Vadodara Startup Fest is a platform to showcase innovative projects, ideas, products and start-ups by innovators. It provides an opportunity for innovators to interact with students, faculties, industry experts and investors. It brings out hidden creativity of students, enhances their skills and performance by focusing on overall innovative development. Innovation and creativity are two words heard frequently in today’s education system. Though, innovation has been defined differently by coveted noble laureates, we believe that an idea must be replicable and economically scalable. Innovation is a process, which evolves the life cycle of a product/ service, from ideation phase to commercialization for becoming useful to society.
Vadodara Startup Fest is being organized by Parul University to create awareness and the understanding of innovation, entrepreneurship and intellectual property rights (IPR) among the communities through creation of knowledge resources, pioneering new pedagogies and academic pilots for innovations/start-ups/IPR. It is an initiative that works towards fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in people of different domains such as engineering, pharmacy, management, computer applications etc. Its activities focus on creation and upliftment of innovative knowledge products, innovative systems and services, and resulting in greater good of the society and the nation.