{"id":310472,"date":"2019-03-15T11:44:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=310472"},"modified":"2019-03-15T11:44:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:44:12","slug":"president-ram-nath-kovind-inaugurates-festival-of-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-in-gandhinagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/president-ram-nath-kovind-inaugurates-festival-of-innovation-and-entrepreneurship-in-gandhinagar\/","title":{"rendered":"President Ram Nath Kovind inaugurates Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Gandhinagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-310473 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Kovind-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"537\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Kovind-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Kovind-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Kovind-696x466.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Kovind-628x420.jpg 628w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/03\/Kovind.jpg 813w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday inaugurated the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Gandhinagar, Gujarat and also presented the 10th\u00a0Biennial National Grassroots Innovation Awards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Speaking on the occasion, Kovind said, \u201cas we seek to meet important developmental goals and build a caring, inclusive and happy society, we have to draw upon the power of innovation to find solutions to India\u2019s concerns in diverse domains such as health, education, food security, energy access, environmental protection, and national security.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">He further said, \u201cWe have to make all efforts to promote an innovation culture and become an innovation society. This will provide us the best possibility of ensuring that every young Indian will have an opportunity to realise his or her true potential.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">President Kovind said that an innovative idea in itself is not enough. It is important to ensure that a creative idea gets the support it needs for its maturing, diffusion and delivery on the ground. Innovation itself is only the first of two key drivers to ensure that any innovation becomes actionable. The second key driver is entrepreneurship, which needs to supplement innovation so as to deliver benefits to our fellow citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cWe need to build an ecosystem for converting innovations into enterprises. This requires backing for start-ups and for incubating young innovators by providing financial, mentoring and policy support,\u201d Kovind added.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ram Nath Kovind on Friday inaugurated the Festival of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Gandhinagar, Gujarat and also presented the 10th\u00a0Biennial National Grassroots Innovation Awards.\u00a0 Speaking on the occasion, Kovind said, \u201cas we seek to meet important developmental goals and build a caring, inclusive and happy society, we have to draw upon the power of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":310473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2838,2014,2026],"tags":[11101,11100,3131,593,1452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310474,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310472\/revisions\/310474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/310473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}