IIT Hyderabad celebrates inovation day with showcase of 30 Implement-ready Innovations

7 Enablers, 15 Researchers’ Innovations & 15 Start-ups’ Innovations in the area of Personal to Environmental care, Nano Formulation to Battery Management; IITH showcased the Vivid & Vibrant Ecosystem of Inventing & Innovating in Technology in Humanity with the display of 30 Proud Industry-ready Innovations. 

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad celebrated the first of its kind Innovation Day, a day specifically dedicated to providing a platform for collaborations between Startups, Industry, Academia, and tech transfer-ready innovations. This Innovation Day is another step by IITH towards proactively taking the Industry-Academia relationship forward, the institute said.

The inaugural event was graced by Guest of Honor, Dr Srivari Chandrasekhar (Secretary, Department of Science & Technology, Govt. of India) & Srikanth Velamakanni (Co-founder, Group Chief Executive & Vice-Chairman, Fractal Analytics); in the kind presence of Dr BVR Mohan Reddy (BoG Chair, IIT Hyderabad) & Professor B S Murty (Director, IIT Hyderabad). Due to some urgent commitment, Chief Guest, Kishan Reddy (Minister of Tourism, Culture and Development of Northeastern Region of India, Govt. of India), could not witness the event & send this wishes for the success of it.

7 Enablers, 15 Researchers’ Innovations & 15 Start-ups’ Innovations in the area of Personal to Environmental care, Nano Formulation to Battery Management; IITH showcased the Vivid & Vibrant Ecosystem of Inventing & Innovating in Technology in Humanity with the display of 30 Proud Industry-ready Innovations. 

Professor B S Murty, Director, IITH, said, “IIT Hyderabad has inculcated innovation in its DNA from its with fractal academics system and many innovative UG/PG programs like a BTech in Engineering Sciences, Computational Engineering, MTech in Medical Device Innovation, etc. With a motto to be the leader in Innovation and to think out of the box, we started many interdisciplinary programs. IIT Hyderabad cultivates a strong innovation culture among students by the BUILD (Bold and Unique Ideas Leading to Development) Projects, where a call for innovative proposals is done twice a year, and the selected projects are given funding support up to INR 1 Lakh, to begin with and then further supported as they proceed and we provide 6 credits for the students to pursue their innovative projects.”

Professor S Suryakumar, Dean (Innovation, Translation and Startups), IITH, gave a roundup of Innovation Day’23 and, said, “Innovation is an idea that has a user connect or a market connect, it is always developed in context with the requirements of the end user i. e. commercialisation or a utilization. Innovation can be done by an individual entrepreneur with adequate passion. Innovation is driven by passion and supported by resources, in this context IIT Hyderabad facilitates those passionate innovators might be the Students, Faculty or the entrepreneurs outside IIT etc by helping them get the right ecosystem and right platform to make their idea into a working prototype and then into a successful product. IITH provides a vibrant ecosystem to address the various parts of innovation with 3 incubators iTIC, CfHE, and FabCI and we have Technology Centres like TiHAN and Industry hubs like Research Park. IITH also has an Institute Innovation Policy to integrate all these Hubs together. The exhibition of today is the result of all the entrepreneurship activities at IITH. They are categorized into 3 Facilitators, Technologies developed by the students and faculty of IITH, and work done by the Startups of IITH”.

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