To make India innovative and adding value to India's outstanding traditional knowledge base
To help India become inventive and creative, and to become a global leader in sustainable technologies without social and economic handicaps affecting the evolution and diffusion of green grassroots innovations
The logo of NIF symbolises the dynamic process of churning of societal minds to throw up the elixir of ideas and innovations. The central dot depicts the identity of the grassroots innovators. Its green colour signifies that NIF would consciously pursue only environment-friendly (green) innovations while striving to expand policies and institutional space for the same.