About (Team)

The working group of the Innovation Ecosystem at Sri Ramachandra Instititute of Higher Education and Research is headed by Dean (Research) Dr. Kalpana Balakrishnan. The Entrepreneurship Development Council (EDC) headed by Dr. Roy Santhosham is the umbrella body of all innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities within the SRIHER. It comprises of the SRIIC BioNEST Bioincubator team headed by the CEO Dr. Hardeep Vora, The Inisitution’s Innovation Council (IIC) team headed by Dr. Vidya Ramkumar, the National Innovation and Start-up Policy (NISP) team headed by Dr. M. S. Muthu and the Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievement (ARIIA) team headed by Dr. Alan Punnoose. The working group helps to identify the needs of the start-ups/ individuals/ faculty and student entrepreneurs and direct them to the appropriate cell for detailed discussions. It also works towards enhancing the national ranking of SRIHER through coordinated activities for innovation and entrepreneurship such as organizing talks and events.

In 2018, the Ministry of Education launched the Institution’s Innovation Council program for Higher Education Institutions to systematically foster the culture of innovation and start-up ecosystem in educational institutions. The role of the IIC is to engage a large number of faculty, students and staff in various innovation and entrepreneurship related activities such as ideation, problem solving, proof-of-concept development, design thinking etc.

The National Innovation and Strat-up Policy 2019 for students and faculty of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) was launched by the Ministry of Education. This policy intends to guide HEIs for promoting students’ driven innovations & start-ups and to engage the students and faculty in innovation and start up activities in campus. The policy aims at enabling HEIs to build, streamline and strengthen the innovation and entrepreneurial ecosystem in campus and will be instrumental in leveraging the potential of student’s creative problem solving and entrepreneurial mind-set, and promoting a strong intra and inter-institutional partnerships with ecosystem enablers and different stakeholders at regional, national and international level.

Atal Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements (ARIIA) is an initiative of Ministry of Education (MoE), Govt. of India to systematically rank all major higher educational institutions and universities in India on indicators related to “Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development” amongst students and faculties. ARIIA will focus on quality of innovations and will try to measure the real impact created by these innovations nationally and internationally. Moreover, ARIIA will set tone and direction for institutions for future development for making them globally competitive and in forefront of innovation