“The Honey Bee Network (an informal collective of farmers, artisans, scientist and scholars involved in the scouting and documenting of innovations and new ideas from the grassroots) felt that rewarding the grassroots people for their creativity should look beyond the mere recognition and documentation of their knowledge. Hence, GIAN was born to connect Innovation, Enterprise, Investment and Policy. ”

“GIAN aims at sustaining the spirit of innovation, encouraging experimentation and nurturing creativity at grassroots level of knowledge rich economically poor people by contributing to the creation of a knowledge network that can empower the innovators, stem the erosion of traditional knowledge systems, recognize and augment contemporary innovations, and facilitate diffusion of grassroots green innovations through commercial as well as non-commercial public, private and voluntary channels. ”

“GIAN scale up and spawn grassroots innovations and help development of successful enterprises. In this effort it provide the innovators with adequate linkages to modern science and technology, market research, design institutions and funding organizations. The ultimate objective is to generate new models of poverty alleviation, rural development, employment generation and conservation of natural resources without impairing the ecological balance. ”