What is NISP?
The ‘National Innovation and Start-up Policy 2019 for students and faculty in
HeS Is was launched by Hon’ble Minister of Education, Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal
‘Nishank’ on 11th September 2019 at AICTE,
New Delhi.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
interinstitutional partnerships with ecosystem enablers and different
stakeholders at regional, national and international level.The policy is being implemented by MoE’s Innovation Cell and in coordination AICTE, UGC,
state/ UT governments and universities.
Vision
“Creative and Design Thinking to nurture motivate build and promote new
innovative thinking, to provide highly flexible combination of business
development processes designed to nurture and grow new and small business”
Mission
“To build an environment that facilitate creation of social enterprise
knowledge through research academia to apply in innovation ideas to develop
solutions for even rural technologies greater social impact through academia
and to enable students and faculty to innovate and prototype their potential
ideas with industrial standards and support from Government, industry and
reputed academic institutions around the world and help them to realize their
potentials”
Short Term goals of NISP
1. To critical thinking and innovation among students and faculties.
2. To promote and help the students for ideation and prototyping of potential inhouse startups.
3. Planning of various activities like FDP, expert talk, seminars and workshops related to innovation, statups and entrepreneurship to create awareness among students/faculties.
4. To enable, build and enhance the network of experts and mentors for consultancy and project funding to make the innovation and venture successful.
Long Term Goals of NISP
1. Improve quality of research to attain commercially viable patent.
2. Incubation facility for student and faculty driven start-ups.
3. Provide an environment to nurture creativity and innovation for potential startups.
4. Developing innovative projects using the emerging technologies for potential problems in the field of agriculture and healthcare.
5. Creating association with DST, MSME, CII academic/research institutions etc for funding/grants.
Committee formation for implementing National Innovation and Startup Policy (NISP) 2021 at NEC
The National Innovation and Startup Policy 2019 for students and faculty of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) will enable the institutes to actively engage students, faculties and staff in innovation and entrepreneurship related activities.As per the guidelines given by Dr. Dipen Sahu, Assistant Innovation Director at the Ministry of Education's Innovation Cell & AICTE in his online session on 11th Jaunary 2021, the following committee has been formed for the implementation and monitoring of NISP at NEC. The members have agreed to take up their roles in the committee as per guidelines in the above mentioned session.
| Name of the Member |
Affiliation |
NISP Role |
| Dr M.Sreenivasa Kumar |
Head of the Institute, NEC |
President, NISP |
| Dr D.Suneel |
Vice Principal, NEC |
Research Advisor |
| Dr S.V.N.Sreenivasu |
Professor in CSE |
NISP Coordinator and Convener & In Charge, IIC |
| Dr S. Venkata Ramana |
Professor & HoD in MBA |
Incharge EDC |
| Mr Venkatesh |
Alumni of NEC |
Entrepreneur |
| Mr. SK. Nabi Khaja |
Alumni of NEC |
Entrepreneur |
| Dr S. Venkata Ramana |
Professor & HoD in MBA |
Innovation Ambassador |
| Mr Ashok Reddy |
GOB Member |
Startup Founder |
| Mr M.S. Chakravarthi |
MD, M/s Mittapalli Spinners, Narasaraopet |
Industry Expert |
| Dr A.V.Nageswara Rao |
Professor in ECE |
NISP Member |
| Dr P.Suresh Babu |
Professor in ME |
NISP Member |
| Mr Sk.Md. Shareef |
Associate Professor in EEE |
NISP Member |
| Dr P.Naga Sowjanya |
Professor & HoD in Civil |
NISP Member |
Important documents related to NISP
Institute Innovation and Startup Policy
Andhra Pradesh State Innovation Start-up Policy
National Innovation and Startup Policy