STUDENT STARTUP AND INNOVATION POLICY 2.0 (SSIP 2.0) @ IITRAM
About
The Education Department, Government of Gujarat has launched a STUDENT STARTUP AND INNOVATION POLICY for providing financial assistance in terms of seed funding to young minds of the State which are School/Institute/University students for motivating Start-ups/ Innovation. Under this policy, any individual student or group of students from any technical or non-technical background having innovative idea / concept will be eligible to get the funding within the specified limits, for converting their ideas into reality and an initial support towards establishment of their own Start-up company, as approved by Competent Committee.
Vision
Empowering the young population of the State to unlock their creative potential through Start-up and Innovation so as to enable them to contribute for sustainable development and inclusive growth towards the realization of Aatmanirbhar Gujarat.
Mission
- Create a student-centric innovation and incubation ecosystem across the academia and establish at all levels of education: Schools, Institutes and Universities.
- Develop functional incubators at all universities in the State to scout and nurture innovation and Start-up across academia and enable them for maximum value creation for the industry, society and the State at large.
- Build internal capacity of educational institutions and strengthening mentoring processes on innovation, entrepreneurship and also Intellectual Property related awareness programmes and to develop the mechanisms for the same.
- Set up a common robust digital platform that would allow seamless support to stakeholders and develop an integrated mechanism of performance analysis by fixing predetermined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
- Encouraging students, innovators and Start-ups in sunrise sectors, traditional and disruptive technologies and to Formulate and implement various interventions and mandates based on learnings from best practices and past efforts to facilitate the journey of Mind-to-market.
- Nurture the evolution of Gujarat Start-up ecosystem across its various phases like emergence, activation, integration and maturity.
