Rural Innovations Network was founded in the year 2001. What makes RIN unique is its unique mission of enabling grass-roots innovators to commercialise their innovations and thereby impact rural India. This mission has blended goals. The goal of creating social impact in rural India through self-sustaining business models. Over the past few years, we have created the following impact:

• 300,000 rural users impacted
• Rs 19,50,00,000 of consumer surplus* (social returns) generated
• Rs 6,20,00,000 sales generated by mentored innovations
• 1000 innovators identified through the L-RAMP Innovation Awards Programme, over 30 awarded
• 600 student innovators participate in My Idea Programme
• 81 grassroots innovators pre-incubated through intense trainings
• 151 applications for incubation support
• 47  innovations selected for funding and mentoring support
• 70-80 in NET-WORK of technology and business experts, investors, social entrepreneurs
• Basix, Tata Kisan Sansars, IDEI, BIRD-K are innovation dissemination partners while IIT-Madras, TNAU, PSG, GRI,VIT are technology and outreach partners
  

We also have initiated a very unique programme that will market innovations in rural areas called Samruddhi. Samruddhi markets innovations through a combination of village level stores and village level micro-entrepreneurs.

For more on our work, please visit http://www.rinovations.org   and http://www.lramp.org

We now require talent in the following areas:

Assistant Manager – Innovative Products & Services

Assistant Manager – Supply Chain

Assistant Manager – Field Testing and Trials - IPS

Associate- Marketing & Communication

Associate-Technical Incubation

Associate-Business Incubation

Associate-Research and Documentation