Institution's Innovation Council- An Initiative of Ministry of HRD
Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India has established 'MoE's
Innovation Cell (MIC)' to systematically foster the culture of Innovation among all
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The primary mandate of MIC is to encourage,
inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and
transform them into prototypes while they are informative years.
MIC has envisioned encouraging creation of 'Institution's Innovation
Council (IICs) across selected HEIs. A network of IICs are established to promote
innovation and entrepreneurship in the Institution through multitudinous modes
leading to an innovation promotion ecosystem in the campuses. MIC has established
Institution's Innovation Council in more than 2200 Institutions till November 2020.
Major Focus
- To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem.
- Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
- Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of institutions on innovation achievements
framework.
- Establish function ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
- Develop better cognitive ability among students.
Function of IIC
- To conduct various Innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship-related activities
prescribed by MIC in time bound fashion.
- Identify and reward innovations and share success stories.
- Organize periodic workshops/ seminars/ interactions with entrepreneurs,
investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
- Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
- Create an Institution's Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects
carried out by institution's faculty and students.
- Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges etc. with the involvement
of industries.
- Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
- Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of institutions on innovation achievements
framework.
- Establish function ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
- Develop better cognitive ability among students.
Connect/Refer: This mode may be adopted to
channelize the benefits of programs by various agencies. IIC can network with
other IICs to carry out programs related to Innovation and entrepreneurship.
Features
IIC is a unique initiative of MHRD Innovation Cell and is different
from other existing models, It aims at streamlining and strengthening the Innovation
and startup ecosystem in HEIs campuses in the following ways:
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Breaking isolation and enhancing coherence and
synergy among departments, centers, units, student bodies
at the institute. It derives experts and resources from different
departments and ecosystem enablers from outside the institute in a planned
manner to promote and support innovation and startup programs on campus. IIC
being a faculty-expert-student council, also comprises of representatives
from institute, industry, alumni, financial institutes, incubation unit and
intend to give guidance and directional
support to council and student team to achieve the desired
result by deriving support and expertise from member
organizations and facilitating resource mobilization.
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IIC ensures to overcome seasonality nature of
functioning of EDC and other centers and ensures round the year
activities in the campus to give exposure & multiple
opportunities for students and faculties to take part and understand the
importance of Innovation, inculcating entrepreneurship skill and mindset and
encouraging taking startup as an alternative career option.
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To engage key stakeholders (Student, Faculty,
and Institute) effectively and developing healthy competition among IICs
to carry out round the year activities in synchronization
with other similar bodies such as incubation units and pre-incubation
centers –start-up cell and IEDC units, etc. IIC portal is built with
monitoring, evaluation and reward system by capturing the efforts being
carried out at IIC/institute level.
1. |
President |
Dr. M. Thangam
Associate Professor and Head, Department of Business Administration |
2. |
Vice President |
Dr. V. G. SUMATHY / Associate Professor & HoD
Master of Business Administration |
3. |
Convenor |
Ms. S. Krithika / Assistant Professor
Computer Science (P.G.) |
4. |
Internship Activity Coordinator |
Mr. K. K. Suresh Kumar
Assistant Professor in Computer Science (P.G.) |
5. |
ARIIA Coordinator |
Dr. P. Poongodi / Professor
Business Administration (Computer Application) |
6. |
NIRF Coordinator |
Mr. S. Vijayakumar
Assistant Professor in Computer Science (P.G.) |
7. |
Start-up Activity Coordinator |
Mr. M. Arul Raja / Assistant Professor
Department of Business Administration |
8. |
Innovation Activity Coordinator |
Mr. S. Jaganathan / Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science(UG) |
9. |
IPR Activity Coordinator |
Dr. P. Parvatham / Associate Professor in Corporate Secretaryship with
Computer Applicationss |