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'''Indovation''' (an abbreviation of ‘Indian innovation’) is the process by which [[innovations]] are developed in [[India]] to serve a large number of people affordably and sustainably.The innovations generally provide substantial increase in qualitative benchmarks to offset market competition on frugal marketing budget.

A Govt initiative named SwayamPrabha<ref name=":0" /> harbours different d2h channels dedicated solely for technological innovations in the country and provide a safe space for brand promotions,funding grants and global recognition.Most of the innovators featured on the channel are college students and young professionals. The key idea is that innovators across the country should get access to quality resources for development of new products,marketing support and safety net against global competitive giants.

Access to education and institutional support, such as government grants, are factors associated with increased rates of innovation. Research suggests that public funding can facilitate the development of prototypes and influence productivity and confidence of researchers during the development process.

India has a good track record of frugal innovations as reported in the practice of [[Jugaad]] among India's rural poor.<ref>[http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=592924 2013 Birtchnell, T. Indovation: Innovation and a Global Knowledge Economy in India. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan].</ref> Examples of indovations include the [[Tata Nano]], the [[Tata swach]] water filter, [[Devi Prasad Shetty]]'s affordable cardiac care hospital, the [[SELCO]]'s solar lighting solutions for consumers off the electricity grid and The First Identified Inexpensive Solar Water Filter that was designed and invented by Shripad Krishnarao Vaidya, of Nagpur, Maharashtra, India on 23 April 2010. The Specialty of the water filter is Capillary Pumping Technique.<ref name=":0">Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211208/rRAgznPQ6E0 Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160527155440/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAgznPQ6E0 Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite AV media| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRAgznPQ6E0| title = How to make your own solar water filter at home {{!}} solar water purifier {{!}} What is solar water filter | website=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>Elite World Records Gallery search www.eliteworldrecords.org/</ref><ref>The Hitavada, Thursday, January 19, 2012, Nagpur.</ref><ref>Limca Book of Records 2011, page 255, solar water filter for rural poor.</ref>

The term ''indovation'' was first mentioned in the 2008 book, Smash Innovation,<ref>Gopichand Katragadda., S.M.A.S.H: Innovation:
Smashing The Hand-Mind-Market Barrier, Wiley India,
2008</ref> by Dr. Gopichand Katragadda. It was further developed in 2009 by [[Navi Radjou]], the Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business (CIGB) at the [[Judge Business School]], [[University of Cambridge]]. After several months of field research, CIGB set up a dedicated educational web site called Indovations.net to showcase the affordable and sustainable innovations emanating from India and network Indian entrepreneurs with the rest of the world.<ref>[http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/press_releases/2009/091109_indovations.html Connecting Indian innovators with the world] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113194251/http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/news/press_releases/2009/091109_indovations.html |date=2009-11-13 }}, Cambridge Judge Business School, 2009-11-09</ref> On November 10, 2009 Navi Radjou unveiled Indovations.net at the [[World Economic Forum]]’s India Economic Summit during a panel discussion entitled ‘Creating the Next Indovations’.<ref>{{youtube|id=9v9E7lTiIBE}}</ref>

''[[Financial Times]]'' has published two articles describing the impact of indovation on the rest of the world.<ref>Indian innovators target nation’s high demand, Financial Times, 2010-01-19</ref><ref>The age of ‘indovation’ dawns, Financial Times, 2010-06-15</ref> Similarly, [[Asia Society]] has organized a series of panel discussions throughout 2010 in [[San Francisco]], [[New York City]], [[Hong Kong]], [[Mumbai]], and [[Delhi]], entitled ‘INDOvations: Driving Global Innovations from Emerging Markets’ to explore how India provides a great source of inspiration for both the developed and the developing nations seeking to drive affordable and sustainable business as well as social and cultural innovation.<ref>[http://asiasociety.org/video/business-economics/indovations-complete?page=1 Video archive of Asia Society’s panel on INDOvations in New York City, 2010-01-28]</ref>

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