Innovation and Incubation Centre (IIC)

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Innovation and Incubation Centre (IIC)

• The Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University Innovation and Incubation Centre is an ideal Research and Development Innovation Ecosystem of the university which enable to nurture ideas through research developing promoting start up culture among young entrepreneurs.
• The main aim of the TNPESU-IIC is to ensure the collaboration with educational institutions, corporate, industries, knowledge hubs and other socio-economic related agencies.
• This liaison Centre based on the University Campus is empowered to spread across efficient human resources and affordable knowledge capital, technical, testing and training tools required for the other agencies of this society.
• Considering its developmental activities, this liaison Centre is visualized to serve the needs of this region to enhance its developmental capabilities in multiple ways.
• This Centre functions as a collective of brilliant minds drawn from the fields like physical education, yoga, sports sciences, sports coaching, sports management and technology.

AIM

• The Innovation and Incubation Centre (IIC) at TNPESU, nurtures a unique platform for Teachers, Scholars, Students, sports persons, Industrialists and Common man in and around the region, to imagine, test and cultivate the innovation ideas, and translate them into valuable products to serve the society.
• The Innovation and Incubation Centre (IIC) is to promote and research based ideas and entrepreneurship spirit among the students.

OBJECTIVES

• Establish the state of the art resource center with the necessary resources, knowledge and skills, that will enable it to act with speed, promote research and innovation and deal with contingent issues.
1. To initiate and develop innovative ideas
2. Empowering of students and youths to take up the opportunity.
3. Establish the institutional links to solve the local institutional problems.
4. Nurturing of start-ups, technology based occupational ventures.
5. Bridge between academic and institutional partners to overcome the unemployment issues.
6. Work as a team to create branding and positioning.
7. To promote research with contributions to society.
8. To Assist and monitor research activities with fellowships.
9. To encourage MoU and collaborative activities to promote research.
10. To conduct brainstorming sessions to create ideas among scholars and students.
11. To develop new strategies in coaching to improve the performance of the sports person.
12. To motivate faculties and scholars to publish quality papers in research journals and to participate in seminars and workshops.
13. To educate intellectual property rights and check plagiarism.
14. To increase the entrepreneurial skills of the students and other aspirants.
15. To provide and give accessibility for laboratories as per the needs of the research.
16. To provide coaching for competitive examinations and enhance career opportunities for the students.
17. Develop better Cognitive Ability amongst Students.
18. Provide common facilities such as infrastructure facilities and equipment to the incubates.
19. Arranging awareness programs for orientation of entrepreneurs.
20. Pomote UG/PG students to explore the opportunities created by these incubatees/start-ups.

FACILITIES AVAILABLE IN THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS

• Outdoor and Indoor Play fields
• Fitness Centre
• Sports Science Laboratories
• Sports Technology Laboratories
• Library and E Library
• ICT Laboratories
• Pedagogy Laboratories
• Yoga Centre
• Camping Centre
• Multi Media Class rooms
• Conference Halls

EXPERTISE AVAILABLE

• Incubation Centre drives scientific advances to help to develop new approaches, applications and products Expertise are available in the areas of Physical Education, Yoga, Exercise Physiology, Sports Nutrition, Sports Biomechanics, Sports Psychology & Sociology, Sports Coaching, sports management, Sports technology, Sports Documentation, Library Services, Sports Journalism, Sports Statistics, Sports Medicine and Physiotherapy.

STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF TNPESU-IIC

• Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University Innovation and Incubation Centre (TNPESU-IIC) is comprised of
1. Research Alliance
2. Departmental Research Committee
3. Doctoral Committees
4. Research Guides
5. Research Coordinator
6. RUSA Coordinator
7. IQAC Coordinator
8. Coordinator for Laboratories
9. Coordinator for Start-up and Incubation Centres
10. Coordinator for Competitive Examinations Cell
11. Coordinator for Students Welfare Services
12. Coordinator for Women Empowerment Centre
13. Coordinator for Value Added Course
14. Coordinator for Skill Development Centre
15. Coordinator for Library and Documentation Centre
16. Coordinator for Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism Check Cell
17. Coordinator for Counselling Cell
18. Coordinator for Cell for Career Guidance and
19. Coordinator for Outdoor and Indoor Play fields
20. Coordinator for Placement Cell
21. Director for Sports Centre for differently abled
22. Co-ordinator – High Performance Training and Coaching Centre.
23. Director of Leadership Camp.
24. Co-ordinator Management Information System.
25. Sports Scientific Support Centre.
• Research Alliance, headed by the Vice Chancellor of this university will be the apex body to promote research development, innovation eco system in this university.
• Departmental Research Committee shall tune up the ideas of the research aspirants and will provide necessary access to the research by conducting discussion for allotment of guides
• Doctoral Committees consists of experts takes the responsibilities of brain storming the research ideas of the scholar into a socially contributing research titles, may also monitor the progress of the scholar though out the programmes.
• Research Guides: Expert guidance for scholars is given by recognised guides of this university.
• Research Coordinators is functioning as hub of all research activities of this university
• All the research documents are evaluated by Urkundsoftware and the Doctoral thesis are evaluated with examiners from abroad, outside state and within the state.
• Placement cell is functioning as an important supporting centres of Incubation Centre to career advancement
• Play fields: shall be utilized by the research aspirants for developing new techniques; new protocols and strategies in training the sports persons; to increase the performance of the athletes.
• Laboratories: shall function as supporting sub centres of the incubation centre and open to all the research aspirants.
• Conferences, Seminars and Workshops are organised and attended by faculties and scholars to add new scientific knowledge.
• Multiple Open Discussion are organised to provide conducive research environment and open for such meaningful discussions
• RUSA Coordinator will encourage the aspirants with available facilities and funds
• IQAC Coordinator motivate the aspirants for quality efforts
• Coordinator for Laboratories will extent the facilities to the aspirins based of requirements through the concerned laboratory in-charges.
• Coordinator for Start-up and Incubation Centres may identify the talents among the students and scholars by organising various talent hunting and awareness programmes and they will create linkage between aspirants and institutions/ industries.
• Coordinator for Cell for Competitive Examinations will organise periodical class to promote and channelize the talents of aspirants.
• Coordinator for Students Welfare Services will explain and extent the welfare schemes to the students and scholars
• Coordinator for Women Empowerment Centre will ensure the proper training and facilities for women empowerment.
• Coordinator for Value Added Course may organise job oriented innovative value added courses for the students.
• Coordinator for Skill Development Centre may skill development courses for the students and aspirants
• Coordinator for Library Services and Documentation Centre will make help them in documentation and effective use of Library facilities to horn the skill of students and aspirants
• Coordinator for Intellectual Property Rights and Plagiarism Check Cell will periodically organise workshops / seminars/ symposia on IPR and genuineness in research writings.
• Coordinator for Counselling Cell will give the counselling for the needy to overcome their obstacles.
• Coordinator for Cell for Career Guidance will periodically organise workshops / seminars/ symposia on Career Opportunities
• Coordinator for Outdoor and Indoor Play fields will extent the facilities to the aspirins based of requirements through the concerned play field in-charges.
• Coordinator for Placement Cell may invite and organise campus interview and also prepare students for the campus interview.
• Director for sports the centre for differently abled co-ordinates, trains the Coaches and prepares the Para- Olympians, and Special Olympians with modern training schedule.
• High Performance training centre, to select talented sports persons to realise their maximum potential and to achieve laurels to the State and Nation.
• Director of the leadership training centre, is the one who prepares modules synergizing the future leaders as great citizens.
• Management Information System - Centre for Information, which is the nodal centre for managing the Technology, will act as Nodal Office to organize of implement Hackathon Projects collaborating intensively on software Projects.
• Sports Scientific Support Centre- A centre with well-established Research equipments helps to get Authentic data for analysis which can create a platform for Action research and Human Performance analysis.