MRHD-Institutuion Innovation Cell (MHRD-IIC)
As per the initiative of Government of India and directives of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, MHRD’s Innovation Cell (MIC) to systematically foster the culture of Innovation amongst all Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and to promote the innovation and entrepreneurial skills among the students. The first council meeting of Institution’s Innovation Council (IIC), Raghavendra Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (RIPER) was called by IIC President Dr M. Vijaya Jyothi to discuss upon the formulation and function of IIC & shared roles and responsibility among newly joined council members as per the guidelines of MHRD’s Innovation cell.
Members of MHRD-IIC-RIPER
| S. No | Name of the Member | Member type (Teaching/Non – teaching/external expert.) | Key role /position assigned in IIC |
| 1. | Dr. V. Uma Maheshawara Rao | Teaching | Vice President, IPR activity Coordinator |
| 2. | Mr. A. Sudheer | Teaching | NIRF coordinator |
| 3. | Mr. S. Pavan Kumar | Teaching | Convener Member |
| 4. | Mr. R. Naveen | Teaching | Social media coordinator Member |
| 5. | Mr. Laxman | Teaching | Startup activity Coordinator Member |
| 6. | Ms. T. Reshma | Teaching | Internship activity Coordinator Member |
| 7. | Ms. B. Charitha | Teaching | Member |
| 8. | Dr. M.S. Shiva Kiran | External Expert | Incubation manager |
Activities of MHRD-IIC-RIPER
| S.No | Programme Title | Date |
| 2018 | -2019 | |
| 1 | Workshop on IPR for Students and Faculty Members | |
| 2 | Offline workshop on IPR for Students and Faculty Members | |
| 3 | Idea Competition | |
| 4 | Workshop on Cognitive Skills, Design Thinking and Critical Thinking using local resource persons | |
| 2019 | -2020 | |
| 1 | Innovation Day | 15-10-2019 |
| 2 | Entrepreneurship Awareness Camp | 17-10-2019 |
| 3 | Visit to Atal Incubation Center | 24-12-2019 |
| 4 | Design Thinking and Innovation | 04-03-2020 |
| 5 | Ideathon: Innovation challenge against COVID-19 | 22-04-2020 |
| 6 | Entrepreneurship and start up | 05-06-2020 |
| 2020 | -2021 | |
| 1 | National webinar on self exploration towards innovation and entrepreneurship | 31-10-2020 |
| 2 | My story-Motivational session by successful entrepreneur/startup founder | 02-11-2020 |
| 3 | Workshop on Entrepreneurship and innovation as career opportunity | 02-11-2020 |
| 4 | Orientation session on National Education Policy-Innovation and Entrepreneurship | 10-12-2020 |
| 5 | orientation session for all students and faculties of institute by innovation ambassador | 12-12-2020 |
| 6 | Call for paper writing and research report on innovation | 23-12-2020 |
| 7 | orientation session on National Innovation Start Up Policy | 24-12-2020 |
| 8 | Three days workshop on ADMET and Molecular Docking studies | 22-01-2021 |
| 9 | Business/Startup Model Exhibition | 30-01-2021 |
| 10 | Workshop on Design Thinking and Innovation | 01-02-2021 |
2021-22
| S. No | Title | Date |
| 01 | National Education Day 2021 | 11/11/2021 |
| 02 | Workshop on entrepreneurship Skills, Attitude & Behaviour development | 12/11/2021
13/11/2021 |
| 03 | Field Study on Societal Problems-Innovative solution Thinking | 12/11/2021 |
| 04 | Executing the technology transfer project through virtual enterprises | 17/11/2021 |
| 05 | My story- motivation session by successful Entrepreneur/Start up founder | 22/01/2022 |
| 06 | Quiz on general science | 28/01/2022 |
| 07 | Achieving problem –solution fit &production –Market fit | 28/02/2022 |
| 08 | My story –motivational session by successful innovators | 02/03/2022 |
| 09 | Idea hackathon | 10/03/2022 |
| 10 | World Health Day Celebrations | 07/04/2022 |
| 11 | Best Innovation Idea Poster Competition | 08/04/2022 |
| 12 | Intellectual Property Rights Day Celebrations | 26/04/2022 |
| 13 | World Environment Day Celebrations | 05/06/2022 |
| 14 | Impact Lecture Series Phase-II Session-I | 29/06/2022 |
| 15 | A Session on Angel investment/Venture capital funding opportunities for early-stage Entrepreneurs | 19/07/2022 |
| 16 | Developing an online repository of Business plan prototypes developed and way forward plan | 22/07/2022 |
| 17 | Workshop on IPR and IP Management | 3/07/2022 |
| 18 | Filed/Exposure Visit to Incubation Unit Patent Facilitation Centre/Technology Transfer Centre | 13/08/2022
14/08/2022 |
| 19 | A Session on Accelerators/Incubation Opportunities for students and Faculties-Early-stage Entrepreneurs | 17/08/2022 |
| 20 | World Entrepreneurs Day | 22/08/2022 |
| 21 | Discussion with Innovation and Start-up Ecosystem Enables from the region | 24/08/2022 |