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WHAT IS iDEX?

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.

CORE Objectives

Facilitate
Facilitate

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
Create

Create a culture of engagement with innovative startups, to encourage co-creation for defence
and aerospace sectors

Empower
Empower

Empower a culture of technology co-creation and co-innovation within the defence and aerospace sectors.

What we do

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.

01.Challenge curation

Organising various challenges / hackathons to shortlist potential technologies for defense and aerospace application.

02.Outreach

Outreach and sourcing of innovations

03.HPSC Screening & Selection

Evaluate technologies and products in terms of their utility and impact on the Indian defense and aerospace setup.

04.Spark grants appraisal & contracts

Enable and fund pilots, using innovation funds dedicated to the purpose.

05.product co-development

Interface with the military (Army/Navy/Airforce) top brass about key innovtive technologies & encourage their adoption with suitable assistance.

06.product acceptance & certification

Facilitate scale-up indigenization and integration in manufacturing facilities for successful piloted technologies.

Defence india
startup challenge

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.

Defence india startup challenge

Vision of DISC

Help new tech products

Help new tech products/technologies find a market and early customer (commercialization) in the form of the Indian Defence Establishment.

Create functional prototypes

Help create functional prototypes of products/technologies relevant for national security (prototyping), and spur fast-moving innovation in the India defence sector.

Numbers That Matter

300

Challenges

362

Winners

3 | 16

Services  | DPSUs & Other's

28

Partner Incubators

7500+

Applications

1300+

Shortlisted

23

Nodal Agencies

INR 330+

Crore Grant Approved

OUR PARTNERS

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.

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