About NISP:

The Hon'ble Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal, launched the National Innovation and Start-up Policy 2019 for students and faculty in HEIs at AICTE, New Delhi.

This policy aims to promote student-driven innovations and start-ups, as well as to engage students and faculty in campus innovation and start-up activities. The policy aims to enables to build, streamline, and strengthen the campus innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as to leverage the potential of students' creative problem solving and entrepreneurial mindsets, and to promote strong intra and inter-institutional partnerships with ecosystem enablers and various stakeholders at the regional, national, and international levels.

Vision:

• To develop systems and mechanisms for converting the current demographic dividend into high-quality technical human resources capable of cutting-edge research and innovation, as well as deep-tech entrepreneurship.
• To envision an educational system geared toward entrepreneurship and start-up opportunities for students and faculty.
• To provide ways for faculty and students to develop entrepreneurial agendas, manage Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) ownership, technology licensing, and equity sharing in Startups or enterprises.
• To provide high-quality technical human resources in terms of intellectual property ownership management, technology licensing, and institutional start-up policy, thereby enabling the creation of a robust innovation and start-up ecosystem across MIT ADT University.
• To emphasize that entrepreneurship is all about building a financially successful business.

Mission:

• To create a thriving and dynamic startup ecosystem across all engineering departments.
• To enable the institute to actively engage students, faculty, and staff in activities related to innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Working space assistance for collaboration, co-creation, business relationships, and knowledge exchange.
• To foster the institute in the management of Intellectual Property (IP), technology licensing, and equity sharing.

Objectives:

• Rapid Innovation Growth.
• Exposure to entrepreneurship and skill development
• Support Services for New Businesses
• Connect with the regional and national startup eco-systems.
• Support from industry, corporate and private partnerships.
• Commercialization of technology

Members of NISP:

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

Sr. No:	Name of the Expert	Designation	E-Mail ID
1.	Prof. Dr. Virendra Bhojwani	President -Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)	virendra.bhojwani@mituniversity.edu.in
2.	Prof. Suraj Bhoyar	Vice-President - Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)	suraj.bhoyar@mituniversity.edu.in
3.	Dr. Dadasaheb Shendage	Sr. General Manager, H2E	shendagedj@gmail.com
4.	Mr. Mrudang Shukla	Incubator Manager, AIC MIT ADT University	mrudang.shukla@mituniversity.edu.in
5.	Prof. Ashish Umbarkar	Convenor - Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)	ashish.umbarkar@mituniversity.edu.in
6.	Prof. Pratik Joshi	Member - Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC)	pratik.joshi@mituniversity.edu.in
7.	Prof. Rakesh Sidheshware	Research and Innovation Officer, IIC	rakesh.sidheshwar@mituniversity.edu.in
8.	Mr. Ankit Gupta	CEO & Founder, SAARK Customs	ankit.g@saarkcustoms.com
9.	Mr. Ganesh Thorat	CEO & Founder, Cerebrospark Limited	hr.cerebrospark@gmail.com

• MIT-ADT NISP Policy Documents : click here
• AIC-MIT ADT Incubator Startup Forum- Policy & Guideline : click here
• NISP Policy 2019 : click here