NINETEENTH MEETING OF GOA STATE INNOVATION COUNCIL
Meeting Date: September 11, 2020
MINUTES OF THE NINETEENTH MEETING OF GOA STATE INNOVATION COUNCIL HELD ON 11-09-2020 AT 9.00 AM THROUGH ZOOM PLATFORM
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF GOA STATE INNOVATION COUNCIL HELD Â ON 11.09.2020 AT 9.00 A.M. THROUGH ZOOM PLATFORM
The following members were present at the meeting:
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1 |
SHRI. JOSE MANUEL NORONHA Chairman, Goa Public Service Commission, Panaji, Goa |
Chairman |
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2 |
DR. NEENA PANANDIKAR Principal, Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda, Goa |
Member |
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3 |
DR. MRIDULA GOEL Associate Professor, BITS Pilani K.K. Birla Goa Campus, Goa |
Member |
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4 |
DR. KAUSTUBH PRIOLKAR Professor, Goa University, Goa |
Member |
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5 |
SHRI. D. S. PRASHANT CEO, Forum for Innovation, Incubation, Research and Entrepreneurship, Fatorda, Goa |
Member |
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6 |
SHRI. PRADEEP MORAJKAR Member Secretary, Goa State Council for Science and Environment, Saligao, Goa |
Member |
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7 |
SHRI. LEVINSON MARTINS Director, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of Goa |
Member Secretary |
Dr. Vivek Kamat, Shri. Raghuveer Vernekar, Dr. Krupashankara MS &Shri Kunal Upadhyay could not attend the meeting and were granted leave of absence. Thereafter, the Chairman welcomed the members of the Goa State Innovation Council for the meeting.
- At the outset, the minutes of the meeting held on 15thJuly 2020 were read and confirmed.
- The Chairman informed the members that the Annual Report 2019-20 was released and the report received publicity in the local media.
- The proposal for conducting the various key initiatives of the council through online platforms was discussed and the respective budgets were approved.
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Sr No |
Key Initiatives |
Proposed Budget (INR in Lacs) |
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1 |
Sensitisation Workshop on Innovation & Creativity in schools (Total 50nos) |
5.0 |
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2 |
Bootcamps on innovation in Colleges (Total 30nos) |
7.5 |
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3 |
Women Centric Workshop in colleges (WCW) (Total 3nos) |
1.0 |
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4 |
Orientation Program on Innovation & Startups for school teachers  (Total 2nos) |
2.0 |
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5 |
Industry Institute Interaction for colleges  (Total 5 nos) |
2.0 |
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6 |
IPR Awareness programs (Total 4nos) |
1.0 |
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7 |
Faculty Development Programs (Total 2nos) |
4.0 |
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8 |
Risk Capital – VC Funding Sessions (Total 4nos) |
2.0 |
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9 |
GSInC’s Prototyping Grant Scheme (Total 20nos) |
8.0 |
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10 |
IPR Support - Provisional Patent Scheme (Total 30nos) |
3.0 |
The budgets for the following competitions were discussed and approved by the council:
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Sr No |
Key Initiatives |
Proposed Budget (INR in Lacs) |
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1 |
Goa’s Young Innovator’s Award 2020-21 |
1.5 |
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2 |
Final Year Student Project Competition 2020-21 |
2.0 |
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3 |
Goa Waste Management Hackathon 2020-21 |
1.0 |
- The council members discussed the proposal of Goa State Innovation Council’s Prototyping Grant Scheme under Virtual Innovation Register and it was approved with the objective to support prototyping and make it affordable for Students, Startups, Innovators, Research Faculty & Entrepreneurs who require the necessary support in converting Ideas into scalable products. It was also discussed and decided that the Scheme be designed for making available grants and this Scheme be placed before the Chairman for approval.
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Sr No |
Heads of Expenditure |
Proposed Budget (INR in Lacs) |
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1 |
Prototyping Grant (total 20 projects - Rs 20,000/project) |
4.0 |
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2 |
Training & Mentoring |
1.0 |
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3 |
Sessions Consumable, Handholding Support Cost |
2.0 |
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4 |
Promotional Expenses, Documentation, Publication & other |
1.0 |
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TOTAL |
8.0 |
The chairman suggested creating brochures for the schemes of the Prototyping grant & Provisional patent grant of Goa State Innovation Council mentioning the process of registration & other details in the form of a flow chart that could be uploaded on the website.
- The proposal to conduct IPR Session on the topic of Know your Patentability Potential was discussed with the objective to equip the students, teachers, and innovators with skills and knowledge that are essential for the technology landscape and patent search. The proposed date to conduct the session on 26.09.2020 was approved. The Council members discussed and approved the proposal of using the platform, Entrepedia for providing training on entrepreneurship free of cost for school students in the State of Goa.
- It was informed that a meeting was conducted with the Principals of Engineering colleges on 06.07.2020 through the zoom platform to discuss the feasibility of conducting the finals of the Final Year Student Project Competition 2019-20. Based on the deliberations in that meeting, it was proposed that the finalists be awarded certificates and mementos, and this proposal was discussed and approved by the council.
- The meeting ended with the vote of thanks.
