Vision: 

Empowering the young population of the State to unlock their creative potential through Start-up and Innovation so as to enable them to contribute for sustainable development and inclusive growth towards the realization of Aatmanirbhar Gujarat.

Mission:

• Create a student-centric innovation and incubation ecosystem across the academia and establish at all levels of education: Schools, Institutes and Universities.

• Develop functional incubators at all universities in the State to scout and nurture innovation and Start-up across academia and enable them for maximum value creation for the industry, society and the State at large.

• Build internal capacity of educational institutions and strengthening mentoring processes on innovation, entrepreneurship, and also Intellectual Property related awareness programs and to develop the mechanisms for the same.

• Set up a common robust digital platform that would allow seamless support to stakeholders and develop an integrated mechanism of performance analysis by fixing predetermined Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

• Encouraging students, innovators and Start-ups in sunrise sectors, traditional and disruptive technologies and to Formulate and implement various interventions and mandates based on learnings from best practices and past efforts to facilitate the journey of Mind-to-market.

• Nurture the evolution of Gujarat Start-up ecosystem across its various phases like emergence, activation, integration and maturity.

Eligibility to receive SSIP 2.0 Grant (For Individual Beneficiaries):

Any person up to the age of 35 years, who is,

•A school student of Foundational/Preparatory/Middle/Secondary level (Up to Class 12)

•A Diploma/Vocational/Undergraduate/Postgraduate/Doctoral student or an alumna/alumnus

•Any dropout from School/Institute/University

The innovation of the beneficiary should contribute towards either development or improvement of any product or process or service in existing or new fields; or should be a scalable business model with a potential to generate employment or wealth creation.

Support to Individual Beneficiaries

•The support and financial provisions for individual beneficiaries satisfying eligibility criteria, are as below:

Beneficiary Support

All Beneficiaries

•Exposure to Tinkering Lab, Innovation Lab, Incubation Centers

•Large scale sensitization, events and programs for developing Scientific Mindset

•Collective/Community level support system and activities

•Capacity Building

Class 9 to Class 12

•Maximum INR 20,000 per PoC/Prototype /Innovation

Higher and Technical Education

•Maximum INR 2.50 Lakh per PoC/Prototype /Innovation

•IP Support up to 100% of expenses

IPR Support

•IPR supports provisioned under the Policy for all beneficiaries are listed below:

Type of IPR

Support Provisioned (Up to)

Patents

INR 75,000 for Domestic,

INR 1.5 Lakh for other countries

Copyrights

INR 8,000

Trademarks

INR 12,500

International Registration of Marks

INR 50,000

Industrial Design

INR 9,000

Plant Variety Registry

INR 33,000

Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry (SICLDR)

INR 15,000

SSIP 2.0 Cell of Government Engineering College, Dahod

Principal:

Dr. K. B. Judal 

Coordinator:

Dr. N. B. Umravia ( Applied Mechanics Department) 

Core Committee members:

Dr. D. P. Contractor (Computer)

Prof. S. A. Shah  (Mechanical)

Dr. N. B. Umravia (Applied Mech./ Civil)

Prof. M. M. Mahida (Electrical)

Prof. H. R. Patel (EC)

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