With funding in the tune of INR 30 Lacs, NOVATE+ 2021 aims to help MSME\u2019s collaborate with universities to seek solutions to the technical challenges they face.<\/p>\n
With the upsurge in technology & knowledge-centric enterprises and nation-wide focus on creating self-reliant (Atmanirbhar Bharat) solutions to technical challenges, the Indian entrepreneurial ecosystem has entered a new phase of growth.<\/p>\n
This phase has been dominated by MSME\u2019s solving real-world problems by offering novel solutions and by striving to up the mark for quality, and by the technical institutions working on the cutting -edge technologies.<\/p>\n
With its unwavering focus on nation-building through skill development, promoting an entrepreneurial mindset, and working closely with the industry – Chitkara University recently launched the 4th edition of its flagship-event NOVATE+ 2021. This edition aims to empower and help MSME\u2019s to collaborate with universities for technical problem-solving.<\/p>\n
NOVATE+ 2021 is driven by Chitkara University Research and Innovation Network<\/a> (CURIN) to promote applied research and is being anchored by Chitkara University NewGen IEDC, Chitkara University TEC and Institution\u2019s Innovation Council (IIC).<\/p>\n Through this competition, funding of INR 25 lacs will be awarded to up to 10 project proposals. Also, there will be a cash prize of INR 5 lacs for best project implementation. The last date for submitting project proposals is January 31, 2021.<\/p>\n NOVATE was conceptualized to channelize the knowledge and energy of youth towards becoming active partners in the economic development process, inculcate a culture of innovation-driven entrepreneurship and act as an institutional mechanism for providing various services on all aspects of enterprise building to the budding S&T entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n Novate in its current and earlier editions has thrived under the patronage and guidance of experts from the National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), Department of Science & Technology (DST), \u201cNew Generation Innovation & Entrepreneurship Development Centres (NewGen IEDCs)\u201d, Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad, along with FICCI and CURIN<\/a>.<\/p>\n During these years, NOVATE+ has emerged as the biggest and most vibrant platform in the region attracting the innovative project ideas from across the nation. Novate has witnessed hundreds of project ideas being showcased & evaluated and the best ones receiving huge project funding for developing Minimum Viable Products (MVPs).<\/p>\n Dr Madhu Chitkara, Pro-Chancellor, during the launch ceremony, said, \u201cI am proud to share that NOVATE+ in its 4th edition has now emerged as the biggest and most vibrant platform in the region where innovative project ideas from all over the country are showcased & evaluated and receive huge project funding for developing Minimum Viable Products (MVPs). The third edition of NOVATE+, organized last year on the theme of finding innovative solutions to COVID-19 challenges attracted over 300 entries from different parts of the country, with the funding in the tune of INR 1 Crore being sanctioned. This year\u2019s theme is of NOVATE+ is very timely and I wish to see that a large number of MSME and Academia teams will come forward to make our industry, academia and nation strong.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With funding in the tune of INR 30 Lacs, NOVATE+ 2021 aims…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,29,77],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[509],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-research","category-top-university"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":509,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"blogsadmin","display_name":"blogsadmin","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chitkarau-favicon.png","url2x":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Chitkarau-favicon.png"},"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chitkara.edu.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}