{"id":4043,"date":"2019-07-25T09:17:55","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2019-07-25T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T09:17:56","slug":"india-ranked-52nd-in-global-innovation-index-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/india-ranked-52nd-in-global-innovation-index-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"India Ranked 52nd in Global Innovation Index-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways, PiyushGoyal, launchedthe Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019 in New Delhi. India Ranked 52nd<\/sup> in Global Innovation Index-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking on this occasion\nCommerce and Industry Minister first congratulated all those involved in the\nprocess and said that India has made a significant progress to 52nd rank in the\nGlobal Innovation Index and now the culture of innovation is coming to the\ncentre-stage. He said that India will continue its efforts to reach upwards of\ntop 50 ranks in the GII that Prime Minister, Narendra Modi set a goal. He\nfurther said that India will not rest on past laurels until it achieves its\ntarget of positioning itself among the top 25 countries of the Global\nInnovation Index. To achieve this ranking he urged all stakeholders to work in\nmission mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Piyush Goyal urged the R&D\ninstitutions, universities and private sector to transform the country into a\nhub of innovation. The Commerce and Industry Ministry requested the World\nIntellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to factor in India\u2019s rural innovation\nas part of the innovation index in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commerce and Industry Minister in\nhis address said that the improvement in the rankings should inspire Indians to\nhelp marginalized and under privileged section of society and R&D must\nprovide sustainable solutions to the problems that India is facing at present\nlike rising pollution levels in cities, water crises faced in different parts\nof the country, depleting natural resources, issues of climate change and\nsolving problems of food wastage. All these problems that the country is facing\nshould be solve through innovative ideas. The Commerce and Industry Minister\nfurther added that India must be a responsive country and work in mission mode\nby engaging with academia, private sector and government agencies to improve\nthe quality of citizens\u2019 lives even in the remotest parts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Referring to Global Innovation\nIndex theme of this year which is Creating Healthy Lives – The Future of\nMedical Innovation, Piyush Goyal said that Government of India is focusing on\nnot just curative but preventive healthcare where wellness becomes a part of\nsociety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Global Innovation Index\nrankings are published every year by Cornell University, INSEAD and the UN\nWorld Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) and GII Knowledge Partners.\nThis is the 12th edition of the Global Innovation Index rankings of 129\neconomies based on 80 indicators ranging from intellectual property filing\nrates to mobile-application creation, education spending and scientific and\ntechnical publications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Switzerland remains number one is\nthe GII index followed by Sweden, the United States of America, the\nNetherlands, the United Kingdom, Finland, Denmark, Singapore, Germany and\nIsrael. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Union Minister of Commerce & Industry and Railways, PiyushGoyal, launchedthe Global Innovation Index (GII) 2019 in New Delhi. India Ranked 52nd in Global Innovation Index-2019. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2019 Speaking on this occasion Commerce and Industry Minister first congratulated all those involved in the process and said that India has made a significant progress […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[254],"class_list":["post-4043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-articles","tag-global-innovation-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4045,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4043\/revisions\/4045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}