India's Path to Progress: Integration of Innovation and Indian Values

Innovation is a process of creating new and improved products, ideas, services, or methods which makes a society relevant in a rapid changing world. It is necessary for survival and growth of a business, competitive advantage, meeting customer needs, and societal and global progress. Values are important because they set the direction of innovation. Innovation can be promoted by compliance of National Education Policy-2020, interest-based skill development, increasing funds in research and development, collaboration between research and corporates, and artificial intelligence. Indian values are deeply rooted in our rituals, traditions, and ethical principles comprising knowledge, family integrity, social harmony, ecofriendly and sense of duties. Indian values foster a collectivist society with social harmony having the intention to go together, mutual interaction, knowing each other?s mind and working with collaboration with everyone. The innovation under the patronization of Indian values will be able to take India on the path of progress through sustainable development, self-dependence, social upliftment, synergy between technology and ethics, and respect of diversity and democracy.