The National Innovation and Start-up Policy

The ‘National Innovation and Start-up Policy 2019 for students and faculty in HEIs was launched by Hon’ble Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ on 11th September 2019 at AICTE, New Delhi.

This policy intends to guide HEIs for promoting student-driven innovations & start-ups and to engage the students and faculty in innovation and start-up activities on campus. The policy aims at enabling HEIs to build, streamline and strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem on campus and will be instrumental in leveraging the potential of student’s creative problem solving and entrepreneurial mindset, and promoting a strong intra and interinstitutional partnerships with ecosystem enablers and different stakeholders at regional, national and international level. The policy is being implemented by MoE’s Innovation Cell and in coordination with AICTE, UGC, State/ UT Governments, and universities. Implementation of policy has been undertaken for quick adoption by HEIs. The present policy is a way forward to the earlier version of AICTE’s Start-up Policy which was launched in the year 2016 to complement the Startup Action Plan under the Startup India and Stand-up India Program launched by the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India.

NISP POLICY

Administrative Set-up

A committee has been formed by identifying the experts having experience and expertise in the domain of innovation and startups to start the work of policy formation and implementation of guidelines at the institute.

Members of the committee

  1. Viju Jacob (Entrepreneur)
  2. Shaju Varghese  -Principal (President)
  3. Alias K Peter (Alumni)
  4. Bincy Baby (NISP Coordinator)
  5. Sindhu T.I.
  6. Gracy K.S.
  7. Sona S. Dev
  8. Renu Susan Samuel
  9. Soumya Kuriakose
  10. Basil B Mathew
  11. Ambily Chacko

NISP Cell Activities