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India Innovation Index 2019:-

NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness released the India Innovation Index (III) 2019.

About the Index:-

NITI Aayog with Institute for Competitiveness as the knowledge partner has released the India Innovation Index 2019.

 The index’s objective is to rank Indian states on innovations through the portal that will capture data on innovation from all states on innovation and regularly update it in real-time.

 The aim of the index is to create a holistic tool which can be used by policymakers across the country to identify the challenges to be addressed and strengths to build on when designing the economic growth policies for their regions.

 The states have been bifurcated into three categories: major states, north-east and hill states, and union territories/city-states/small states.

 The India Innovation Index 2019 is calculated as the average of the scores of its two dimensions

 Enablers

 Performance

 The Enablers are the factors that underpin innovative capacities, grouped into five pillars:
(i) Human Capital,
(ii) Investment
(iii) Knowledge Workers
(iv) Business Environment,
(v) Safety and Legal Environment.

 The Performance dimension captures benefits that a nation derives from the inputs, divided into two pillars:

 Knowledge Output

 Knowledge Diffusion.

Highlights of the index:-

Karnataka is the leader in the overall rankings in the category of major states.
  • Karnataka’s number one position in the overall ranking is partly attributed to its top rank in the Performance dimension and also among the top performers in Infrastructure, Knowledge Workers, Knowledge Output and Business Environment.


 Among the category of major states, Maharashtra performs the best in the dimension of Enablers.

 Sikkim and Delhi take the top spots among the northeastern & hill states, and union territories/city-states/small states respectively.
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