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About Us
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RIN offers rural innovators, entrepreneurs and investors a great deal.
An innovator finds more dispiriting than to see his idea fade away, unrealized. RIN understands what this can do the fire of innovation and strives to ensure that promising ideas receive the support they deserve, within a commercial framework. Consequently, RIN gives innovators vital need-based services that make a real difference to their innovation.
An entrepreneur finds nothing more frustrating than lack of opportunity to start an enterprise. RIN identifies innovations with potential and does thorough homework to ensure that entrepreneurial energy finds the right innovation.
An investor finds nothing more worrying than the search for the elusive, just-right investment. RIN identifies excellent ideas and also finds the enterprise that can take these ideas further. As a result, investors working with RIN find worthwhile projects to invest in.
RIN offers the following specific services to innovators and entrepreneurs through its various programmes.
Recognition: Innovators are offered the much needed recognition through an annual Innovation Awards Programme. This programme aims to award the creative spirit of grass-roots innovators and their supporters such as the media, investors, entrepreneurs.
Pre-Incubation: Our experience indicates that very many innovations fail to meet our selection criteria. Hence, the pre-incubation programme offers coaching and mentoring to those innovators not selected for incubation to help them understand their innovations better with the objective of them refining their innovation
Funding: Innovators seeking funds to incubate their products and services can be funded. Proposals have to be provided to us in this regard. In cases where the innovators need support in developing proposals, RIN will provide specific funding for proposal development also.
Networks: Innovators and Entrepreneurs can leverage the vast networks that RIN has and will continue to build. They are in the form of market outreach partners across India, entrepreneurs, investors and bankers, technology and business experts, donors etc.,
Mentoring: RIN will also offer advisory services and implement product design and development, field trials, test marketing, writing business plans, seeking commercial investments or hybrid capital, technology transfers to private entrepreneurs etc.,
RIN is a registered section 25 company under the Indian Companies Act and has an 80G income tax deduction registration, making all investments in RIN tax deductible.
