World Entrepreneurs Day

Date : 2023-08-21

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World Entrepreneurs Day was celebrated on August 21, 2023, to recognize the success of entrepreneurs and to motivate researchers and students to take up their ideas for commercialization. On this day, Mr. Sathya Shankar and his partner, Ms. Ranjitha Shankar, owner of the successful organic juice business ‘Bindu Jeera’ in Costal, Karnataka, were felicitated.

Last updated 2023-11-18 07:12:30

Meeting on Patent Commercialization

Date : 2023-08-21

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A meeting of patent applicants of Health Sciences institutions of Nitte University was held on 21 Aug 2023 at Chintana Hall, KS Hegde Hospital, Mangalore. About 20 patent applicants attended the meeting. Dr. Indrani Karunasagar, Director, DST TEC welcomed all the participants and highlighted the need to commercialise patents. Dr. M.S. Moodithaya, Vice Chancellor emphasized that this meeting was to create more awareness about business possibilities of intellectual property and the need to demystify this among academicians. He explained types of Companies that can be formed – proprietary, partnership, private limited and public limited. He urged the patent applicants to make use of the facilities Dr. Iddya Karunasagar explained about the policies of the University - Intellectual Property Rights and Technology Policy and Startup and Entrepreneurship Policy and how faculty could take advantage of the provisions. The participants asked for clarifications on the steps to avail pre-incubation and incubation facilities at Atal Incubation Center, Nitte. There was also discussion on the process of technology transfer to established companies. Dr. Iddya Karunasagar gave examples of technology transfer agreements executed previously and non-disclosure agreement before discussions about technology. Dr. Srinikethan spoke on behalf of AIC Nitte and the present status of incubates. He highlighted the need to have more faculty from Nitte institutions to avail incubation and seed fund facility at AIC Nitte.

Last updated 2023-10-09 09:06:40

Guidance session for potential applicants of BIRAC BIG

Date : 2023-07-25

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Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Mumbai, in collaboration with DST TEC, Nitte, and other ecosystem partners, organized a guidance session for potential applicants to BIRAC BIG on July 25, 2023. Dr. Indrani Karunasagar was a panelist.

Last updated 2023-11-20 05:23:26

Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics

Date : 2023-07-17

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A five-day training program on "Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics was conducted by Nitte University Research Center in association with Biokart India Pvt. Ltd. from July 17 to 21, 2023. The resource persons were Mr. Vikram S, CEO, Biokart India Pvt. Ltd. and Ms. Helga Jenifer, Senior Bioinformatician, Biokart India Pvt. Ltd.

Last updated 2023-11-20 04:09:57

Lecture Programme on “INNOVATION TO STARTUP”

Date : 2023-07-07

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DST technology Enabling Center, in association with A B Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences (ABSMIDS) and Institution Innovation Council (IIC) organized a Lecture Programme on “INNOVATION TO STARTUP” on July 07 at 10.00 AM at Aavishkar Hall. Dr. Vivekanand Kattimani, Professor of Clinical Research and Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, SIBAR Institute of Dental Sciences was the invited Speaker. About 150 participants including faculty and students from different disciplines attended the lecture. Dr. Indrani Karunasagar, Director, DST TEC welcomed the guests and provided an overview of DST TEC activities. Dr. Iddya Karunasagar, Advisor (Research and Patent) explained the Nitte University Policy on Intellectual Property Rights to protect innovations and support available from DST TEC for applying for patents, scaling up from idea to proof of concept, prototype, validation and commercialization. He also explained about Nitte University Policy on Startups and encouraged faculty and students in coming forward to setup Startups. Dr. U.S. Krishna Nayak, Principal, ABSMIDS in his presidential address urged faculty and students to take their innovative ideas forward and learn from the experience of Dr. Vivekanand. Dr. Padmaraj Hegde, Head of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery introduced the speaker, Dr. Vivekanand Kattimani.   The lecture by Dr. Vivekanand was very interactive and he explained about product and product performance innovation, technology innovation, process innovation, business model innovation, organizational innovation, marketing/sales new channel innovation and network innovation. He elaborated that innovation can be incremental, architectural, disruptive or radical. Dr. Vivekanand gave example of ideation and idea generation, evaluation of the ideas, testing, experimenting and reaching minimum viable product, optimization and scaling. He provided a number of tips for enhancing innovation. Further, he explained about innovations that have gone into smart medical devices. He then outlined his journey in developing bone graft substitute from egg shell hydroxyapetite. He started with small funding from DST and the work done helped him get Biotechnology Ignition Grant after few attempts where he missed narrowly. He explained how translational work was carried out to move from Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 3 to current level of 6/7 with collaborations from number of institutions in India and how he is chasing the dream of commercialization of the product. The talk was highly motivating and inspirational. Dr. Praveen Kumar Shetty, Director, R & D thanked the speaker and participants for their active involvement in the interactive session.

Last updated 2023-11-20 04:12:39