Context: Recently, the NITI Aayog has launched the ‘AIM-PRIME’ (Program for Researchers on Innovations, Market-Readiness & Entrepreneurship).
About AIM-PRIME

• It is an initiative of the NITI Aayog’s Atal Innovation Mission (AIM) in partnership with Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF).
• It is a nationwide program which will be implemented by Venture Center (a non-profit technology business incubator).
• The first cohort of the program is open to technology developers (early-stage deep tech start-ups, and scientists/ engineers/ clinicians).
• The program is also open to CEOs and senior incubation managers of AIM Funded Atal Incubation Centers that are supporting deep tech entrepreneurs.
• It is catalyzed by the office of the Principal Scientific Advisor and the Pune Knowledge Cluster.