BIG at SIIC IIT Kanpur | Win up to ₹ 50 Lakhs grant-in-aid
Deadline is 5.30 PM, 15th February 2022
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur is a public technical university located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India under the Institutes of Technology Act.
Biotechnology ignition Grant (BIG) is a program funded by Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC). It supports young startups and entrepreneurial individuals at their early stage of ideation with convincing preliminary data to refine it further into proof of concept. BIG promotes fostering, up scaling, and validation of ideas with comercialisation potential. It also encourages researchers to broaden the market reach of technology through startups.
BIG offers its innovative creators a royalty-based fund up to RS. 50 Lakhs for Prototype Development and Validation in following domains: Med-Tech devices and Diagonostics, AI/ML Big Data Analytics, Veterinary Sciences, Industrial Biotechnology, AgriTech, BioPharma, Environmental Sciences, Clean Energy. (intsert pictures of each domains).
Focus Domains
Eligibility
- Any graduate, researcher, innovator or startup (<5 years old w.e.f 1st Aug 2021 and having >51% shares with Indian citizens working in the biotechnology sector).
- Senior research fellows/scholars having finished/finishing in <6 months PhD/Post-Doc.
- Final semester students /recently graduated alumni of UG & PG in any discipline
- Permanent/contractual, technical staff.
- Independent innovators, scientists, and prospective entrepreneurs (BBA/MBA etc. graduates) across science, engineering, management, and technology schools/departments.
Offerings
Application Process
