{"id":21791,"date":"2024-03-22T07:42:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T02:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2025-04-06T15:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T09:52:07","slug":"shanghai-cooperation-organisation-startup-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/shanghai-cooperation-organisation-startup-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Startup Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Startup Forum<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a platform for the stakeholders from the\u00a0startup ecosystems from all SCO Member States to interact and collaborate.<\/li>\n<li>It aims to create\u00a0multilateral cooperation and engagement for startups among the SCO Member States. This engagement will empower the local startup ecosystems in the SCO Member States.<\/li>\n<li>The following are the objectives of the engagement:\n<ul>\n<li>Sharing of best practices to promote entrepreneurship and innovation to build knowledge-exchange systems.<\/li>\n<li>Bringing Corporates and Investors\u00a0across to work closely with startups and provide local entrepreneurs with much-needed support and market access.<\/li>\n<li>Increasing scaling opportunities for startups by providing solutions in the field of social innovation and provide the Governments with a plethora of innovative solutions<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating cross-border incubation and acceleration programs that will enable the startups to explore international markets and get focused mentorship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>India will host the second meeting of the Special Working Group for Startups and Innovation (SWG) in November 2024 and SCO Startup Forum 5.0 in January 2025.<\/li>\n<li>Previously, Startup India had organized various initiatives for SCO Member states including:\n<ul>\n<li>SCO Startup Forum 1.0: The SCO Startup Forum\u00a0in 2020 laid the foundation for multilateral cooperation and engagement for startups among the SCO Member States.<\/li>\n<li>SCO Startup Forum 2.0: The two-day Forum was held virtually in 2021 through a customized platform representing the Indian culture in augmented reality.\u00a0SCO Startup Hub, a single point of contact for the SCO startup ecosystem, was\u00a0launched in this forum.<\/li>\n<li>SCO Startup Forum 3.0: DPIIT organised the first ever physical SCO Startup Forum in 2023 for the SCO Member States.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>1st Meeting of the SWG: The first Meeting of the SCO Special Working Group on Startups and Innovation (SWG), permanently chaired by India, was organised on the theme \u2018Growing from Roots\u2019 in 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Startup India Initiative?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a flagship initiative of the Government of India intended to catalyse start up culture with the objective of supporting entrepreneurs, building a robust startup ecosystem and transforming India into a country of job creators instead of job seekers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2015890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>4th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Startup Forum organized in New Delhi<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Startup Forum is a platform for the stakeholders from the startup ecosystems from all SCO Member States to interact and collaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}