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We Are DESIC

DESIC, the Design Innovation Centre, at the Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.

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Workshop
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Patents
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Interns
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PhD Students
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Masters Students

Indian Innovations Meet 2024

Indian Innovations Meet aims to showcase indigenous and unique design innovations from Indian firms in India to cater to the Indian market. The event will have presentations from industry leaders on innovations by their organisations and how it added value to their customers and businesses.

The innovations were invited from the categories below:

  • PRODUCT INNOVATION
  • PROCESS INNOVATION
  • SERVICE INNOVATION
  • BUSINESS MODEL INNOVATION

Join us to attend to presentations from:

  • Hindustan Unilever Ltd
  • Tata Consultancy Services Ltd
  • Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd. (Amul Coop)
  • Tata Chemicals Limited

The presentations were selected from the submissions we received from the call for innovations

The sectors considered were:

  • Aerospace and Defence
  • Automotive Manufacturing and Automotive Suppliers
  • Manufacturing Engineering and Machinery (including High-Tech)
  • Consumer Electronics
  • Chemicals (including Specialty & Petrochemicals)
  • Electrical Engineering and Electronics incl. Industrial Electronics Retail
  • Energy and Resources
  • Financial Institutions and Insurance Utilities (electricity, gas, water etc.)
  • Food and Beverage (excluding product innovation in F&B)
  • Healthcare and Healthcare providers
  • Logistics and Services
  • Medical Technology and Medical Devices
  • Pharmaceuticals and Biopharmaceuticals
  • Public Services (Upstream)
  • Telecommunications, IT/Software and Media (TIME industries)
  • Transport and Travel
  • White Goods (Household appliances — refrigerator, stove, washing machine, etc.)

Entries underwent a two-stage review process. Please find more information about our submission process and selection criteria in the brochure. The selected articles and videos of presentations will be published in National Design Innovation Network, an online platform connecting the design community of India (design students, trainers, the Design Innovation Centres) in its exclusive section on Indian Design Anthologies. Indian Design Anthologies aims to turn to an innovation corpus of design/innovation/business case studies for design students.

Please find more information and submission guidelines in the brochure.

Important dates

  • Reporting Innovations : 31 October 2023
  • Communicating shortlisted innovations : 15 November 2023
  • Submission of full article : 10 January 2024
  • Communicating review comments : 31 January 2024
  • Registration deadline : 7 February 2024
  • Innovation Meet : 28 February 2024

Registration Details

Registration Fee Indian and International firms
INR 5,000/- 1 presenter
INR 5,000/- 1 participant from an organisation
INR 12,000/- 3 participants from the same organisation

Registration Steps:

Step 1: Register at the payment window using the online payment modes available: Payment Window

Step 2: Provide details of registrants and payment at the form here to complete the registration : Registrant Information Form

Programme Schedule

08:30 - 09:00 Tea & Refreshments
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome Address. Prof Gurumoorthy, Coordinator, National Design Innovation Network
09:15 - 10:00 Keynote 1. Building Trust Through Innovation - The Sumeet Mixie Journey. Mr. Ronnie Dayal, Sumeet family and Delta Street Holdings Inc
10:00 - 10:45 Keynote 2. What’s new about innovation? Dr. Srikanth Kannapan , Advisor, FSID , IISc
10:45 - 13:15 Five industry presentations on Indian Innovations (Hindustan Unilever Ltd; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd; Amul Coop; Tata Chemicals Limited)
13:15 - 13:25 Concluding Remarks
13:25 - 14:30 Networking & Lunch

A detailed programme can be viewed here

For queries, please write to contact@ndin.in

COVID-19 Products

The below products are developed by the MHRD sponsored Design Innovation Centre @IISc and Society for Innovation and Development to enable India fight against COVID-19

UV-based PPE disinfecting case

UV-based Floor cleeaning device

UV-based PPE disinfecting box

PPE Coverall Design

PPE Head and Neck Cover

Bag Valve Mask Automator
(First Prize Winning Entry - NDIN Innovation Challenge for COVID-19)

Reusable Personal Protective Full- Face Shield for Health Workers.
(Second Prize Winning Entry- NDIN Innovation Challenge for COVID 19)

Reusable N95 mask.
(Honourable Mention Winning Entry- NDIN Innovation Challenge for COVID 19

What We Do

The Design Innovation Centre at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore addresses the bottle-necks in design education through:

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ACTIVITIES



Training The Trainers

Produce faculty and practitioners in Design

-> PhD (6 per year) and Masters (25 per year) in Design

-> 1 Summer school & 2 Design Workshops for design faculty from other institutions each year (20 faculty & 10 students each; up to 5 industry participants)



Design Education

Create and develop content for teaching and learning design on-site and on-line

- Content for teaching/learning Design on-line

- Courses from the M.Des curriculum will be made available on-line by the end of three years



Design Incubation

Create eco-system for incubating indigenous products into marketplace through licensing and startups

- Products ready for translation to the market through licensing or start-ups (2 per year)

- Facility and framework for full time students as well as teachers from other institutions to participate in new product development projects.

Courses

Man-Machine Interaction

Bio Medical Devices

Intelligent User Interface

Embodiment Design

New Product Development : Concepts and Tools

New Product Development : Strategy and Practice

Summer Courses

Product Design - May 2014

Design Creativity - January 2015

Product Design - June 2015

Product Design - February 2016 (at NIT Calicut)

Product Design - July 2016 Participants : 14 Faculty with 7 from the spoke institutions

Entrepreneurs in Residence - Product Incubation

Ten project teams have been supported since October 2014 under the Entrepreneurs in Residence program.

