BNCA Innovation and Incubation Centre ‘Shodh’

Faculty and Students of Maharshi Karve Stree Shikshan Samstha’s Dr B N College of Architecture for Women, Pune , referred as ‘ The Institute’ are involved in various Research , Innovation and Development activities. Many of these activities further give rise to the Intellectual Property (IP) in the form of Patents, Copyrights, Designs, devices / instruments, software , other innovations and inventions.

The Centre has worked out a Document that provides the guidelines and states the policies of the Institute with respect to Disclosure, Protection , Ownership and Licensing of Intellectual Property generated with or without any external funding. It also provides the guidelines relating to the procedure of filing patent applications via Dr B N College of Architecture for Women, Pune, IP Cell .

IP Cell is formed under larger umbrella of Institute’s Innovation Ecosystem.

Institute’s Innovation Council (IIC): Institute’s Innovation council is formed as per the directives of (MoE) Ministry of Education’s Innovation Council (MIC). It is an activity center or nodal agency formed to generate awareness, conduct Innovation activities, conduct research, seek collaborations and funding, seek internships, lead to innovation and startups.

A) Purpose

The purpose of the Centre is to –

• Create an innovation culture which will stimulate the creation and development of Intellectual Property at the institute.
• Facilitate and safe guard research and development activities in the areas of Architecture and the allied, Technology and Humanities.
• Secure the legal interests of students, faculty and the Institute and to avoid as far as possible conflict of opposing interests.
• State the policies of the Institute with respect to Disclosure, Protection , Ownership and Commercialization of Intellectual Property generated with or without any external funding.
• Provide the procedures and guidelines for Securing the Intellectual Property Rights through filing of necessary applications such as Patents, Industrial Designs, Trademarks, Copyright and other available mechanisms

B) Objectives

The Centre aims to –

•  Make the Institute a prime academic Research and Innovation Institution enabling it to make use of developed IP for the maximum possible benefit of the creators as well as the Institute.
•  Protect Intellectual Property and make it available to industry and others while providing recognition to its faculty / students and other individual inventors.
•  Put forth a transparent administration system for the ownership control as well as the assignment of Intellectual Properties and sharing of the revenues generated by the intellectual properties generated and owned by the Institute.
• Frame standards for do’s and don’ts for the Institute and creators of Intellectual Property relating to Innovation, Inventions, Discoveries and original works originating from the Institute.
• Assisting the Institute with respect to Industry collaboration and funding or securing funded projects and related arrangements with a focus on Intellectual Property Right

Meetings of the Centre and IP Cell

• Quarterly Meetings will be held periodically with the faculty to discuss new ideas and innovations generated by the faculty in the course of the teaching-learning process.
• Faculty members who feel that any of their ideas/innovations can be considered for IPR may request for a meeting to be called.