Innovation is defined as the introduction into a market of new or improved products and services. The National Innovation Eco-System is a set of functioning institutions, organizations and policies that interact constructively in the pursuit of a common set of social and economic goals and objectives and uses innovation as the key promoter of change.
Mauritius is an upper middle income country and is poised to transition to the level of a high income country, where innovation becomes the key driver of socio-economic development. The National Innovation Framework is a unique programme of creating innovation ecosystems to transform the landscape of the Mauritian economy. The success of this framework is contingent on the following unique features: sustainable roadmap for growth, private funding for programmes, integrated and coordinated growth and accountability of innovators.