Initiatives taken by GTU to boost Innovations @ GTU
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INNOVATIONS @ GTU
Naresh JadejaDeputy Director
Gujarat Technological University
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Email: [email protected]
www.gtu.ac.in
www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in
Interaction with Global Leaders of Fujitsu
GTU & Fujitsu
One common thing
Fujitsu – Human Centric Innovation
&
GTU – Research relevant to the needs of the society/Industry
About GTU
400,000 plus students, 17,000+ faculties Distance between two GTU affiliated institutes - 774 KM Gujarat’s 95% of Engineering/Mgt./Pharmacy students
study at GTU. 100,000 plus students enrolling every year. Challenge: Policy makers are from remaining 6%
institutions Enrolment - First time in the Family Engineers
Challenge - Can Innovation happen in Tier 2 / Tier 3 Cities?
GTU Innovation Council (GIC) was established – Aug’10 First Objective – To nurture creativity and innovation
within the University community Designed to act as a catalyst of change for the whole of
the society.
How it happened?
Road map Implementation of Road map
Shift from Individual – Institution Feedback from 10,000 faculty – students - industry 3 layers where innovation happens :
College – Cluster – Central Interaction and Establishment of 25 Sankul (Clusters) Shodh Yatra (Journey for Innovation) - IDP 300 UDISHA clubs were established to map every student with an industry 100,000 plus students tried to solve problems of industries spread across 70 plus industry
clusters. 1st large-scale effort by an University to link each of its students with an industry. Mentoring
How it happened?
Work in ProgressMapped 10,000 plus MSME’s (Micro, Small & Medium
Enterprises) across the state for benchmarking industrial needs and process challenges
Appreciation & Awards by national & international organization
1900 plus MSMEs have written to the University that they have benefitted economically by adopting innovation suggested by students of GTU’s first batch graduated in 2012
How it happened?
IPRLargest sensitization program in the country4000 plus Faculty & students trained for preliminary patent filingPatent clinics240 plus patents filed in 2 yearsIdeas to Concept – Concept to Product – Product to Market
Starting - Student Start up Support System (S4)
Innovation with Indian essence - Reverse Innovation
Community Innovation & Co-Creation Centers (C-i-C3)Website - http://cic3.gtu.ac.in
Fellowship Program
A student would be selected as an Fellow based on his/her aptitude for innovation and entrepreneurship, who will then get to work on GIC activities.
The selected Fellow, in his/her entire tenure, would represent GIC in their college and would be equipped with tools that would be aimed to bring about his/her personal development as well as advancement of the entrepreneurial eco-system in his/her campus.
After completion of 200 hours of active work in a period of three months, a certificate from GTU Vice Chancellor on Fellowship/ Associateship and Internship will be awarded.
For more information on Fellowship Program : http://gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in/fsp.php
“Design Thinking and Design Driven Innovation based approach to solve Social Challenges
This workshop was organized on 16th & 17th May 2014 at GTU Innovation Council
Student Start-up Support System Co-Creation Center (S4-C3). More than one hundred first year young enthusiasts from 8 different colleges came together at S4-C3 to solve social problems through the concept of design thinking.
Read more about this event: Report
Flash Venture via Venture Design Canvas
This is an ideation workshop, which goes through stages of problem identification, problem solving - and ‘customer’ interviews, prototype designing, and design-re-design loop . The flash venture workshop is typically attended by students who work in teams to solve a problem, apply design thinking methodologies and learn about creating a new venture.
Mind to Market Workshop: “Fuelpad”
“S4-Fuelpad Program”for honing empathization-ideation-prototype building skill of students for developing Innovation
Read more about this event: Report
PatentTrack
To promote innovative culture among students in a fun learning way, GTU Innovation Council (GIC) organized first session of PatentTrack, a two days competition for the Computer Engineering & Information Technology related branches of GTU. This competition consisted of patent search by students of given companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, IBM, Intel, Nokia and Cisco, Group discussion among participants on current IPR topics & presentation of analysed patents by each group for particular company.
Crowdfunding Initiator (CFI)
Read more about CFI
• Launch report long
• Final day report (with pics)
• Media coverage report
• Press Conference for Crowd Funding Initiator (CFI) Success Story and rewarding the teams
• Startup Saturday (10K Startups Nasscom)
GujaratShift from
Material intensive to Knowledge intensive
Contact Us
Address:
126, ACPC Building,
L.D. Engineering College Campus,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 015
079-2630 0499, 079-2630 0599
www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in
www.facebook.com/gtuinnovationcouncil