Prime Minister has approved the setting up of a National Innovation Council to prepare a road map for the Decade of Innovation 2010-2020. The National Innovation Council would be headed by Shri Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations.

The Council has been given the mandate to evolve an Indian model of innovation focusing on inclusive growth and creating an appropriate ecosystem conducive to fostedng inclusive innovation. It will delineate appropriate policy initiatives within the government required to spur innovation. It will also promote the setting up of Sectoral Innovation Councils and State Innovation Councils.

While encouraging all important sectors of the economy to innovate, it will take special efforts to facilitate innovation by micro small and medium enterprises. Innovation in public services delivery and encouraging multi-disciplinary and globally competitive approaches for innovations would be focused on by the Council.

The National Innovation Council would have as its members Dr. K. Kasturirnagan and Shri Arun Maira, Members of the Planning Commission, Dr. Ramesh Mashelkar, Former Director General of CSIR, Shri Kiran Karnik, former President, NASSCOM, Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty of the Narayana Hrudyalaya, Shri R. Gopalakishnan, Executive Director, Tata Sons, Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Chairperson, Biocon, Shri Shekhar Kapur, Film Director, Shri Saurabh Srivastava, Chairman, CA Technologies, Shri Anil K. Gupta, Professor IIM Ahmedabad, Prof. Sujatha Ramadorai, Professor, TIFR, Shri Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII, Shri Amit Mitra, Secretary General, FICCI, Dr. Samir Brahmachari, Director General, CSIR and Shri Sanjay Dhande, Director, IIT Kanpur, Shri R. Gopalakrishnan, Additional Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office would be the Member Secretary of the National Innovation Council.