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The ‘National Innovation and Start-up Policy 2019 for students and faculty in HEIs was launched by Former Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on 11th September 2019 at AICTE, New Delhi. This policy intends to guide HEIs for promoting students’ driven innovations & start-ups and to engage the students and faculty in innovation and start up activities in campus. The policy aims at enabling HEIs to build, streamline and strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in campus and will be instrumental in leveraging the potential of student’s creative problem solving and entrepreneurial mind-set, and promoting a strong intra and interinstitutional partnerships with ecosystem enablers and different stakeholders at regional, national and international level. The policy is being implemented by MoE’s Innovation Cell and in coordination AICTE, UGC, state/ UT governments and universities. Implementation of policy has been undertaken for quick adoption by HEIs. The present policy is a way forward to the earlier version of AICTE’s Start-up Policy which was launched in the year 2016 to complement the Startup Action Plan under the Startup India and Stand-up India Program launched by Hon’ble Prime Minster of India.

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VISION

         To Facilitate resources and to actively build Entrepreneurs with innovative ideas concerning the societal well being of the national and global community through the exchange of ideas which vitalize our education system.

MISSION

         To empower the pre-incubates, start-ups and first-generation entrepreneurs by collaborating with congruent organizations for knowledge exchange through mentoring, to promote innovations and create environment where innovations can succeed.

Short Term Objective

1. Reinforce Institute Industry Interaction cell to provide an ecosystem of quality infrastructure for developing innovative ideas.
2. Encourage Faculty and Students for Entrepreneurship and startup activities.
3. To Establish and leverage networks of mentors, investors and facilitators.
4. Promote Innovative ideas by organizing Seminars, workshops and leadership talks for students and faculties.
5. Support young entrepreneurs with innovative ideas and creative design thinking.
6. To analyze and reward the success and failure stories of Alumni Entrepreneurs.

Long Term Objective

1. Over a period of years, transfer from resource facilitator to resource provider for promoting and fostering research.
2. Collaborate with DST, CII, MSME for shifting to world class facilities for the Activities.
3. Produce income through projects, consultancy works and Start-ups.
4. Bring awareness to students and faculties regarding Intellectual Property Right.
5. Establish partnership with recognized Entrepreneurship Development Cells.

Downlaod Committee Members

Committee Members

S.NO NAME POSITION
1 Dr.P.Ravichandran
Principal/St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology		 President
2 Dr.J.Dafni Rose
Professor/St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology		 Innovation Ambassador
3 Mr. Satish Salivati
CEO, InteliTix Solution Pvt. Ltd 		Industrialist
4 Dr. J. Deny
Kalasalingam TBI Manage		 Incubation Coordinator
5 Mr. Prakadesh Subramanian
CEO/ Chennai Institute of Technology – Business Incubation Forum		 Incubation Coordinator
6 Mr. Newton Reginald. R. G
General Manager -IPR Services 		Patent Expert
7 Mr. Santhosh Raj
CEO/ Amour Groups		 Alumni Entrepreneur
8 Mr. Suresh
Director- Coredroid Technology 		Entrepreneur
9 Mr. Philip Moses
Founder & CEO – Belsterns Technologies (OPC) Pvt. Ltd.		 Entrepreneur
10 Dr. S. Kalarani
Professor/ St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology		 Member
11 Dr. D. Kirubakaran
Professor/ St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology		 Member
12 Dr. K. Arun Vasantha Geethan
Professor/ St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology		 Member
13 Dr. Thenmozhi
Professor/ St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology 		Member
14 Dr. C. Gnana Kousalya
Professor/ St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology 		Member
15 Dr. N. Padmamalini
Professor/ St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology		 Member
16 Dr. T. T. Raman
Professor/ St. Joseph’s Institute of Technology		 Member

Downlaod Plan

NATIONAL INNOVATION AND STARTUP POLICY

1 Stratergies and Governance
  • Entrepreneurship promotion and development
  • To facilitate development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the organization
  • Define a Sustainable Financial Strategy
  • To promote and highlight Innovation & Entrepreneurial agendas.
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    2 Startups Enabling Institutional Infrastructure
  • Creation of pre-incubation and incubation facilities for nurturing innovations and startups
  • Mentoring and other relevant services through Pre-incubation/Incubation units.
  • To facilitate Pre-Incubation/Incubation facility 24x7 to students, staff and faculty of all disciplines and departments
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    3 Nurturing Innovations and Start ups
  • To establish processes and mechanisms for easy creation and nurturing of Startups/enterprises by students
  • To provide Incubation Support, to allow setting up a Start-up and working part time for the start-up, to allow licensing of IPR from Institute to start-up.
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    4 Product Ownership Rights for Technologies Developed at Institute
  • Interdisciplinary research and publication on startup and entrepreneurship
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    5 Organizational Capacity, Human Resources and Incentives
  • Encourage Faculty and staff should to do courses on innovation, entrepreneurship management and venture development
  • Organize guest lecturers or alumni talk for strategic advice and bringing in skills which are not available internally
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    6 Creating Innovation Pipeline and Pathways for Entrepreneurs at Institute Level
  • To ensure exposure of maximum students to innovation and pre incubation activities at their early stage and to support the pathway from ideation to innovation to market
  • Link startups and companies with wider entrepreneurial ecosystem.
  • Establish Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs) as per the guidelines of MHRD’s Innovation Cell and allocate appropriate budget for its activities
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    7 Norms for Faculty Startups
  • Create norms for faculty to do startup at institutes
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    8 Pedagogy and Learning Interventions for Entrepreneurship Development
  • Student clubs/ bodies/ departments must be created for organizing competitions, bootcamps, workshops, awards, etc.
  • To create Student clubs/ bodies/ departments for organizing competitions, bootcamps, workshops, awards, etc.
  • Pedagogical changes need to be done to ensure that maximum number of student projects and innovations are based around real life challenges.te and highlight Innovation & Entrepreneurial agendas.
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    9 Collaboration, Co-creation, Business Relationships and Knowledge Exchange
  • Stakeholder engagement should be given prime importance in the entrepreneurial agenda of the institute.
  • To develop policy and guidelines for forming and managing the relationships with external stakeholders including private industries.
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    10 Stratergies and Governance
  • Entrepreneurship promotion and development
  • To facilitate development of an entrepreneurial ecosystem in the organization
  • Define a Sustainable Financial Strategy
  • To promote and highlight Innovation & Entrepreneurial agendas.
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