Functions and duties of Board of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages.

The Board of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages shall have the following functions and duties, namely :-

1. (a) to work on long-term policy and strategy for promotion of research culture in the University ;
2. (b) to advise and encourage the teachers to take up research in emerging areas at individual and group level ;
3. (c) to promote inter-disciplinary research programmes by coordinating amongst teachers and also to make and articulate policies for sharing of research and development infrastructure ;
4. (d) to encourage the University departments, centres, to hold research seminars in all disciplines for the research students ;
5. (e) to publish research journals, monographs for different disciplines ;
6. (f) to decide upon policy for maintenance of standards of research for Ph.D. degrees, in consonance with the norms of the University Grants Commission and other regulatory bodies ;
7. (g) to work on creation of research and development data base for work done in University departments and schools, in a stand-alone mode or as group activity or in collaboration with industries and other research and development laboratories ;
8. (h) to work out and initiate research in delivery of education, pedagogy of face-to-face and e-learning, impact of e-learning and virtual classrooms on learning and understanding of students, open distance or online learning and conventional education ;
   • (i) to make efforts and also assist the teachers of University schools, departments, centres to raise the funds for research activities ;
9. (j) to work out the budget for research activities of the University ;
10. (k) to mobilize money from the industry for enhancing research activities ;
11. (l) to identify problems and issues within the jurisdiction of the University and to take special initiative to address such issues through systematic research ;
12. (m) to work on long-term policies and strategies for creating synergy between researchers and industries resulting into promotion of knowledge and technology transfer and productive conversion of research ;
13. (n) to encourage industries to promote, adopt and participate in the basic and applied research projects ;
14. (o) to establish central research laboratories with the help of participation of national and international industries ;
15. (p) to undertake any other task as may be assigned by the University authorities so as to carry out objectives of the Board ;
16. (q) to liaise and establish with industry support incubation centre, research park at the University or its sub-campus ;
17. (r) to create synergy at policy and operative level mechanism for co-existence and cooperation between various research and development activities in University schools or departments, and various industries in the State and in other States ;
18. (s) to create synergy through operative policy mechanism and support system for incubation of good ideas such as product, process, service and innovation, into a scalable mode so as to establish small, medium and large industries ;
19. (t) to establish a system to support protection of intellectual property rights at national and global level ;
20. (u) to establish a system so as to guide and help young entrepreneurs in operational, legal, business model creation and financial support ;
    • (v) to prepare and implement annual programmes of activities of the Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages and review the same periodically ;
21. (w) to prepare the annual budget of the Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages ;
    • (x) to oversee and monitor the activities of the Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages ;
22. (y) to submit an annual report of working of Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages to the Board of Governance ;
23. (z) to undertake any other task as may be assigned by the University authorities to carry out the objectives of the Board of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages ;
24. (za) to put up to the Board of Governance for its approval the research and development, testing and consultancy criteria.