INTRODUCTION:
PRISM along with its network partners provides grants, technical guidance and mentoring to individual innovators by incubating their idea towards creation of new enterprises in phases. It also provides grant-in- aid support to technology solution providers developing technology solutions aimed at helping MSME cluster. Proposals are invited from individual innovators and technology solution providers under PRISM schemes for financial assistance.BACKGROUND:
- The "Technopreneur Promotion Programme" (TePP) was launched in 1998-99 by the Ministry of Science and Technology, GOI.
- TePP earlier jointly operated by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) and Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST).
- Presently operated by DSIR, New Delhi alone since May 2008.
- TePP scheme relaunched with new name “PRISM” in 2014.
- TePP/PRISM is a mechanism to promote individual innovators to become Technology-based Entrepreneurs (Technopreneurs).
OBJECTIVES:
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To promote and support untapped creativity of individual innovators
- To assist the individual innovators to become Technopreneurs
- To assist the Technopreneur in networking and forge linkages with other Constituents of the Innovation chain for commercialization of their Developments.
THRUST AREAS:
The proposals shall preferably be considered in the following focus sectors: Green Technology, Clean Energy, Industrially Utilizable Smart Materials, Waste to Wealth, Affordable Healthcare, Water & Sewage Management and Any Other Technology or Knowledge Intensive Area.
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