Student Start up & Innovation Information

Government of Gujarat has developed a policy for providing assistance to Startups/ Innovation. Under this scheme, any individual/ group of individuals having innovative idea/ Concept will be eligible and/ or Universities/ education institutions, Incubation Centre/ PSUs/ R&D; Institutions/ Private and other establishments will be eligible as an institution to support and mentor to innovators as approved by Committee. Startups in an economy’s technology sectors is an important indicator of technological performance for several reasons. 

Key Objectives

The Student Startup & Innovation Policy of Government of Gujarat aims to create an integrated, state-wide, university-based innovation ecosystem to support innovations and ideas of young students and provide a conducive environment for optimum harnessing of their creative pursuit.

  1. Developing student Centric Innovation and Pre-Incubation Ecosystem for Students (IPIES)
  2. Creating environment for creativity to flourish and an end-to-end support system in educational institutions to allow ample support to ideas for better execution
  3. Build internal capacity of educational institutions and key components of the innovation ecosystem to enable deployed processes to make sustainable impact at scale
  4. Create pathways for mind to market by harnessing and handholding projects/ research/ innovation/ ideas of students in Gujarat
  5. Creating and facilitating sectoral and regional innovation efforts in state around educational institutions
  6. Create a common platform to showcase, support and upscale innovations for motivating stakeholders as well as for an opportunity to create value for money and value for many
  7. Leverage public system initiatives at state and central level, academia, industries and by other ecosystem stakeholders / domain experts and institutions to make an inclusive effort

Key Goals

  1. Empower all universities to set-up and execute the broad agenda of innovation and preincubation
  2. Aim to create an environment that converts at least 1% graduates into job creators by innovation and allied means
  3. Support at least 1,000 student-led innovations per year and aim to file 1000 patents from universities in the state every year
  4. Harness 500 student startups in the next 5 years, and upscale
  5. Empower universities and educational institutes to build a robust Innovation and Preincubation support systems within
  6. Create incentives, awards, appreciations and benchmarks for innovation and student startups and associated efforts at all layers
  7. Build capacity for at least 200 educational institutes in the state in the next five years, to have a robust preincubation support for student / alumni startups and Innovations
  8. Undertake strategic interventions to empower all universities in the state to develop full-fledged preincubation ecosystem in the next 5 years
  9. Ensure that the innovation processes link academia, society and SMEs through systematic ways so that students and faculty solve their challenges and create further entrepreneurial opportunities

Role of Stakeholders

  1. Government: Mandate, support, facilitate, integrate and scale
  2. Academic stakeholders: Deploy agenda within, quality assurance, create end-to-end support systems, and codification
  3. Non-academic, industry and other ecosystem stakeholders: Mentoring, market access, and domain knowledge

Contact : Lr. Bhagirath Bhatt, EC Department AVPTI

Roles & Responsibilities – SSIP Cell, AVPTI, Rajkot:
Executive Committee: To mentor the Startups and Support Start-up Ecosystem Collaborations.
Charting the Tinkering Lab tools and equipment requirements, to design various programs related to Innovation, streamline SSIP screening policies. To execute and facilitate the SSIP Screening, Sensitization Programs, Seminars, Webinars, Boot camps, Tinkering Lab Procurements, Co-working Space Maintenance, Necessary Startup Support etc.
Outcomes-DIC Spoke, AVPTI, Rajkot:
Sr no.
SSIP Outcomes
 
1
No. of Students Outreached
1000
2
No. of Students Involved
60
3
No. of Workshops/Programs
12
4
Fund Sanctioned to Projects/PoC
Approximately 5.63 lakhs
5
Fund Utilized on Projects/PoC /IPR/Other
3,44,448
7
No. Active Mentors
9
8
Gujarat Hackathon Participants
Approximately 20 Students
9
Smart City Hackathon Participants
Approximately 50 Students
 
Proceedings of SSIP, AVPTI, Rajkot:
  • Mentor the Startups, leverage the Tinkering Lab support, and connect Start-ups with Start-up Ecosystem, help in Collaborations & Support Startups in Early Market Access.
  • Sensitize Students and Entrepreneurs about various support provided by SSIP. Conduct various programs related to Innovation, Tinkering Lab, IPR, Startup Support policies.
  • Execute and facilitate Seminars, Webinars, Boot camps, Trainings, FDPs, MoUs, Tinkering Lab Procurements, Co-working Space Maintenance, Necessary Startup Support etc.
Summary of SSIP Cell –AVPTI,RAJKOT Activities
Year 2022-2023
Exhibition
SR NO.
Date
Activity
Beneficiaries
1
6th to 9th December 2023
Exhibition  Participation  in Startup Conclave-2023    
1200+ visitors
Training
1
7th to 9th February  2023
Hands-on Workshop On IOT
50
2
30 September 2022
Student Start-up Research and Innovation Festival”
50
3
18th January 2023
Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme
31
4
2 February to 4 February 2023
Boot camp on Semiconductor Product Design
35
5
15th February 2023
Pitch Deck For Grants
30
6
16th February 2023
Academic and industry Ecosystem
30
7
17th February 2023
Pitch Deck For Grants Seminar
30
8
17th March 2023
Awareness Training Programme on Lean/Waste Management for Operational Excellence
75
9
29th April 2023
IPR filling for enterpreunrs
20
10
21 August-2023
Talk on Startup Journey
35
11
14 September 2023
Robotics
45
12
21 Augest-2024
incubation opptuanity erly stage Startup
25
13
14-10-2024
Drone Technology
62
14
2-1-2025 to 4-1-2025 and 9-1-25 to 10-1-25
5-Days Workshop On Introduction to Machine Learning
24