NISP Implementation Committee

Our Institution has started the efforts for implementing the National Innovation and Startup Policy (NISP) under the aegis of the Government of India Ministry of Education Innovation Cell (MIC). The Policy aims at promoting Innovation and Startup culture among the students and faculty of Higher Education Institutions. The NISP Implementation Committee is constituted for the framing of Guru Nanak College's Innovation and Startup Policy as per NISP 2019 and the effective implementation of the Policy.

S.No.	Role	Name of the Faculty	Designation
1	Chairperson	Dr. T. K. Avvai Kothai	Principal
2	NISP Coordinator	Dr. Mahendrakumar. M	Convener GNIIC & Coordinator IPR Cell
3	Member	Dr. Gayathri Harikumar	President GNIIC & Dean - GNCIIES
4	Member	Mr. M. Sankaranarayanan	NIRF/ARIIA Coordinator - GNIIC
5	Member	Dr. R. Akila	Social Media Coordinator - GNIIC
6	Member	Dr. E. Gayathiri	Member GNIIC
7	Member	Ms. S. Gayathri	Member GNIIC

Vision

To be a center of excellence for nurturing the concerted entrepreneurial effort between the academia and the industry that transmogrifies students’ innovative ideas into viable, marketable products and services. To engage, encourage and channelize the creative energy and entrepreneurial potential for build sustainable start-ups and contribute to nation building.

Mission

• To incubate and support designing, developing and launching students innovative ideas into successful startups
• To create entrepreneurial opportunities for students, faculty and researchers
• To nurture technology and knowledge- based ventures through start-up phase by providing the necessary support
• To provide exposure and opportunities for internship and field visits leading to entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurial Development Cell

Entrepreneurship development is the process of enhancing the entrepreneurial knowledge and skills via structured training programmes. Entrepreneurship cell is a key contributor to innovativeness and product improvement and plays a pivotal role to employment creation.

Entrepreneurship Development Cell of our college is a key contributor to the startup centre by providing innovativeness and product improvement and plays a pivotal role to employment creation. Our College staff members are qualified professionals in entrepreneurship development programs both by the governmental and non-governmental agencies. ED cell and the start-up centre play an integrated part in transforming budding entrepreneurs into job creators directly after graduation, as well as providing a forum to turn the student's creative concepts into a sustainable business, which meets many of the needs of students to become dynamic entrepreneurs.

• To create awareness among the students about various aspects of entrepreneurship as an alternative career option and to highlight the advantages of pursuing such an option.
• To motivate the students for entrepreneurial career and to make them capable of perceiving and exploiting successfully opportunities for enterprises.
• To get an insight into the entrepreneurial theory and practice through training and workshops.
• To organize, competitions to unleash the entrepreneurial potential among students.
• To facilitate students to convert innovative project into marketable product facilitating early stage start-up through proper mentoring
• To collaborate with entrepreneurship promotion agencies, organisations and bodies such as MGNCRE and BYST.

Innovation Cell

Objectives of GNC Innovation Cell

Notionally any innovation leads to significant and meaningful improvisation in the resource, processes and also in providing services.

Innovation towards sustainability

• To provide the necessary resources for students- like labs
• To create suitable ecosystem for ideation and scaling-up
• To motivate creativity among students through competition
• To provide plat form where innovation leads to Entrepreneurship

STUDENT INNOVATION POLICY (SIP)

• Policy aims to foster and nurture a positive ecosystem to promote research and innovation among student community.
• Policy aims to build a robust system to support and guide various levels at idea, innovation and preincubation stages
• Policy aims to identify the strength and weakness to catalyze positive mindset among student community

Innovation Cell Coordinator
Dr J Vanathi

Innovation Cell

Objectives of GNC Innovation Cell

Notionally any innovation leads to significant and meaningful improvisation in the resource, processes and also in providing services.

Innovation towards sustainability

• To provide the necessary resources for students- like labs
• To create suitable ecosystem for ideation and scaling-up
• To motivate creativity among students through competition
• To provide plat form where innovation leads to Entrepreneurship

STUDENT INNOVATION POLICY (SIP)

• Policy aims to foster and nurture a positive ecosystem to promote research and innovation among student community.
• Policy aims to build a robust system to support and guide various levels at idea, innovation and preincubation stages
• Policy aims to identify the strength and weakness to catalyze positive mindset among student community

Innovation Cell Coordinator
Dr. Bharathi Ravikrishnan	Head of the Department, Department of Biotechnology

Student Coordinators
Charles	II MBA
Punit Kumar D	III B.Sc. Physics
Shakthivasan	III B.Sc. Biotechnology
Suriya EM	III B.Sc. Plant Biology & Plant Biotechnology
Varun Kumar SR	II B.Sc. Chemistry
Achyut B S	II B.Sc. Chemistry
Nandhini A	II MBA
Vedakshi	I MBA
Meena S	II B.Sc. Chemistry
Revanth Shankar	I B.Sc. Biotechnology

Internship/Field Visit Cell

Internship offer students the chance to convert their learning into action in their real-world environment. This helps them a better understanding of theories and strategies and focusing more on team work, problem solving skills and adaptability skills to become a successful entrepreneur.

Field visits helps in developing geographical concepts, elements and process through direct personal experiences. It helps in introspecting the students himself/herself in their innovative ideas and in the journey of becoming an entrepreneurship.

Objectives

• To interact with the successful entrepreneur
• To Identify the real-life problems among the Stakeholders.
• To provide exposure to students & faculties on the current trends in the Industries.
• To gain firsthand exposure of working in the real world.
• To identify and explore their innovative ideas and establish their startup

Internship/Field Visit Cell Coordinator
Dr S Bhuvaneswari

Social Media IIC

Social media is a platform that connects every individual and enables them to showcase their talents and achievements. The Social Media Cell of Guru Nanak Institution's Innovation Council plays a pivotal role in sharing the events organized by the Council in the global platform. The main objective of Cell is to compile the various events happening in the Council and document them to create a significant digital presence for the college globally. The student coordinators of the council collect the information and submit the compiled information to the Official Social Media Handles of the College.

The GNC IIC activities are promoted through GNC social media network.

FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/groups/gncchennai

INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/gnc_chennai/

TWITTER : https://twitter.com/GNC_Chennai

LINKEDIN : https://www.linkedin.com/school/gurunanak-college

YOUTUBE : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC--O58FD3YHotUZyzc4ocyg

Social Media Cell Coordinator
Dr R Akila

Intellectual Property Rights Cell

Intellectual property is critical in establishing a strategic framework for every institution. Intangible properties such as technologies, licenses, trademarks, prototypes, and other novel and creative concepts are more valuable than tangible assets. Research and Innovation in our Nation emerge both from industry as well as academic institutions and Guru Nanak College recognizes the need for academic contributions and to come up with innovative solutions to age old problems. In today’s era, where intellectual property rights (IPRs) are internationally enforceable, the need to impart knowledge about the different forms of IPRs and their protection to the young generation is very much mandatory in order to develop a conducive environment where they are equipped to create novel and original innovations and protect them simultaneously.

The GNC IPR Cell was inaugurated on 7th March 2020, is devoted to support promote and develop the various Intellectual Properties such as Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks, among other things, which are created by the College as well as to help the general public by imparting awareness, information and knowledge regarding IPR. The cell builds favorable atmosphere in the academia for the creation and improvement of the various Intellectual Properties. Faculty and students of GNC are actively participating in the IPR filing process in different disciplines.

Intellectual Property Rights Cell Coordinator
Dr Mahendrakumar M

GNIIC Activities 2020-23