Ministry of Education (MoE) through MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC) launched 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. Primarily, IICs’ role is to engage large number of faculty, students and staff in various innovation and entrepreneurship related activities such as ideation, Problem solving, Proof of Concept development, Design Thinking, IPR, project handling and management at Pre-incubation/Incubation stage, etc., so that innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem gets established and stabilized in HEIs. The IIC model is designed to address the existing challenges/issues in HEIs such as less numbers, occasional and unplanned Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) activities organized in HEIs with low involvement of top leadership, lack of coherence and absence of synergy in resource mobilization, deployment and underutilization of creative potential of youths as major barrier for vibrant I&E ecosystem to emerge from HEIs.
IIC model is unique and distinct as it integrates the functionalities of flexibility calendar activities, scoring and reward system, decentralizing operation with division of work, progress monitoring and incentive mechanisms in coordinated manner through a robust digital platform. In last two years, undoubtedly, IIC has emerged as a very sustainable and scalable model for promoting innovation within HEIs and the efforts of these IIC Institutes can be seen as impactful contribution towards making country’s innovation and start-ups ecosystem more vibrant and dynamic.
Major Focus:-
- To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem @Lingayas Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University.
- Start-up supporting mechanism in Lingayas Vidyapeeth.
- Prepare Lingayas Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University 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 Lingayas Vidyapeeth students.
Vision:-
- To create a dynamic, innovative, and entrepreneurial ecosystem across Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University.
- To foster a culture of entrepreneurship at Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth that contributes to the economic, social, and environmental progress of the nation.
Mission:-
- To create a system that enables Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth students and faculty to innovate and develop prototypes aligned with industry standards.
- To nurture and incubate ideas in a supportive environment.
- To establish an institutional system for converting Lingaya’s Vidyapeeth student ideas into innovative business plans and strategies.
- To increase the involvement of leadership in innovation and entrepreneurship activities.
- To organize ideation workshops, problem-solving challenges, and proof-of-concept development, including training in design thinking and intellectual property rights (IPR).
- To connect IICs at the institutional level with ecosystem enablers at the regional and national levels.
- To conduct various Innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship-related activities at Lingayas Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University prescribed by MIC in time bound fashion.
- Identify and reward innovations by Lingayas Vidyapeeth Students & Faculties and share success stories.
- Organize periodic workshops/ seminars/ interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for Lingayas Vidyapeeth student innovators.
- Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
- Create an Institution’s Innovation portal for Lingayas Vidyapeeth to highlight innovative projects carried out by institution’s faculty and students.
- Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges at Lingayas Vidyapeeth Deemed to be University with the involvement of industries.