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Innovation

Principles of Innovation: What India’s Top Entrepreneurs and Investors Say Truly Matters

On World Creativity & Innovation Day 2025, we explore what truly defines transformative innovation through the eyes of India's most impactful innovators.

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April 21, 2025
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Plastic Waste Management

From Landfills to Oceans: India’s Struggle with Plastic Waste Reaches Critical Levels

India, generating a staggering 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste daily, faces severe impacts on human health, ecosystems, and the climate.

May 15, 2024
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Plastic Waste Management

Championing Sustainability: MIF’s Vision for a Plastic-free Future

How MIF is facilitating investments, market access, and circularity by supporting innovators in the plastic waste management space.

May 7, 2024
Scale-Up Program

How We Build Soonicorns At Our Startup Accelerator, Scale-Up

Scale-Up, MIF’s exclusive no-equity accelerator program for Indian startups, played a vital role in building two Soonicorns.

May 2, 2024
MIF In The Press

Interview: MIF Founder Harsh Mariwala on Driving Innovation and Sustainability in India

In an interview with The Indian Express, Mr Mariwala discusses his efforts to build mentorship and peer support networks for Indians startups to foster impact-driven innovation, particularly in the circular economy space.

March 17, 2024
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MIF In The Press

Coming Together to Improve Waste Management in India’s Hill Towns

A new collaboration featured in The Hindu aims to tackle zero-value plastics and combustible waste in Coonoor, potentially expanding to Ooty.

March 7, 2024
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MIF In The Press

MIF’s Pathways to Drive Innovation in the Sustainability Space

A stocktake of MIF’s efforts to drive scalable innovation in the plastic waste management space so far, and the road ahead—as featured in The Hindu BusinessLine.

March 1, 2024
MIF In The Press

Stock Take: Startups from MIF’s Plastics Portfolio Deliver Climate Impact

An overview of MIF’s Plastics Program Roundup 2023-24 event, as featured in TheCSRUniverse.

February 29, 2024
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MIF In The Press

Startup Hub India Set to Drive Global Progress

India's startup ecosystem has evolved into a global innovation hub, driving economic growth, job creation, and technological advancement across diverse sectors.

February 23, 2024
MIF In The Press

Interview: Suranjana Ghosh, Head of MIF, on Innovating to Solve India’s Plastics Problem

In an interview with TheCSRUniverse, Suranjana Ghosh discusses MIF's objectives and progress on catalysing innovations in the plastic waste management space.

January 15, 2024

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