Role of IIC

IICs’ role is to engage a large number of faculty, students, and staff in various innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities such as Ideation, Problem-solving, and Proof of Concept development, Design Thinking, IPR, project handling, and management at the Pre-incubation/Incubation center. It ensures that the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem get established and stabilized in HEIs.

The IIC model is designed to address the existing challenges/issues in HEIs such as fewer 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 a major barrier for vibrant I&E ecosystem to emerge from HEIs.

Objectives

• To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem. Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
• To establish function ecosystem for scouting ideas and pre-incubation of ideas.
• To develop better cognitive ability among students.

IIC Council Members

Name & Details	Designation	Roles
Dr. Sandhya Ravi	Principal	President
Mr. Somasundaram	Member of MSME	External Expert
Ms. Pooja Bekal	Asst. Professor	NIRF Coordinator
Ms. Sneha M	Asst. Professor	IPR Activity Coordinator
Dr. Dhanaraj	Asst. Professor	Internship Activity Coordinator
Ms. Yashaswini N G	Asst. Professor	Convener
Ms. Sauda Samreen	Asst. Professor	Start-up Activity Coordinator
Mr. Gladwin Joseph	Asst. Professor	Innovation Activity
Mr. Kiran L Mirajkar	Asst. Professor	Social media
Mr. H Pradeepa Nayak	Asst. Professor	Members
Mr. Divya Das	Asst. Professor	Members

IIC Activity at NITTEFTID