Implementing Body:
Education Department, Government of Gujarat
About the Policy:
The Student Startup & Innovation Policy (SSIP) is a first-of-its-kind policy in the country that shall create a much-needed Innovation and Preincubation Ecosystem Support for Students (IPIES) across the state, by adding to the startup ecosystem of Gujarat and creating a strong innovation-driven culture in the state’s higher education spectrum.
The policy is aimed to outreach and sensitize 5 million students for innovation and entrepreneurship, covering at least 1000 Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), 10,000 Schools of the State and providing assistance to 5000 Intellectual Property Filing.
Objective:
This initiative intends to create an integrated, state-wide, university-based innovation ecosystem to support innovations and ideas of young students and provide a conducive environment for optimum harnessing of their creative pursuit:
- Create a student-centric innovation and incubation ecosystem across academia.
- Build internal capacity of educational institutions and key components of the innovation ecosystem to enable deployed processes to make sustainable impact at scale.
- Formulate and implement various interventions and mandates based on learnings from best practices and past efforts to facilitate the journey of Mind-to-market.
- Scout and nurture innovation and start-ups across academia and enable them for maximum value creation for the industry, society and the state at large.
- Set up a common robust digital platform that would allow seamless support to stakeholders.
- Leverage public system initiatives at state and central level, academia, industries and by other ecosystem stakeholders / domain experts and institutions to make an inclusive effort.
- Build internal capacity of educational institutions and strengthen mentoring processes.
Financial Assistance:
The support and financial provisions for individual beneficiaries satisfying eligibility criteria, is mentioned 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 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 |
| 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 |
Eligibility Criteria:
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.
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