Hyderabad sources reported that IT and Industries Minister KT Rama Rao launched the first-ever fellowship program of State Innovation Cell and also the first batch of Innovation Fellows were inducted into the cell. According the cell is designed to attract young professionals from different backgrounds to work with the government and drive innovation in the state.
Meanwhile the Telangana State Innovation Cell has invited several partners including Ashoka Innovators for the Public (Ashoka.org) to build the culture of change making in the state. Media reports that the Fellowship will be a one-year program, conceptualized to enable visionary and motivated professionals to work with the government, towards the vision of building an innovation-driven economy in the state.
Furthermore
the selection process was highly competitive where less than one per cent of
the applicants made it to the final selection. Moreover a few projects the
Innovation Fellows are leading include working with schools to promote a
culture of innovation thinking, kick starting innovation and entrepreneurship
activity at district level, promoting startup incubators, creating mentor
ecosystem and promoting grass-root innovators.
