Institution’s Innovation Council
The Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India has established ‘MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC)’ to systematically foster the culture of Innovation amongst 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 in formative years.
Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) is a unique concept that brings about a coherent alignment between the various innovation promotion activities and entrepreneurship support programs that an Institution engages in to accomplish effective engagement towards learning, boosting the entrepreneurial streak, and fostering a spirit of being innovative among students and faculty. IIC is a faculty-student-experts council which takes on multiple activities to promote Innovation and Entrepreneurship round the year in a synergistic manner.
To streamline and strengthen a vibrant ecosystem of innovation and start-up entrepreneurship at Sir Padampat Singhania University (SPSU) an Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) was established in May 2022.
Through this unique initiative of MoE’s Innovation Cell we aspire to establish a system that will enable our students and faculty members to reach out and gain access to support and mentorship from a diverse pool of resourceful representatives from industry, academia, alumni, etc to promote innovations and start-ups culture at SPSU campus.
With a primary objective to prepare the students with skills like critical thinking, creativity, Innovative thought process and Entrepreneurial mindset, IIC has certain significant focus areas.
- • To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem.
- • Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
- • Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) framework.
- • Establish function ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
- • Develop better cognitive ability among students.
- Promote innovation in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion eco-system in the campus
- To conduct various innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities prescribed by Central MIC in time bounded 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 industry.
