Centre for Innovation

The Centre for Innovation aims to inculcate a spirit of innovation and foster a culture of excellence and perfection among all the stakeholders at K L Deemed to be University.

It aims at making the campus a storehouse of ideas where all the processes are undertaken in the best manner which brings out maximum benefits to every individual on campus and the society. The Centre functions as a nodal agency which promotes ideation and innovation in each and every possible sphere of lives in the campus. CFI is a part of the Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (IIE) and, works in collaboration with centre of incubation and Entrepreneurship.

 Innovation Process:

Ideas may be spontaneous or directed. Ideas will be short listed through following stages:

Phase I:  Ideas fest will be conducted like start-up weekend where students of K L Deemed to be University or other college students will participate and present their ideas in presence of the internal and external experts. Some ideas will be short listed and finalized

Phase II: The CFI forwards these ideas to a team of experts for further analysis and discussion at a level that is one step closer towards implementation. This is done in collaboration with industry experts who test the idea in real world environments.

Phase III: This is the stage where one has to turn the idea into a solid written proposal and submit for financial support for implementation

Main components of CFI are:

  • Student’s innovation team
  • Faculty innovation team
  • Alumni innovation team

Benefits of innovation

  • Improve product quality
  • Learn about new technology
  • Reduce production cost
  • Reduce labour costs
  • Open up new markets
  • Reduce energy consumption
  • Reduce environment effects
  • Improve working conditions

 Research is a measure of innovation

Create and maintain a world class university will need to develop a culture of innovation in the university.

Innovation requires nothing short of a paradigm shift in the established ways of thinking about university education. It calls for Redefinition of knowledge and its purpose, Reorganization of branches of knowledge, Rethinking the existing practices of teaching-learning and research and Recognition of the limits of what we know

Three main pillars can be distinguished when considering the establishment of an innovation

culture in universities:

  • The first pillar dealing with skills, education and training for innovation
  • The second one focusing on innovation in research and knowledge transfer
  • The third one providing an innovation supporting infrastructural environment

Government of GOI recognized the importance of innovation and started National Innovation council.

Recognising the fundamental role of education in nurturing and fostering an ecosystem of innovation, the National Innovation Council of India is engaged in a series of initiatives to encourage innovations in existing educational institutions – universities, colleges and schools, as well as promoting new educational models and innovative platforms for knowledge creation, dissemination and application. National Innovation council of India has taken few initiatives; some of them are as follows:

(i) Creation of a National Innovation Promotion Service to replace/add to National Service Scheme in Colleges to use college students to identify local innovations.

(ii) Setting up a Meta University, as a new model for a 21st Century University where a network of institutions riding on the National Knowledge Network come together to offer students a collaborative and multidisciplinary learning experience.

(iii) Setting up twenty Design Innovation Centres co-located in institutes of national importance. It has been proposed to set up these Design Innovation Centres in twenty select institutions and include them in the 12th Plan for consideration by the Ministry of Human Resource Development. Co-location in campuses of national repute like IITs/NITs will help leveraging of academic and industry resources and give a boost to design capacity in the country.

(iv) Setting up University Innovation Clusters 
NInC proposes to identify and facilitate the development of 20 University Innovation Clusters across the country where innovation would be seeded through Cluster Innovation Centres. The CIC will provide a platform for the university and its partners to forge linkages between various stakeholders from industry and academia, initiate and assist innovation activities, encourage innovations in curricula and act as a catalyst and facilitator.

Two pilots at Delhi Univ., New Delhi & Maharaja Sayajirao University (MSU), Baroda, Gujarat are underway. The CIC at Delhi University has launched a B.Tech. Program in Innovation and is pursuing collaborative relationships with industry bodies like PHD Chamber of Commerce, Network of ICT Entrepreneurs & Enterprises (NITEE) and others.

Government of Andhra Pradesh also recognized that the innovation and incubation is very much required for paradigm shift of Andhra Pradesh, so, Govt of A.P prepared innovation and start-up policy-2014-2020 with following focused areas.

  • Internet of Things (IOT)
  • Social media, Mobility, Analytics and Cloud Computing
  • Fabless semiconductors
  • Animation and Gaming
  • Entertainment
  • Visual Effects
  • Health and Fitness
  • Automotive

Innovation is 1% ideation, 9% evaluation 7% polishing but 90% implementation

In short,

  • Innovation takes many forms. Innovation can be a process, product, service, or anything that helps firms to perform better.
  • Innovation can originate from anyone. Anyone can innovate, as innovation requires a mindset that probes perceived boundaries to bring new ideas to fruition.
  • Innovation is the transformation of creative ideas into useful applications by combining resources in new or unusual ways to provide value to the society through improved products, technology, or services.

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