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Top funds for innovative ideas and startups: Asia — India

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Big companies are relying on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and licensing, with huge funds set aside to grow and consolidate, for continuous and disruptive innovation. Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review. The fund focuses primarily on life sciences, agriculture, energy, water, environment, and healthcare.

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How to enable inclusive innovation

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This hackathon to promote inclusive innovation invited developers to enhance rural lives who did not disappoint, creating winning IoT solutions to problems faced by the agriculture, education, and healthcare sectors. In 2018, UNDP held a hackathon in Lesotho to encourage product innovations for inclusive financial services.

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