GIAN is an incubator of grassroots innovations and traditional knowledge GIANs have been setup at Ahmedabad & Jaipur for providing incubation support to grassrots innovators from the regions of West and North India, respectively. In addition, GIAN Cells are present at SSIT, Tumkur, TCE, Madurai in South India, Kashmir University in J&K, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology in Sikkim, NIF cell has been setup in Assam at IIT Guwahati.
