Under the vertical Mainstreaming Grassroots Innovations & Traditional Knowledge Practices, Informal institutions such as National Innovation Foundation – India and SRISTI were taken into account by finding out the processes evolved over time to mainstream grassroots Innovations and Traditional Knowledge systems. To understand the process field visits were conducted to different institutes and collaborations were made with the following institutes to understand the grassroot innovations.
Field visit and to NIF-India
Field visit to SRISTI Labs
Field visit to a local NGO “Palle Srujana”