Facilitate rapid development of new, indigenized, and innovative technologies for the Indian defence and aerospace sector, to meet needs for these sectors in shorter timelines
An ecosystem to foster innovation & technology development in. Defence and Aerospace by engaging innovators & entrepreneurs to deliver technologically advanced solutions for modernizing Indian Military.
iDEX will engage Industries including MSMEs, start-ups,individual innovators, R& D institutes and academia and provide them grants/funding and other support to carry out R&D development which has good potential for future adoption for Indian defence and aerospace needs.
Facilitate rapid development of new, indigenized, and innovative technologies for the Indian defence and aerospace sector, to meet needs for these sectors in shorter timelines
Create a culture of engagement with innovative startups, to encourage co-creation for defence
and aerospace sectors
Empower a culture of technology co-creation and co-innovation within the defence and aerospace sectors.
The SPARK grants - offered to startups selected through the DISC initiatives launched under the iDEX banner, are aimed at catalyzing open innovation enabling Indian innovators and entrepreneurs to deliver technologically advanced solutions to the Indian military. The primary goal, therefore, is delivering defence grade products to address the needs of the military identified through the challenges. In order to achieve this these open innovation steps are taken up by the iDEX Program Management Unit.
Organising various challenges / hackathons to shortlist potential technologies for defense and aerospace application.
Outreach and sourcing of innovations
Evaluate technologies and products in terms of their utility and impact on the Indian defense and aerospace setup.
Enable and fund pilots, using innovation funds dedicated to the purpose.
Interface with the military (Army/Navy/Airforce) top brass about key innovtive technologies & encourage their adoption with suitable assistance.
Facilitate scale-up indigenization and integration in manufacturing facilities for successful piloted technologies.
Taking the iDEX initiative further, Defence India Startup Challenge "has been launched by Ministry in partnership with AIM, aimed at supporting Startups / MSMEs / Innovators to create prototypes and / or commercialize products / solutions in the area of National Defence and Security.
Help new tech products/technologies find a market and early customer (commercialization) in the form of the Indian Defence Establishment.
Help create functional prototypes of products/technologies relevant for national security (prototyping), and spur fast-moving innovation in the India defence sector.
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iDEX envisages to work with India’s leading incubators, which would help in discovery and exploration of Startups/MSMEs that can perform the function of co-creation.