IIC INTRODUCTION

IIC

Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India for the establishment of ‘MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC)’ to systematically foster the culture of innovation amongst all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) with the mandate to encourage the creative energy of our student population to work on new ideas and innovation and promote them to create start- ups and entrepreneurial ventures. MIC has established more than 9224 Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) at HEIs. Primarily, IICs’ role is to engage large number of faculty, students and staff in various innovation and entrepreneurship related activities such as Ideation, Problem solving, Proof of Concept development (PoC), Design Thinking, IPR, project handling and management at Pre- incubation/ Incubation stage, etc., so that innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem gets established and stabilized in HEI.

Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs) established in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) is playing an instrumental role in the whole process innovation repository creation at each institute level by identifying, scouting ideas, innovations and start-ups from students, alumni/ recent graduates, faculty members, staff, entrepreneurs incubated at the institute. Moreover, IIC institutions are  keeping scouting innovations and startups throughout the year for building the repository, verification of received submissions on regular basis and taking needful actions to provide handholding supports such as mentoring, grant assistance, nominate for national innovation challenges, referral & linkage with incubation units, accelerators and connect with Angel/ VC networks, facilitating technology transfer etc. towards sustainable generation and production of innovations and startups from HEIs.

 

Govt. Shakambhar P.G. College, Sambhar Lake (Jaipur) has established Institutional Innovation Council (IIC) as per the norms of Innovation Cell, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India (IIC Calendar year, 2020- 21) to foster the culture of innovation ecosystem among students and faculties.  Since form the establishment of IIC, institute has been working hard and conducted various activities like Seminars, webinars, boot camps, ideation competitions, field visits, expert talks with industrialists, investors, entrepreneurs, academicians, orientation sessions and other various were organized related to innovation, entrepreneurship, start- ups as well as intellectual property rights at institutional premises to create awareness and equip the students as well as faculty members with all fundamental knowledge and skills to enhance institutional innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem. In addition to this, institute also registered for MIC driven Mentor Mantee scheme, Innovation Ambassador training programme, Yukti Innovation Challenge for better implementation of IIC.

 

It is a matter of great concern that, institute was selected as a governing member of IIC at the state level institute and was awarded with 2, 3.5 & 2.5 star rating for the session 2020-21, 2021- 22 & 2022- 23, respectively by the MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC) among stand- alone institute category across the nation.   

 

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