{"id":6099,"date":"2022-12-09T09:21:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T03:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:47:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T07:17:04","slug":"what-is-spacetech-innovation-network-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-spacetech-innovation-network-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is SpaceTech Innovation Network (SpIN)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Space tech Innovation Network:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>SpIN is <strong>India\u2019s first dedicated platform for innovation, curation, and venture development <\/strong>for the burgeoning space entrepreneurial ecosystem.<\/li>\n<li>The tie-up is a one-of-a-kind <strong>public-private collaboration for start-ups<\/strong> and SMEs in the space industry.<\/li>\n<li>SpIN will primarily focus on facilitating space tech entrepreneurs in <strong>three distinct innovation categories:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Geospatial Technologies and Downstream Applications;<\/li>\n<li>Enabling Technologies for Space &amp; Mobility;<\/li>\n<li>Aerospace Materials, Sensors, and Avionics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Social Alpha<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Social Alpha is a multistage innovation curation and venture development platform for science and technology start-ups that address the most critical social, economic, and environmental challenges through the power of entrepreneurship and market-creating innovations.<\/li>\n<li>Since its inception in 2016, Social Alpha has supported more 200 start-ups including 60+ seed investments.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1)\u00a0<\/strong><strong>What is Avionics?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Avionics is a category of electronic systems and equipment specifically designed for use in aviation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/karnataka\/isro-inks-mou-with-social-alpha-to-establish-spacetech-innovation-network\/article66233892.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpIN is India\u2019s first dedicated platform for innovation &#038; venture development for the space ecosystem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6099","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\/6099","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=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}