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India as country lacks an enabling policy framework to create an ecosystem of creation and transfer of knowledge, innovation and research from the lab to the market and in other terms making marketable innovation and research.

The ability of a country to sustain its economic growth, increase the standard of living of its citizens and improve human health depends directly upon successful development and access to new products, processes, and services. The country, therefore, needs to address issues that block technology transfer, such as the lack of applicability of research at the industrial level, absence of an active technology transfer mechanism to industry (lab to market), lack of funds for taking forward primary inventions to a transferable level, and institutional attitudes that limit research to just publishing in journals. The purpose of AiA is to: