About IIC

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 creation of ‘Institution’s Innovation Council (IICs) across selected HEIs. A network of IICs are established to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the Institution through multitudinous modes leading to an innovation promotion ecosystem in the campuses. MIC has established Institution’s Innovation Council in more than 2700
Institutions till December 2021.

Major Focus

• To create avibrant local innovation ecosystem.
• Start-up supporting mechanism in HEIs.
• Prepareinstitute for Atal Ranking of institutions on innovation achievements framework.
• Establish function ecosystem for scouting ideas andpre-incubation of
• Develop bettercognitive ability among students.

Function of IIC

• Toconduct various Innovation, IPR and entrepreneurship-related activities
• prescribed by MIC in time bound fashion.
• Identify andreward innovations and share success
• Organizeperiodic workshops/ seminars/ interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
• Network with peers andnational entrepreneurship development organizations.
• Createan Institution’s Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by institution’s faculty and students.
• OrganizeHackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges  with the involvement of industries.

IIC Committee

IIC Committee Members