Chintan Vaishnav

The writer works at the Atal Innovation Mission, NITI Aayog

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What Startup20 provides the worldSubscriber Only

July 26,2025 07:01:51 AM

When we launched Startup20 in India, the overarching objective was to produce policy recommendations to harmonise the global start-up ecosystem while retaining the autonomy and vibrant diversity of national ecosystems

Sat, Jul 26, 2025

The right way to study AISubscriber Only

April 12,2025 07:06:06 AM

AI Maker Labs can bridge the gap between artificial intelligence as distant technology and as lived experience. They can help build a generation that doesn’t just consume AI, but questions it, builds with it, adapts it

Sun, Apr 13, 2025

How India can lead the way in transformative innovationsSubscriber Only

January 28,2025 07:17:27 AM

It must focus on overcoming fundamental constraints in existing technologies.

Tue, Jan 28, 2025

What is transforming this land renowned for its picturesque landscapes and vibrant culture into a hub of innovation and creativity? (Illustration by C R Sasikumar)

In J&K, school-going innovators show the waySubscriber Only

December 26,2024 07:10:25 AM

From schools addressing silent deaths in the winters to providing solutions for the pressing case of flash floods - what J&K has shown us is that if we were prepared to build innovation ecosystems conducive to their context, then they have both the hunger and capability to lead the nation. These problems might be hyperlocal, but their solutions can have national and global applications

Thu, Dec 26, 2024

Lessons from Tata’s Nano: Learn from communities before solving for themSubscriber Only

November 15,2024 04:10:55 AM

Top research universities have a well-developed structure to enable students to find good research questions and answer them with rigorous research. What most don’t yet have is the ability to invoke questions from the field, that too about resource-poor environments

Fri, Nov 15, 2024

Making India a start-up nationSubscriber Only

September 12,2024 07:08:39 AM

More students should be encouraged to launch entrepreneurial ventures. This will deliver large gains to the economy

Thu, Sep 12, 2024

Lessons in how to build an innovation ecosystemSubscriber Only

November 03,2023 07:07:29 AM

Communities are crucial to the success of such initiatives by the government

Fri, Nov 03, 2023

G20’s Startup20 Engagement Group: A SUMup of ideasSubscriber Only

March 11,2023 07:05:59 AM

A bundling together of complementary start-ups could help tackle the global challenge of sustainable development

Sat, Mar 11, 2023

India’s G20 presidency | Innovations double engine: Start up, scale upSubscriber Only

February 16,2023 07:15:24 AM

Startup20 Engagement Group, the only new group at the G20, is the first step in ‘ambidexterity’ – using the innovating capacity of startups along with stability and scale of corporations

Thu, Feb 16, 2023