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=='''PROMOTING STUDENT INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP'''==

===''ED CELL''===

E-Week is being celebrated regularly to bring out the spirit of Entrepreneurship among students in the campus during the month of February with the support from National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN). As a part of E-Week several events are conducted for the benefit of the students such as quizzes, Stock Pulse, Expert Talks, Street Plays and Group Discussions etc. The winners of the event are given with prize money along with participation certificates.

Open House is one of the prolific ideas that VNR VJIET has come up with. It is an open arena for all the students to come up with their creative latent skills. Creativity involves two stages, i.e. conceptualization and actualization. The perfect blend of vision and blueprint of desired outcome leads to successful projects. It is being organized consecutively for the last 3 years, in which on an average 150 Innovative proto types were showcased. These prototypes are further scrutinized for nominating for incubation support.

This workshop is being conducted with support from ISB, Hyderabad through TEP. An expert team from ISB has trained so far 150 students. The students are formed into small groups and are encouraged to generate creative and innovative ideas by using this concept through brain storming.

This workshop is organized by forming students in to small groups by already chosen innovative idea during design thinking phase and training them through boot camps leading to preparation of Business plans and bringing out a minimum viable product. This idea of product will be pitched for seeking financial assistance from angle investors, venture capitalists and various funding institutions.

ED Cell of the institute is organizing World IP Day on April 26th for the last 2 years, with a motto of imparting knowledge on patenting to the students and faculty by conducting Quizzes, essay writing competition on Patent Searching and expert talks. Winners of the competition are given with prizes and participation certificates. Patent holders from the faculty and students are identified and honored with Mementos and Certificates.

[[File:EAC SESSION.png|thumb|EAC Session in progress Photo of Sri. Vikram Jit Misra Co Chairman, Covergetix India Ltd., Hyderabad]]

Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps (EAC’s) were conducted consecutively for 5 years with funding from NSTEDB worth Rs13,500/- per camp. Thus by sensitizing more than 500 students on Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship Awareness Drives were conducted periodically for the benefit of the students every year in association with IIT, Kharagpur and IIT, Mumbai. As a part of EAD several events are conducted like Expert Talks, Panel Discussions etc. With the help of EAD’s we have sensitized more than 1500 students on spirit of Entrepreneurship.

To know the art of selling of the products, an initiative called Campus Entrepreneur is proposed, wherein the students are encouraged to sell the products which are needed by

the student’s community on Cash & Carry basis excluding food items.

Vignana Jyothi Entrepreneurship training model has been developed beginning with ideation as first exercise. Students having ideas will be given training in a specific order till

prototype building and commercialization of Idea.

# Incubation

[[File:PANDA PUNNAIAH SQUARE - MY BIG IDEA COMP.png|thumb|PANDA PUNNAIAH SQUARE - The place where 'MY BIG IDEA COMPETITION' is held]]

* VNRVJIET ED Cell in association with student’s innovation center organizing My Big Idea Competition (MBIC) on a regular basis with a theme from 2013 on words.

Facilitate incubation of new enterprises with innovative technologies & cutting edge industry research by admitting them in the incubator. Provide them physical, technical and networking supports / services. Business incubation programs are designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services offered both by the incubator and through its network

We have state of the art building area spread at both the engineering college campus and management college campus within the same premise. This gives us an unique advantage in connecting technology and business within the same premise.

Vignana Jyothi Foundation for Entrepreneurial Excellence is a non profit organization registered as Section 8 company with ROC Hyderabad on 26 July 2017. And we are operating with a brand name of VJ-HUB.

*“Salcit Technologies” and "Solbots" are added to the list of startup’s at VJ-HUB in Sep 2017.

=='''ACTIVELY SUPPORTING THE UNIVERSITY TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FUNCTION'''==

'''''Seed Funding''''' <br>

VNR VJIET is inviting proposals for seed funding from students and faculty of the Institute. Estimated expense in INR is requested with respect to various aspects such as software, equipment, field work, travel, research assistant, paper publications , etc. before the funding is granted.

The Vignana Jyothi Technology Business Incubator is planned as an important resource in the state of A.P and Telangana a value added service provider to local innovators & entrepreneurs working for the common good of empowering entrepreneurs to create jobs. The work of TBI will be complementary to the other activities of Vignana Jyothi group

namely; entrepreneurship promotion, idea competition and research at VNRVJIET, center of excellence for MSME at VJIM, rural development at Dr D. Rama Naidu Vignana Jyothi

* [http://www.vnrvjiet.ac.in/VJ_Incubator_Policy.pdf VJTBI]

* [http://www.vnrvjiet.ac.in/VJ_IP_%20Policy.pdf Policy Document]

The research policy of VNR VJIET provides a broad framework to guide research, consultancy and innovation. It also guides the faculty and students towards eithical practices while conducting research and consultancy in the Institution.

* [http://www.vnrvjiet.ac.in/researchpolicy.php Research Policy]

=='''ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS'''==

===''NSS''===

National Service Scheme (NSS) adds to the beauty of our institute. Many programs and activities are held towards the development of the society where there is huge student participation. The NSS team conducts various activities along the year which include:

* Door to Door Health Survey

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