.
19. Support of ventures as long term partners for social innovations under AGNIi initiative.
20. Requirement of Government support and use of right technology to address the key social challenges directed to benefit the weaker sections of the society.
21. Innovative idea of establishing “Virtual ATM’s” in which no hardware is required.
22. Introduction of “Hospital in a Bag” with a fully automated potable device with webcam, speakers, LAN, TV Screen, USB, Bluetooth, etc which will make it easier for a patient to reach doctor sitting at distance to consult & obtain treatment.
23. Strong National Policies & Programs focused on promoting start-up culture has led to emergence of 8 Unicorns, with 20 in pipeline and raising of 7.8 billion dollars in last nine months by Indian start-ups.
24. About 1500 Innovation Cells in the country has led to submission of 1600 POCs by budding innovators, leading to selection of 43 innovators who have been incubated.
25. Key driving factors for any venture to be successful include ideation based on customer / market demand, stakeholder’s dialogue, qualitative prototypes, mentorship at earlier stage, right team constituents, and early revenues.
26. Make industry-academia strong bond with the help of State Science & Technology Department.
27. Grade institutes on the basis of their research & innovation work that being commercialized.
28. Govt. should make Policies simple for cluster development.