Karnataka ranked the most ‘innovative’ State by the National Manufacturing Innovation Survey

Karnataka ranked the most ‘innovative’ State by the National Manufacturing Innovation Survey

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Category : National Published on: May 06 2023

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  • The National Manufacturing Innovation Survey (NMIS) 2021-22 has ranked Karnataka as the most “innovative” State.
  • It is a joint study by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  • Karnataka was followed by Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, Telangana, and Tamil Nadu.
  • Telangana, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu had the highest share of innovative firms at 46.18%, 39.10% and 31.90%, respectively, with Odisha, Bihar, and Jharkhand reporting the lowest share of such firms at 12.78%, 13.47% and 13.71%, respectively.
  • Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu reported the highest frequencies of barriers to innovation.
  • Nearly three-fourths of the 8,000-odd firms surveyed, most of them micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSME), neither made any innovative product nor business process innovation during the survey period of financial years 2017-2020.
  • The first National Innovation Survey was held in 2011.
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