About
Institution’s Innovation Council of Central University of Rajasthan (IIC@CURAJ) was setup under the scheme of Ministry of Education to setup Institution’s Innovation Council in higher education institute (HEIs). Initially IIC@CURAJ set up with the aim of identifying, encouraging, and fostering scientific talent within the CURAJ family as well as surrounding areas.
Since 2020, it was realized that IIC@CURAJ must play a bigger role in developing entrepreneurial mindset in the faculties and students. Our nation targets to become 5 trillion-dollar economy by 2024. To reach this benchmark, HEIs have to plays a vital role by evolving ecosystem and mechanisms to convert the young minds into high quality technical human resource capable of doing cutting edge research, innovation and entrepreneurship. To develop this culture in CURAJ, IIC@CURAJ started conducting sessions on innovations, startups and entrepreneurship. The primary mandate of IIC@CURAJ is to encourage, inspire and nurture young students by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform them into prototypes while they are in campus. IIC@CURAJ puts in concerted efforts to identify grass-root innovators from neighboring villages in varied domains such as agriculture, engineering, etc. In the academic year 2020-21, IIC@CURAJ had secured three-star rating with 13 activities performed during the year.
Aims & Objectives
The primary aim of the IIC@CURAJ is to build a strong innovation ecosystem at CURAJ. To achieve this number of objectives have been decided by the IIC@CURAJ. These objectives are:
- To develop a friendly innovation ecosystem among the faculties, staff and students where majority of stakeholders remain motivated for doing innovation in any area of their interest that is beyond the boundaries of departments.
- To train and educate the faculties and students about various aspects of innovation and startups
- To establish and adopt functional “National Innovation and Startup Policy for students and faculties” in the CURAJ
- To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem
- Start-up supporting Mechanism in HEIs
- Prepare institute for Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements Framework
- Establish Function Ecosystem for Scouting Ideas and Pre-incubation of Ideas
- To facilitate interaction between the teaching / student communities and grass-root innovators
- Mentoring of grass-root innovators to facilitate the transfer of technology to the society
Members
| Expert | Designation | Name |
| Senior Faculty Member of the institution
| President | Vice Chancellor |
| Faculty Member | Convener | Dr. Akhil Aqan,ral |
| Faculty Members | Member | Dr. Partha Rov |
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| Co-opted Members | Dr. Subrat K Panda Dr. Rakesh Kumar Dr. Ritu Singh Dr. Shailesh KumarPatidar |
| lICs Coordinator (Student) | Coordinator | Committee to identify |
| Representative from nearby lncubation Centre | Member | Committee to identify |
| Representative of SIDBI / NABARD / Lead Bank / lnvestor | Member | Committee to identify |
| Technical Experts from nearby industry | Member | Committee to identify |
| Alumni Entrepreneurs from the Host I institutions (Optiona l) | Member | Committee to identify |
| Students from the host institution | Member | Committee to identify |
| Patent Expert (Optional) | Special lnvitee | Committee to identify |
Functions of IIC@CURAJ
- To conduct various innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities prescribed by Central MIC in time bound fashion
- Identify and reward innovations and share success stories
- Organize periodic workshops/ seminars/ interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators
- Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations
- Create an Institution’s Innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by institution’s faculty and students
- Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini-challenges etc. with the involvement of industries
Highlights of Few Activities Conducted in 2020-21
Calendar of Activities (2021- 2022)
Resolutions for 2021-22 (Quarter 1 and 2 Merged)
| Activity | Coordinators | Tentative week for the activity |
| Entrepreneurship and Innovation as Career Opportunity | Dr. Akhil Agrawal and Dr. Kaisar Raza | Dec 1-7, 2021 |
| My story- Motivation Session by Successful Entrepreneur/Start-up Founder | Dr. Subrat Kumar Panda and Dr. Tarun K Bhatt | Dec 1-7, 2021 |
| Design Thinking, Critical Thinking and Innovation Design” | Prof. Sanjib K Panda, Dr. Kaisar Raza and Dr. Ved Prakash | Dec 8-14, 2021 |
| Process and Innovation Development and TRL and Commercialization of Lab Technologies and Tech Transfer | Dr. Akhil Agrawal and Dr. Kaisar Raza | Dec 15-21, 2021 |
| Exposure to Field Visit for Problem Identification. The identified place was Tilonia Market | Dr. Ved Prakash and Dr. Tarun K Bhatt | Dec 21-24, 2021 |
| Field/Exposure Visit to Preincubation Unit, identified as IIT Jodhpur | Dr. Akhil Agrawal and Dr. Kaisar Raza | To be fixed upon approval from IIT Jodhpur |
| Pitching Event for Proof-of-Concept Development at the University Level | Team IIC@CURAJ | To be fixed upon approval from experts |
Contact Us
Faculty Member Convener Dr. Akhil Agarwal (akhilagrawal@curaj.ac.in)
