GTU Innovation Council

1. INNOVATIONS @ GTU
Interaction with Global Leaders of Fujitsu
Naresh Jadeja
Deputy Director
Gujarat Technological University
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Email: deputy_dir2@gtu.edu.in
www.gtu.ac.in
www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in

2. GTU & Fujitsu
One common thing
Fujitsu – Human Centric Innovation
&
GTU – Research relevant to the needs of the
society/Industry

3. About GTU
400,000 plus students, 17,000+ faculties
Distance between two GTU affiliated institutes - 774 KM
Gujarat’s 95% of Engineering/Mgt./Pharmacy students
study at GTU. 100,000 plus students enrolling every year.
Challenge: Policy makers are from remaining 6%
institutions
Enrolment - First time in the Family Engineers

4. Challenge - Can Innovation happen in
Tier 2 / Tier 3 Cities?
GTU Innovation Council (GIC) was established – Aug’10
First Objective – To nurture creativity and innovation
within the University community
Designed to act as a catalyst of change for the whole of
the society.

5. How it happened?
 Road map
 Implementation of Road map
 Shift from Individual – Institution
 Feedback from 10,000 faculty – students - industry
 3 layers where innovation happens :
 College – Cluster – Central
 Interaction and Establishment of 25 Sankul (Clusters)
 Shodh Yatra (Journey for Innovation) - IDP
 300 UDISHA clubs were established to map every student with an industry
 100,000 plus students tried to solve problems of industries spread across 70 plus industry
clusters.
 1st large-scale effort by an University to link each of its students with an industry.
Mentoring

6. How it happened?
Work in Progress
Mapped 10,000 plus MSME’s (Micro, Small & Medium
Enterprises) across the state for benchmarking industrial
needs and process challenges
Appreciation & Awards by national & international
organization
1900 plus MSMEs have written to the University that they
have benefitted economically by adopting innovation
suggested by students of GTU’s first batch graduated in 2012

7. How it happened?
IPR
Largest sensitization program in the country
4000 plus Faculty & students trained for preliminary patent filing
Patent clinics
240 plus patents filed in 2 years
Ideas to Concept – Concept to Product – Product to Market
Starting - Student Start up Support System (S4)

8. Innovation with Indian essence - Reverse Innovation
Community Innovation & Co-Creation Centers (C-i-C3)
Website - http://cic3.gtu.ac.in

9. Fellowship Program
 A student would be selected as an Fellow based on his/her aptitude for innovation and
entrepreneurship, who will then get to work on GIC activities.
 The selected Fellow, in his/her entire tenure, would represent GIC in their college and would be
equipped with tools that would be aimed to bring about his/her personal development as well as
advancement of the entrepreneurial eco-system in his/her campus.
 After completion of 200 hours of active work in a period of three months, a certificate from GTU
Vice Chancellor on Fellowship/ Associateship and Internship will be awarded.
 For more information on Fellowship Program : http://gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in/fsp.php

10. “Design Thinking and
Design Driven Innovation
based approach to solve
Social Challenges
This workshop was organized on 16th &
17th May 2014 at GTU Innovation
Council
Student Start-up Support System Co-
Creation Center (S4-C3). More than one
hundred first year young enthusiasts
from 8 different colleges came together
at S4-C3 to solve social problems through
the concept of design thinking.
Read more about this event: Report

11. Flash Venture via Venture
Design Canvas
This is an ideation workshop,
which goes through stages of
problem identification,
problem solving - and
‘customer’ interviews,
prototype designing, and
design-re-design loop . The
flash venture workshop is
typically attended by
students who work in teams
to solve a problem, apply
design thinking
methodologies and learn
about creating a new
venture.

12. Mind to Market Workshop:
“Fuelpad”
“S4-Fuelpad Program”for
honing empathization-ideation-prototype
building skill of
students for developing
Innovation
Read more about this event: Report

13. PatentTrack
To promote innovative culture among
students in a fun learning way, GTU
Innovation Council (GIC) organized first
session of PatentTrack, a two days
competition for the Computer
Engineering & Information Technology
related branches of GTU. This
competition consisted of patent search
by students of given companies like
Google, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung, IBM,
Intel, Nokia and Cisco, Group discussion
among participants on current IPR topics
& presentation of analysed patents by
each group for particular company.

14. Crowdfunding Initiator
(CFI)
Read more about CFI
• Launch report long
• Final day report (with pics)
• Media coverage report
• Press Conference for Crowd
Funding Initiator (CFI) Success Story
and rewarding the teams
• Startup Saturday (10K Startups
Nasscom)

15. Gujarat
Shift from
Material intensive to Knowledge intensive

16. Contact Us
Address:
126, ACPC Building,
L.D. Engineering College Campus,
Navrangpura, Ahmedabad - 380 015
079-2630 0499, 079-2630 0599
gic@gtu.edu.in
www.gtuinnovationcouncil.ac.in
www.facebook.com/gtuinnovationcouncil