Nitte University DST TEC to mentor students for participation in Anveshan 2023

Date : 2023-08-24

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Anveshan is a student research convention organized by the Association of Indian Universities. This year, Anveshan is being organized in a hybrid mode to enable students from India to collaborate with students from universities overseas. Students from the undergraduate to doctoral level can participate, and this year, students are to form teams of a maximum of four, including at least one student from an overseas university. The team is to prepare a project that will be evaluated based on scientific thoughts and principles, thoroughness, creativity, relevance, and cost-effectiveness. Projects can be prepared in six themes: agriculture, basic sciences, health sciences, engineering and technology, social science, and interdisciplinary. DST TEC will be able to mentor students in team building, international collaboration, and project preparation.

Last updated 2023-11-20 05:33:15

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