Overview : SSIP

The Student Startup & Innovation Policy of Government of Gujarat aims 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. The Student Startup & Innovation Policy synergises complementary efforts by different stakeholders while making strong efforts towards cultural change among students, pre incubation support and other necessary measures required in creating and nurturing student innovations and help sustaining them. The policy ensures that the missing links of the innovation value chain like prototype support, IP protection, knowledge-based enterprise development, platform to showcase success stories, and similar challenges get mitigated through policy and allied support. Through this policy, innovation and pre incubation support across the state in academia will be inclusive on sectors, space and other aspects. It will aspire to create student innovators turning startups beyond technology domain as well.

Key Objectives of SSIP

The Student Startup & Innovation Policy of Government of Gujarat aims 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.

1. • Developing student centric Innovation and Pre incubation Ecosystem for Students (IPIES)
2. • Creating environment for creativity to flourish and an end-to-end support system in educational institutions to allow ample support to ideas for better execution
3. • Build internal capacity of educational institutions and key components of the innovation ecosystem to enable deployed processes to make sustainable impact at scale
4. • Create pathways for mind to market by harnessing and handholding projects/ research/ innovation/ ideas of students in Gujarat
5. • Creating and facilitating sectoral and regional innovation efforts in state around educational institutions
6. • Create a common platform to showcase, support and upscale innovations for motivating stakeholders as well as for an opportunity to create value for money and value for many
7. • 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.