Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)
About IIC
Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India has established ‘MHRD’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. A network of more than 950 IICs were established on 21st November 2018.
In the last 4 years, the IIC network has grown to 6,500+ numbers of HEIs with more than 72,000 students, 50,000+ faculty members, and 9000+ experts from ecosystem enablers are currently part of it.
Institution’s Innovation Councils in HEIs ensure a multidisciplinary interaction and partnership approach for boosting IP generation, enhancing innovation and start-up outputs from academic institutions.
During the AY 2021-22, a total of 63,288 numbers of I&E activities were conducted by these IICs which is double the number of activities conducted in 2019-20 year and five times increase from the very first year of the IIC program.
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 Central MIC in time bound fashion.
• Identify and reward innovati ons 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
NAIN
The main objective of NAIN Scheme is to encourage students, research scholars and alumni to share their ideas to solve chosen problems which are local centric and to validate, Refine and Nurture the ideas.
Incubation Center shall provide an eco system to covert the ideas in proof of concept and upgrade them to a level of commercial value. After successful incubation, encourage and lead the teams towards setting up a Business enterprise.
