Overview
- Showcases entrepreneurial ecosystems within premier institutions of higher learning, especially engineering
- Focuses on innovation within engineering research institutes
- Covers case studies of successful lab to market endeavours
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: IITK Directions (IITKD, volume 1)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book focuses on promoting entrepreneurial ecosystems within universities and educational institutes. It especially emphasizes the thriving systems and practices existing within the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). It discusses cases and successes of the SIDBI Incubation and Innovation Centre in the Institute. This edited volume highlights the vision of IITK and describes a few of the major achievements of the past few years. It especially showcases the requirements and challenges of creating, sustaining, and boosting such entrepreneurial ecosystems and incubation centres. The contents of this book will be useful to researchers, administrators, and corporate collaborators working in the area of monetizing technology coming from educational institutions by converting it to successful products and business ideas.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Prof. Sameer Khandekar is affiliated to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, since September 2004. He completed Masters Degree from IIT Kanpur, India (1998-2000) in fluid-thermal engineering and subsequently earned doctoral degree from University of Stuttgart, Germany (2000-2004). Earlier, after his undergraduate studies in Mechanical Engineering from Government Engineering College, Jabalpur (MP), he worked as a marine power plant engineer on board sea-going merchant vessels for four years (1994-1998). He is a recipient of P. K. Kelkar Research Fellowship (IIT Kanpur; 2008-2011)), DAAD Fellowship (2011), Prof. K. N. Seetharamu Award (Indian Society of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2010), George Grover Medal (International Heat Pipe Committee, 2007) and Young Scientist Award (Department of Atomic Energy, India, 2005). He is a member of the International Heat Pipe Committee and editorial board member of two international journals on science and technology of heat pipes. He has served as academic senate member of one central and one state funded autonomous engineering institutes. He has also served as an invited faculty member at four international universities at Germany, France, Brazil and Thailand. He has over forty-five research publications in international journals, over sixty publications/presentations in international conferences, including 15 Keynote lectures/Invited Talks and two books to his credit. He is presently serving as the Associate Dean (Innovation and Incubation) of IIT Kanpur (2015 - ongoing). His current research interests are in experimental microscale phase-change thermo-fluidic systems, boiling and condensation, heat pipes and energy systems.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship
Book Subtitle: Case Studies from IIT Kanpur
Editors: B. V. Phani, Sameer Khandekar
Series Title: IITK Directions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3334-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-3333-9Published: 18 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9845-1Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-3334-6Published: 07 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2509-6591
Series E-ISSN: 2509-6605
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 71
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial and Production Engineering, Innovation/Technology Management, Engineering/Technology Education, Engineering Design, Entrepreneurship