Address by Honorable VC,

Prof. Akshai Aggarwal, Honorable VC GTU addressing the participants and sharing his vision of making GTU Innovation Council a truly India class innovation ecosystem. He shared that India needs a contextual innovation pedagogy which will suit to local needs with global standard and each GTU Innovation council efforts is trying to suffice the each single need of them. The innovation council will make outstanding contribution via the efforts of young technology minds including even the polytechnic community who are going to play critical role in this mission.He shared that the efforts to democratizing the innovation management process at GTU Innovation Council both in terms of scale and penetration has been unique in any place in the world. (GTU Innovation council has bagged World Education Forum award in 2011 for unique and significant effort in forging linkages between industries-academia and innovation.)

Padmashree Prof Anil K Gupta, IIM-Ahmedabad shared his insightful thoughts on this occasion and envisaged that the steps taken by GTU Innovation Council and Techpedia will set new standard of benchmarks in decade of innovation driven by young minds inside colleges. He shared that in many instances "The minds in the margin are not marginal minds" and the small town techies are at par innovative than that of at big cities and at established higher learning institutions. He shared that the faculties must take utmost care to pose enough challenges to the budding young minds even at polytechnic level to harness the best of their delivery capacity. He stressed on developing collaborative, frugal and co-creative lateral innovation development stages where young minds can contribute meaningfully to national challenges which are century old and hence by overcoming the patience over inertia in living with the problems kept unsolved indefinitely. He declared the Gandhain Engineering award which will be given away by Padmabhushan Dr. R.A.Mashelkar at IIM-Ahmedabad on 1st march 2011 to young technology students for developing frugal/gandhain innovations for masses.

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