SSIP (Student Startup and Innovation Policy)

About SSIP

• The Student Startup Policy is a government initiative aimed at fostering entrepreneurship and supporting student startups. This policy recognizes the potential of students as budding entrepreneurs and provides them with a platform to transform their innovative ideas into successful businesses.

• Education Department, Government of Gujarat has been instrumental in creating a progressive policy focusing on student innovation and startups in the state.

Vision of SSIP

Empowering the young population of the State to unlock their creative potential through Start-up and Innovation so as to enable them to contribute for sustainable development and inclusive growth towards the realization of Aatmanirbhar Gujarat.

SSIP Beneficiaries

Students, researchers, faculty members, or start-ups (who are current students or passed out in the LAST FIVE ACADEMIC YEARS) have an innovative idea/prototype with a business potential and are interested in commercializing their idea/prototype.

Eligibility Criteria for Individual Beneficiaries :

Any person up to the age of 35 years, who is,

• • A school student of Foundational / Preparatory / Middle / Secondary level (Up to Class 12)

  • A Diploma / Vocational / Undergraduate / Postgraduate / Doctoral student or an alumna / alumnus

  • Any dropout from school / institute / university

The innovation of the beneficiary should contribute towards either development or improvement of any product or process or service in existing or new fields; or should be a scalable business model with a potential to generate employment or wealth creation.

Support to Individual Beneficiaries (SSIP 2.0):

IPR Support (SSIP 2.0):

Under the Policy, IPR strategies for academia with a special focus, provide various incentives including financial grants to support innovators. IPR supports provisioned under the Policy for all beneficiaries are listed in the Table below: