Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)
In the year 2018, the 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 theculture of innovation and start-up ecosystem in education institutions. Primarily,IICs’ role is to engage large number of faculty, students and staff in variousinnovation and entrepreneurship related activities such as ideation, Problemsolving, Proof of Concept development, Design Thinking, IPR, project handlingand management at Pre-incubation/Incubation stage, etc., so that innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem gets established and stabilized in HEIs. The IICmodel is designed to address the existing challenges/issues in HEIs such as lessnumbers, occasional and unplanned Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E)activities organised in HEIs with low involvement of top leadership, lack ofcoherence and absence of synergy in resource mobilization, deployment andunderutilization of creative potential of youths as major barrier for vibrant I&Eecosystem to emerge from HEIs.
