The Indian Policy Think Tank, NITI Aayog together with Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion (DIPP) and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has launched India Innovation Index, the nation's first online innovation index portal which will rank and measure innovation performance of all Indian states. It will also encourage states to drive the innovative spirit.
India innovation index will be a one-stop data warehouse and will track progress on each indicator at the National level and the State level on real-time basis, which will consider periodically updated Global Innovation Index indicators and other India-centric data from various states to determine the ranking.
Data collated on this portal will not only be used to ameliorate current data gaps with respect to the GII, but be the prime source for the India Innovation Index. Niti Aayog has said that this will track progress on each indicator at the National level and the State level on real-time basis. The access to the portal will be hosted on the NITI Aayog website. This initiative would enable the international agencies to collect India’s up to date data points for ranking global indices.