Dec 28, 2020, 18:29 PM IST
The Government s SSIP has created a wide range of incentives for innovators and startups. It has been seen that various Universities across the states are now taking concrete measures to implement the policy mandate. The Education Department, in order to benchmark the best performing Innovators/Startups, Institutions, Mentors, Enablers and other contributors organised the SSIP Prashansha Virtual Awards motivating the Initiative taken by students and their mentors. Vadodara based Parul University bagged 7 awards in the SSIP Prashansha Awards under the categories of Campus Startups, Women Startup Award, Young Innovators, Best Faculty Mentors and SSIP Coordinators. These 7 Awards under the above 5 categories are the highest for any university in Gujarat.
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VADODARA: Parul University bagged seven awards in the Student Startup and Innovation Policy (SSIP) Prashansha awards held virtually. The university won the awards in seven different categories.
According to the university, the number of awards it won was the highest for any university in the state. It won the awards in the Campus Startups, Women Startup, Young Innovators, Best Faculty Mentors and Best SSIP Coordinators category.
The winners include a group of engineering enthusiasts who established the startup AR Explorer that was awarded a prize money of Rs 50,000 under the Best Campus Startup category. Hetavi Shah, founder of Vatsalya Bakers bagged a prize of Rs 1,00,000 under the Women Startup category. In the Young Innovators category, Bhavik Bosamiya was awarded a prize of Rs 30,000. Bosamiya had come up with an innovation that helped to determine the strength of concrete by using sensors in in real time.
when i went there. now there s a whole venture lab dedicated just to on campus startups. technology has changed everything making it much easier to start a small company. i shated with a bunch of professors and asked them what would i learn if i were sitting in that seat in your class today instead of 15 years ago. .garth was my strategy professor back then. today he s dean of the entire school. i asked him how running a small business has changed in the last decade. i think innovation is in the air even more so than it was 15 years ago. take it out of a university setting for a second. i am a dry cleaner cleveland. how important is it important for me in the same way that you guys intermix with other departments for that person to intermix with other businesses? i think it s very important for them to get new ideas and to have an infusion of ideas that maybe come from businesses that look a little bit unrelated but may have an idea that you can