India Innovation Challenge 2016

This contest is jointly conducted by Texas Instruments, Inc. (TI) and Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) with support from the Department of Science and Technology (DST). The theme of the contest, in keeping with the start-up buoyancy, is “Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Nation building”. The contest is targeted specifically at encouraging the spirit of entrepreneurship amongst student engineers.
TI together with the DST and IIMB has designed the contest this year to attract the finest minds among student engineers with the best ideas that can quickly evolve into successful start-up companies. The objective is to provide them early stage access to business expertise and nurturing, which are important for a good start-up to go-to-market rapidly.  This year the contest aims to catalyze the Indian manufacturing ecosystem and strengthen the ‘Make in India’ initiative by enabling radical new innovations, trends and young engineering talent.

Important Dates

August 31, 2016	Submission of proposals
September 30, 2016	Announcement of short-list teams
January 31, 2017	Submission of Project Report and Video Demo
March 1, 2017	Announcement of Semi-finalists
March, 2017	Semifinals
April 15, 2017	Announcement of finalists
June, 2017	Finals