Sugar Cane Harvester

Cotton Harvester

Multi-utility Agri Vehicle

Portable Water Purifier

Solar Indoor Lighting

Micro Newton Sensor

Emitter for Fertigation

Cashew fruit Juice Extractor

Critical-Care Training Simulator

Smart Sleep System

Wire Stripping Device

Infusion Monitoring Device

Sleep Sense

Endoscopy Training Haptic Simulator

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Raghu Menon

Vinay Reddy, Nithin Gupta

Ashish Tulkar

Vinayak Kumar

Anjana V Murthy; Atlin Roy George

Dr. Santosh Bhargav D B

Dinesh

Tushar Puwar


Pavan Sridharan

Yogesh Kumar Baghel

Manish Arora

Manish Arora

Yogesh Kumar Baghel

Raghu Menon, Shanthanu Chakavarthy, Nitin Shivshankar

Kithir Kabeeb Nawaz

Workshops

Workshops For Research Scholars And Students in Design

  • Product Design, May 2014; 23 Faculty
  • Doctoral Workshop in Design, 22-27 June 2014; 23
  • Special Session on DIC by IISC and Spokes, 8 January 2015; 50 Participants
  • The International Workshop on Cultures of Creativity and Innovation in Design, 19-20 January 2015; 60 Paritcipants
  • Doctoral Workshop in Design, January 2015; 42 Students
  • Design Creativity, January 2015; 20 Faculty
  • Doctoral Workshop in Design, January 2015; 42 Students
  • DIC Workshop, May 2015; 50 Participants
  • Whole system Design, February 2015; 22 Students
  • Research into Design, June 2015; 25 Students
  • Product Design, June 2015; 25 Faculty
  • DIC Workshop for Design Faculty and Researchers, May 2015 50 participants
  • A Hackathon in Embedded Devices, July 2015; 25 Students
  • Product Design & Innovation Workshop, 27-28 February 2016, 200 participants

  • Product Design, February 2016; 30 Faculty
  • Product Design, July 2016; 14 Faculty 7 from the spoke intitutions
  • Creative Engineering Design Workshop, July 2016; 40 Participants
  • DCODE: The CII-IISc Design Workshop on New Product Development, July 2016; 40 Participants
  • Two week workshop on products with embedded electronics, August 2016; 25 Participants
  • MeDHa'16, 3-6 November 2016; 60 participants
  • Workshop on Deboxing Design Thinking for Children - I , July 2017, 50 Students
  • Workshop on Deboxing Design Thinking for Children - II, July 2017, 36 Students

  • Reimagine Waste 2-Hacking for a Clean nation 2018; Theme : Street Food Vendors, 11-17 August 2017; 50 participants

  • Design Thinking 101 – Needs & Inspirations, October 2017, 135 participants
  • SME-Design students Workshop, November 2017, 30 participants
  • Time2Leap Summit 2017; 22 participants
  • Hackathons – Reimagining Waste, Medical Devices
  • Manufacturing Excellence Program (MxP) for MSMEs Driven by Design.
  • Time2Leap Summit 2018; 35 participants

  • ReimagineWaste 3, 1-2 September 2018, 8-9 September 2018; 50 participants
  • Science Experiment Demonstration for Chetana Programme for Girl Students From Karnataka, 29 October 2018; 30 participants
  • Design Innovation Workshop & Interface DIWI 2018, 19-23 November 2018, 200 participants
  • Product Design & Innovation Workshop 2019, 21-25 January 2019, 2000 participants
  • Science Experiment Demosrations for IISc Open Day, 22 March 2019; 3000 approx. Kids
  • Augmented Reality Workshop for High School Students, 30 May-2April 2019; 31 participants
  • Design for Children Workshop, 26 June 2019; 31 participants
  • ReimagineHealth 2019; Hacking for Clean Nation 2019; Theme : Water and Waste Livelihood, 6-7 July 2019, 13-14 July 2019; 50 participants
  • Design Workshoop for National Innovation Doundation-MANAK Fellowship National Level Winners, 8-12 July 2019; 47 participants
  • Augmented Reality Workshop for High School Students, 10 September 2019; 42 participants
  • Virtual Reality Workshop for High School Students, 2-5 October 2019; 10 participants
  • Build the STEM Lab Workshop for Rural School Teachers, 30 November 2019; 12 participants
  • Augmented Reality Workshop for High School Students, 3 January 2020; 24 Students
  • Time2Leap Summit 2020, Upcoming; 55 participants

Recent Works

We love what we do, check out some of our latest works

Our Spokes

DESIC partners with 4 spoke institutions

"As I attended DIC WS, I got interested in DIC activities. I understand that it is part of National Project for design education…. I am a member of advisory team for MEXT, Japanese Ministry of Education and in addition to that, Japan is looking for another framework for design education. Starting from local needs and from grassroots is very important. I believe we have to introduce some of your ideas".

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Prof. S. Fukuda Keio University, Japan

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Contact Info

CO-ORDINATOR

Prof. B. Gurumoorthy

Email

bgm@iisc.ac.in

Address

2nd Floor CPDM Annexe
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
India
Phone: (+91) 80 2293 2978