The “National Innovation and Start-up Policy 2019” for students and faculty in HEIs was launched on 11th September 2019 at AICTE, New Delhi. NISP as a guiding framework will enable to institutes to actively engage students, faculties and staff in innovation and entrepreneurship related activities. This NISP framework which will facilitate in bringing uniformity across HEIs in term of Intellectual property, Ownership management, Technology licensing and Institutional start-up policy, thus enabling creation of robust innovation and start-up ecosystem across all HEIs.

In continuation with the initiatives taken by the Ministry of Education (MoE), Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) and guidelines received from the AICTE’s National Innovation Start-up policy team, ABMSP’s Anantrao Pawar College of Engineering and Research, Pune as one of the recognized technical education institute, would like to be part of this initiative. As per the instructions given by the MoE’s Innovation cell, NISP implementation committee is constituted at APCOER to frame, implement, amend and monitor Institutional Innovation Entrepreneurship and Start-up Policy. After receiving approval from Governing body and Institutional Innovation Council of  APCOER, would like to publish Institutional Innovation and start-up policy Document to promote the innovative and entrepreneurial ecosystem and help in shifting the mind sets from job seekers to job providers among young students.