Institution Innovation Council

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About: In the year 2018, the Ministry of Education (MoE) through MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC) established the Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC) program in collaboration with AICTE for Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) to systematically foster the culture of innovation and start-up ecosystem in education institutions.  The Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell has introduced and is implementing several policy initiatives, including the Smart India Hackathon, International Hackathons, the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA), the establishment of Institution’s Innovation Councils (IICs), and the National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP) for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). These programs aim to encourage the Indian youth to foster innovation and build successful enterprises.

Vision: Construction of entrepreneurial ecosystem towards enterprising IIIT Nagpur.

Mission

• Evolving human potential to deliver in nation building,
• Creating entrepreneurship awareness and environment at IIIT Nagpur.
• Indoctrinating a practise of innovation driven entrepreneurship in faculty and students.
• Manoeuvring students in setting up an enterprise for development of indigenous products and services. 

Goals

• To make each individual of IIIT Nagpur aware.
• To encourage students, faculty and alumni.
• Call for idea tanks and contests on ideas.
• Exploration of entrepreneur world.
• Products visualization.
• Plans for start-up.

Constitution (Faculty)

Institute Innovation Council at IIIT Nagpur for Academic Year 2024-2025
Sr. No.	Name of Member	Designation	Post
1	Dr. Aatish S. Daryapurkar	Assistant Professor -BS, IIIT Nagpur	IIC President
2	Dr. Akshay Zadgaonkar	Cofounder of Flash Theory and BabyVerse, Nagpur	IIC Vice President
3	Dr. Kamaljeet	Assistant Professor -BS, IIIT Nagpur	IIC Convener
4	Dr. Raghavendra Deshmukh	Professor – VNIT Incubation In-charge	External Member
5	Mr. Vinay Tyagi	Delivery head, Engineering and industrial services Business unit, Tata consultancy services, MIHAN, Nagpur	External Member (Industry Expert)
6	Mr. Akshay Kekare,	Director, Alabso Circle Pvt Ltd Partner in Techwalnut Innovations LLP	External Member (Industry Expert)
7	Ms. Shilpa Pawankar	Assistant Registrar (Account) , IIIT Nagpur	Member
8	Dr. Shankar Bhattacharjee	Assistant Professor -ECE, IIIT Nagpur	Innovation Activity Coordinator
9	Dr. Jitendra Tembhurne	Assistant Professor -CSE, IIIT Nagpur	Startup Activity Coordinator
10	Dr. Nikhil Dhengre	Assistant Professor -ECE, IIIT Nagpur	Internship Activity Coordinator
11	Dr. Neha Kasture	Assistant Professor -CSE, IIIT Nagpur	Social Media Coordinator
12	Dr. Kirti Dorshetwar	Assistant Professor -BS, IIIT Nagpur	IPR Activity coordinate
13	Dr. Milind Penurkar	Assistant Professor -CSE, IIIT Nagpur	NIRF Coordinator
14	Dr. Ujwal Warbhe	Assistant Professor -BS, IIIT Nagpur	Member (ATAL School Linkage Program Coordinator)
15	Dr. Bhukya Venkanna Naik	Assistant Professor -ECE, IIIT Nagpur	Member  (KAPILA Scheme Co-ordinator)
16	Dr. Kaushlendra Sharma	Assistant Professor -CSE, IIIT Nagpur	Member  (Yukti – co-ordinator)
17	Dr. Rashmi Ranjan Kumar	Assistant Professor -ECE, IIIT Nagpur	MIC-driven, ELearning Resources Coordinator

 

Achievements of IIC of IIIT Nagpur

• NISP: Adopted National Innovation and Startup Policy at IIIT Nagpur
• ARIIA: IIIT Nagpur bagged 8^th rank in Band–promising of ARIIA RANKINGS 2021 under the category of Institute of National Importance & Central Universities/CFTIs (Technical).
• Started new courses: Technology, Innovation and Society, Introduction to Entrepreneurship
• Received fund to organize “Impact Lecture Series”
• Udyam: Entrepreneurship Development –Innovation & Startup Cell: Established cell to encourage, provoke, guide and support each individual who have zeal and passionate, vision and ability to establish himself/ herself an Innovator or Entrepreneur.
• MSME Champion scheme: IIIT Nagpur is recognized as Host Institute (HI) for implementation of the Incubation component under MSME Innovative Scheme. Institute received nine ideas for incubation in the year 2022 -2023