In our Talk Series on ‘Innovative Ideas to Successful Products’, being organized by the DST funded Chitkara University NewGen IEDC and Technology Enabling Centre (TEC), on August 14 we had a privilege of listening to Prof. (Dr.) Praveen Kumar Khosla – Pro-VC (Research), Chitkara University, Punjab.

In his thought provoking and insightful talk, he highlighted how the innovation index of the country directly impacts its economic prosperity. Further, he gave deep insights with examples on how technology plays a significant role in driving growth for the companies. He inspired students to adopt certain behavioural traits for becoming good innovators. Further, he shared many real world problem statements that demand disruptive technological solutions. Finally, he shared some of his own innovations that he has carried out in his research career spanning over 4 decades, and highlighted how these innovations are creating a huge impact in society. By doing so, he motivated students to take-up problem statements that can have far and wide societal impact.

His talk was attended by over 100 students from different Engineering streams and Health Sciences department. Close to 15 faculty members from different departments as well as some start-ups also attended this session.

The main goal of this talk series is to inspire students and faculty members to take-up projects in such a manner that they can be converted into products and reach the right recipients/beneficiaries.

This talk series is also going to help the innovators in writing good project proposals that they can submit to NOVATE+ 2024 Hackathon, in order to get prototype development funding. Submissions to NOVATE+ 2024 are due on August 30.

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