Innovation Hub

What is an Innovation Hub?

An Innovation Hub is place which provides facilities to nurture new ideas and help develop inquisitive perspective in youths of today. The Innovation hubs created by National Council of Science Museums engage youth in innovative and creative activities. These hubs serve as springboards for new ideas and innovation and thus helping the society and economy to face future challenges and meet rising aspirations of the growing population. Specifically, embedding such creative pedagogies in science education through Innovation ‘Hubs’ would have potential to retain talent in modern science.

Facilities at the Innovation Hubs:

Discovery Hall: This area will have 10 to 15 interactive science exhibits/experiments to create excitement about science through exploration and discovery of underlying principles. This will help promote logical thinking.
Innovation Resource Centre and Hall of Fame: This space will be used to showcase innovative ideas/products/implements that have transformed our world or have made significant impact on the way we conduct our lives along with respective inventors & innovators. Stories or inspirations behind such innovations/inventions will also be mentioned through appropriate modes. Besides these, implements/ samples of appropriate technology and traditional knowledge systems, art and craft and other areas of importance in public life in the respective regions shall be exhibited.
Idea Lab: This lab will have necessary basic facilities to pursue creative and innovative hobbies/activities that involve model making, basic science experimentation, design & fabrication of useful gadgets of practical use, teaching/learning kits or aids for better classroom transactions, testing of samples like soil, water, food items etc.
1. Thod Phod Jod (Break & Remake) Corner: Students learn to do things with their own hands, dismantle, reassemble and remake devices/gadgets.
2. Kabad Se Jugad (Build from scraps): Students learn more by doing things practically using day to day scrap.
3. Idea Box: Students generate their own innovative ideas and create an idea bank. The best ideas are chosen for experimentation/model making/project work.
Design Studio: This area will offer creative environment to design of various objects products etc.

List of Innovation Hubs:

S. No.	Name of the Science City/ Centre/Museum where Innovation Hub is located	State/Union Territory	Date of Inauguration/ Handing Over
1.	Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata	West Bengal	August 23, 2013
2.	Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum, Bengaluru	Karnataka	December 5, 2013
3.	National Science Centre, Delhi	Delhi	January 23, 2014
4.	Regional Science Centre, Guwahati	Assam	February 4, 2014
5.	Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai	Maharashtra	February 24, 2014
6.	Bardhaman Science Centre, Bardhaman	West Bengal	July 10, 2015
7.	Regional Science Centre & Planetarium, Calicut	Kerala	October 1, 2015
8.	Regional Science City, Lucknow	Uttar Pradesh	January 4, 2016
9.	Regional Science Centre, Dehradun	Uttarakhand	February 3, 2016
10.	Kerala State Science & Technology Museum, Trivandrum	Kerala	February 17, 2016
11.	Agastya International Foundation, Kuppam	Andhra Pradesh	February 23, 2016
12.	Tamilnadu Science & Technology Centre, Chennai	Tamilnadu	August 5, 2016
13.	Shrikrishna Science Centre, Patna,	Bihar	November 6, 2016
14.	Raman Science Centre & Planetarium, Nagpur	Maharashtra	February 14, 2017
15.	Kalimpong Science Centre, Kalimpong	West Bengal	February 25, 2017
16.	Birla Science Centre, Pilani	Rajasthan	April 11, 2017
17.	Regional Science Centre, Tirupati	Andhra Pradesh	May 21, 2017
18.	District Science Centre, Gulbarga	Karnataka	June 29, 2017
19.	Regional Science Centre, Bhopal	Madhya Pradesh	September 1, 2017
20.	District Science Centre, Tirunelveli	Tamilnadu	September 6, 2017
21.	Pushpa Gujral Science City, Kapurthala	Punjab	November 30, 2017
22.	North Bengal Science Centre, Siliguri	West Bengal	February 16, 2018
23.	BVB’s Muktangan Exploratory Science Centre, Pune	Maharashtra	February 28, 2018
24.	Vikram A Sarabhai Community Science Centre, Ahmedabad	Gujarat	March 27, 2018
25.	Shillong Science Centre, Shillong	Meghalaya	June 14, 2019
26.	Nagaland Science Centre, Dimapur	Nagaland	September 28, 2018
27.	Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar	Odisha	July 11, 2018
28.	Sikkim Science Centre, Gangtok	Sikkim	November 20, 2020
29.	Sukanta Academy, Agartala	Tripura	August 7, 2018 (Handed over to the State Govt.)
30.	Mizoram Science Centre, Aizawl	Mizoram	September 11, 2018
31.	District Science Centre, Dharampur	Gujarat	October 26, 2018
32.	Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, Itanagar	Arunachal Pradesh	December 8, 2018
33.	Digha Science Centre & National Science Camp, Digha	West Bengal	February 26, 2019
34.	Manipur Science Centre, Imphal	Manipur	March 16, 2020
35.	Goa Science Centre, Panaji	Goa	July 1, 2019
36.	District Science Centre, Purulia	West Bengal	December 17, 2019
37.	Regional Science Centre, Coimbatore	Tamilnadu	October 28, 2021
38.	Anna Science Centre-Planetarium, Trichi	Tamilnadu	October 28, 2021
39.	Solapur Science Centre, Solapur	Maharashtra	February 18, 2022
40.	Sub-Regional Science Centre, Palampur	Himachal Pradesh	May 14, 2022
41.	Dr. Abdul Kalam Science Centre & Planetarium, Puducherry	Puducherry	May 18, 2022
42.	Jorhat Science Centre & Planetarium, Jorhat	Assam	August 15, 2022
43.	Sub-Regional Science Centre, Gaya	Bihar	July 20, 2023
44.	Pilikula Regional Science Centre, Mangaluru	Karnataka	March 07, 2024
45.	Manaskhand Science Centre, Almora	Uttarakhand	March 10, 2024
46.	Science Centre, Port Blair	A & N Islands	October 24, 2024

List of Upcoming Innovation Hubs

1.	Rajamahendravaram Science Centre	Andhra Pradesh
2.	Regional Science Centre, Warangal	Telangana
3.	Sub-Regional Science Centre, Udaipur, Rajasthan	Rajasthan
4.	Regional Science Centre, Jaipur	Rajasthan
5.	Sub-Regional Science Centre, Jodhpur	Rajasthan
6.	Regional Science Centre, Chalakkudy	Kerala
7.	Dharwad Regional Science Centre, Dharwad	Karnataka
8.	Ranchi Science Centre, Ranchi	Jharkhand
9.	Srinagar Science Centre, Srinagar	J & K
10.	Science Centre (Cat-II), Jabalpur	Madhya Pradesh
11.	Chhattisgarh Regional Science Centre, Raipur	Chhattisgarh

List updated as on 25 October 2024