Swathi college of Pharmacy, Nellore established Institution innovation Council (IIC) to promote innovation -based ecosystem on the campus. IIC encourages creativity of students and faculties by supporting them to work with new ideas and transform them into prototypes. IIC also conducts various brainstorming sessions and national level competitions to create a vibrant environment of start-up and entrepreneurship. An important trend is that educational institutions in India are beginning to play a vital role in developing entrepreneurial competencies and include entrepreneurship as a core course in technical and business education. A Greater emphasis has been laid in recent years on benefits of entrepreneurial focused education at universities, instilling confidence in students to turn ideas into reality. ICP-IIC aims to boost the entire innovation value by amalgamating the knowledge and enriching experience from the researchers, academic and research institutes, startups and industry to foster an innovation culture at the institutional level ecosystem.

Major focus of IIC

• To create a vibrant local innovation ecosystem.
• Establish function Ecosystem for scouting Ideas and Pre-incubation of ideas.
• Start-up/ Entrepreneurship supporting Mechanism in HEIs.
• Prepare institute for ATAL Ranking of Institutions on Innovation Achievements Framework (ARIIA)
• Develop better cognitive ability amongst technology students.

Functions of IIC

• Promote innovation in the institution through innumerable modes leading to an innovation promotion eco-system in the campus.
• To conduct various innovation and entrepreneurship- related activities prescribed by Central MIC in time bounded fashion.
• Identify and reward innovations and share success stories.
• Organize periodic workshops/ seminars/interactions with entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and create a mentor pool for student innovators.
• Create an institutions innovation portal to highlight innovative projects carried out by institutions innovation portal to highlight innovation projects carried out by institutions faculty and students.
• Network with peers and national entrepreneurship development organizations.
• Organize Hackathons, idea competition, mini challenges etc., with the involvement of industry.