IIC Regional Meet 2023
Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India has taken initiative to establish MoE’s Innovation Cell (MIC) to encourage inculcating the culture that will foster innovation in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The MIC intends to nurture the entrepreneurial skills among young people helping and encouraging them to have innovative ideas and converting them to prototypes. MIC has envisioned to have Institution’s Innovation Council (IICs) across HEIs in India. To promote innovation, IICs of HEIs are formed for developing proper ecosystem.
Panjab University, Chandigarh is glad to announce that Ministry of Education has selected PU as the first host institution for organizing IIC (Institution’s Innovation Council) regional meets2023 on 21st November. This meet will be executed under the banner of Atma-nirbhar-Bharat, to inculcate the vision of Make-in-India campaign in start-ups, entrepreneurs, IIC institutes and innovators. Registration and signatory campaign for innovation & start-up will be done online through IIC registration portal. The institutes will be providing their nominations, displaying their posters at the meet.
An entrepreneur market “Udyami Bazaar” will be set-up for innovators to sell their innovative products and publicize their brand. KARTAVYABODH&Open interactive sessions are another new initiative to be executed which will be involving some extracurricular activities for engagement of innovators. Pitching session and One-on-One mentoring sessions will provide guidance to entrepreneurs of this region and few selected start-ups will be selected for national nominations for investment up to 10 Lakhs.
Innovation round table discussion with Angel investors, Incubators and resource agencies will be laying down seeds for leveling up of entrepreneurial ecosystem. Knowledge sharing sessions will be given by IIC institutions focusing on IP commercialization & Technology transfer. Some YUKTI Innovators will get a chance to demonstrate their technology/ product in front of panelists and the best innovators and IIC posters will be felicitated at the valedictory session.
All this will be setting a benchmark for the upcoming meets and ecosystem development initiatives. At the end of the day, everyone will have something to take away.
