My unstarred question in Parliament to the Ministry of Planning sought to understand what happens to the ideas created in Atal Tinkering Labs.
Tamil Nadu has 975 operational ATLs, with 9.19 lakh students engaged and 36,509 prototypes developed.
The next step must be to take the best of these ideas beyond the lab: provide patent support, connect promising projects to Atal Incubation Centres, offer milestone-based seed funding, and help them find industry partners and real-world pilot opportunities.
We must measure the journey from prototype to patent, incubation, capital, pilot deployment and venture creation.
The objective should be to ensure that a promising idea does not end with a school project and a prototype, but gets the institutional support to become a viable venture.
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