Innovation and
Entrepreneurship
For budding entrepreneurs, innovation is meant to turn their business vision into reality with their creative thinking and innovative problem-solving. Over the past few years, India has emerged as the foundation head of Global Innovation with thousands of startups making it big, and many joining the coveted Unicorn club.
Sri Aurobindo Group has always been at the forefront of developing an ecosystem and culture of innovation in the institutes. The seeds of innovation have borne fruit with many of the alumni launching their successful startups over the years.
How Innovation Aids Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is supported by Innovation in the following ways:
- Creative Development and Persistent Improvement of products and services.
- Brand Reinforcement.
- Creates a Unique Selling Point.
- Improvisation of existing products.
- Responding to Trends and Competition in the market and industry.
Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology’s Institution
Innovation Council (SAIT - IIC)
About IIC
The Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India has established ‘MoE’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 the creation of ‘Institution Innovation Councils (IICs)' across selected HEIs. A network of IICs is established to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion ecosystem on the campuses. MIC has established the Institution's Innovation Council in more than 2260+ Institutions till August 2024.
About SAIT- IIC
Aligning to the mission of the Ministry of Education, the Govt. of India's ‘Innovation cell’ (MIC), Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology Indore established Sri Aurobindo Institute of Technology’s Institution Innovation Council (SAIT - IIC).
SAIT - IIC aims to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by exposing them to new ideas and processes resulting in innovation and entrepreneurship. It will work under the MIC and will focus on creating a complete ecosystem that will foster the culture of innovation among the students from idea generation to pre-incubation, incubation, and graduating from the incubator as successful start-ups.
Major Focus
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To create a vibrant innovation ecosystem at the Institute.
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Start-up supporting mechanism in SAIT.
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Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of institutions on innovation achievements framework.
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Establish a functional ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
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Develop better cognitive ability among students.
Functions of IIC
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To conduct various Innovations, IPR, and entrepreneurship-related activities prescribed by MIC in time time-bound fashion.
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Identify and reward innovations and share success stories.
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Organize periodic workshops/seminars/interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
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Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
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Create an Institution’s Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by the institution’s faculty and students.
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Organize Hackathons, idea competitions, mini-challenges, etc. with the involvement of industries.
Members
| Name | Designation | Key Role/Position Assigned in IIC |
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Dr. Aaquil Bunglowala |
Director |
President |
Dr. Anupam Mandloi |
Vice Principal |
Vice President |
Prof. Amit Holkar |
Head, Department of ECE |
Convener |
Mr. Ranvijay Parmar |
Assistant Professor |
Innovation Ambassador |
Mr. Shantanu Mehta |
Assistant Professor |
Innovation Ambassador |
Mr. Kamlesh Gurjar |
Head, Department of ME |
Innovation Ambassador |
Mr. Vaibhav Sharma |
Assistant Professor |
Innovation Ambassador |
Mr. Sunil Parihar |
Head, Department of CSE |
Member |
Mr. Anant Bhardwaj |
Head, Department of CE |
Member |
Mr. Sharad Neema |
Head, Department of EX |
Member |
Mr. Sudesh Deshbhratar |
Administration |
Member |
Activities
- Developing an Online Repository of Ideas and a Way Forward Plan.
- Session on Problem Solving and Ideation Workshop.
- Workshop on “Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Career Opportunity".
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Building an ecosystem for startup growth.
- Session on “ How to Become a skilled Civil Engineer” by industry experts.
Upcoming Activities
- Pitching events for ideas scouted & Linkage and Innovation Ambassadors for Mentorship Support.
- Exposure and field visits for problem identification
- Session on problem-solving and ideation workshop.
- My story - Motivational session by start-up founder/Entrepreneur
- My story - Motivational session by Successful Innovators
- Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Innovation as a career opportunity.