About Us
Institute Innovation Council (IIC) of IIT Dharwad is established to conduct various innovation and entrepreneurship related activities, and to systematically foster the culture of innovation in IIT Dharwad. Towards this aim it organises workshops, hackathons, seminars and arranges interactions with entrepreneurs, investors and professionals. It also works towards creation of a mentor pool for student innovators and envisages to develop a network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organisations. The council presently consists of 41 student members, headed by Prof. Raj Hirwani as the President, with Prof. Amar Gaonkar being the Convener.
Our Goals
Hold activities
To conduct various innovation and entrepreneurship-related activities.
Promote Innovation
Identify and reward innovations and share success stories
Organize workshops
Organize periodic workshops, seminars, interactions with entrepreneurs, investors and professionals
Create Mentor Pool
Creation of a mentor pool for student innovators
Build Network
Develop a network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations
Organize Hackathons
Organize Hackathons, Idea Competitions and Mini-Challenges with the involvement of industries
Events & Initiatives
E-Summit'24
IIT Dharwad’s entrepreneurial fest, featuring renowned personalities who will share their wisdom and expertise, empowering students to foster and nurture their creative ideas, innovations, and unique talents.
Headstart
The aim of this event is to bring together some of the best innovators and entrepreneurs of our country for a symposium on the topic ‘Innovation & Entrepreneurship'
E-Summit'23
IIT Dharwad’s entrepreneurial fest, featuring renowned personalities who will share their wisdom and expertise, empowering students to foster and nurture their creative ideas, innovations, and unique talents.
E-Summit'22
IIT Dharwad’s entrepreneurial fest, featuring well-known personalities who will provide an insight into many things, empowering students to foster and nurture their creative ideas, innovations, and unique talents.
Avadhān
A case competition to encourage entrepreneurial thinking
E-Summit'21
IIT Dharwad’s very first entrepreneurial fest, featuring well-known personalities who will provide an insight into many things, empowering students to foster and nurture their creative ideas, innovations, and unique talents.
StartUpDrafts
A newsletter that explains a new startup concept every other week, followed by a curated feed of startup news, profiles and interviews.
IIC Talk Series 2021
An opportunity to enhance your knowledge on Entrepreneurship
Avadhān
A case competition to encourage entrepreneurial thinking
Technostrophe
A quiz competition on the topics of technology, innovation and entrepreneurship
IIC Talk Series
A series consisting of three talks by eminent intellectual property practitioners
Headstart
The aim of this event is to bring together some of the best innovators and entrepreneurs of our country for a symposium on the topic ‘Innovation & Entrepreneurship'
Talk on Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Success and Failure Stories
Mr. Sunil Chakrapani has worked with Fortune 500 clients like Google, Savinetwork, including US Defence. He has a domain expertise in Supply Chain Management and RFID technologies. ...He has 15 years of entrepreneurship experience and had built businesses in four countries across West Africa. He is also founder and director of Century Stars, which generated revenues of approximately $65-$70 million in 8 years and today this company is over a $100 million. Currently, the speaker is Vice President at Deshpande Foundation, heading CSR and Relationships department.
Talk on Finding Funding
Bootstrapping, Crowdfunding Angel, Investing, Bank Loans, Competition, and Awards Pitching for funding What investors look for in start-ups? Jio Initiatives
Session on Technology Venture Creation
How to start a Start-Up?
How to scale-up?
Role of Incubators Accelerators and associated aspects
Talk on Intellectual Property for Startups by Dr. Raj Hirwani
Dr. Raj Hirwani has nearly 40 years of techno-commercial experience in Research and Industry.His focus is on IP Management in Academic and Publicly funded R&D Institutions. ... Till recently he was Head of Intellectual Property Directorate in CSIR and Director of CSIR’s Unit for Research and Development of Information Products (URDIP) at Pune.
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IIT Dharwad, Permanent Campus, Chikka Malligwad, Dharwad Karnataka 580007, India