The Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) is a
Government of India
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funded institute established under the aegis of the
University of Delhi
Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate university, collegiate Central university (India), central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and ...
. It has been founded in 2011 and introduced Innovation as a credit based course for the first time in
India
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.
Objectives
University of Delhi has set up Cluster Innovation Centre (CIC) with the objective of fostering an ecosystem of innovation and connecting research with application for the benefit of society. The CIC aims to support application oriented research to solve real world problems by developing ideas into innovative applications that can be commercialized successfully. The CIC will focus on developing affordable innovations that reach a large number of people and at the same time are commercially viable to be sustainable and relevant.
The main objectives of the Cluster Innovation Centre are:
* Encourage an environment of innovation in the system
* Develop innovative degree programs.
* Educate and sensitize students, teachers by launching schemes on innovation programmes in colleges
* Select ideas with potential by conducting training/orientation programmes/modules on innovation and researches
* Develop ideas into innovative applications
* Facilitate collaborations and partnerships with industry, academia and other stakeholders
* Commercialize innovations and take them to the end users
* Develop meaningful linkage with various segments of society.
References
* DU launches CIC, Education Time
* DU launches CIC,MSM New
* Initiative of National Innovation Counci
*Office of the Advisor to Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure & Innovations
* Prime Minister's speech on CIC
*CSIR Linkag
*DRDO, Ministry of Defence and CIC MO
*QS Ranking
*https://web.archive.org/web/20120425231602/http://innovationcouncil.gov.in/
*http://iii.gov.in/.../innovation/University_Innovation_Cluster.pdf
*http://www.siid.org.in/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=164:india-to-set-up-cluster-innovation-centres&catid=41:news{{dead link, date=August 2017 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes
*http://www.bhu.ac.in/notice/jul15/dic/cnmhrd.pdf
Delhi University
Innovation in India