Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Hyderabad Inaugurates ‘Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship’
K.T. Rama Rao
B.V.R. Mohan Reddy
Mr. B.V.R. Mohan Reddy mentioned that “Although we have a god given demographic advantage, there is a need to create 100 million jobs in 10 years. It’s often thought that large companies create jobs, butit is start-ups that contribute 60% of the jobs today. We are fortunately at a time when innovation is at its best. We have to make innovation a part of our education culture. IIT Hyderabad is today at the fore-front of the second generation IITs. With this Centre for Healthcare Entrepreneurship they bring technology into healthcare aiming to touch the lives of people.”
"Innovation and Entrepreneurship are the key drivers to India's economic development. It is imperative that we create an ecosystem in India for innovations and entrepreneurship. Starting the Center for Healthcare Entrepreneurship at IIT Hyderabad is a step in creating this ecosystem,” said Prof. Desai, Director IIT-Hyderabad
The Center will be sponsored by two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and IIT Bombay alum Raj Mashruwala and Avi Nash Manudhane. Commenting on the reason to choose IIT Hyderabad, Raj Mashruwala said "We were looking for an institute with strong commitment to societal needs, technological excellence and critical mass to create impact in healthcare technology. IIT Hyderabad with its nearly 2,000 students, 150+ faculty, proximity to high tech city showed deep understanding, passion and capability to bring about innovative products and solutions. Hyderabad has a full ecosystem from healthcare facility, engineering, entrepreneurial talent and infrastructure to operate the center." AvinashManudhane said “What really trumps aptitude is attitude and that’s exactly why we went with IIT-Hyderabad, for their passion.”The Center will operate with a physical office and research facilities within IIT Hyderabad’s campus. Apart from being an incubator, the center intends to have a complete program for identifying and grooming entrepreneurs, and mentoring them all the way to productization, scaling and eventual social adoption and impact. The Center will be headed by Prof. Renu John, Professor and Head of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad. Its objective is to catalyze ‘bio innovation’ with a unique focus of enabling creative solutions to pragmatically address some of the unmet healthcare needs of India’s less advantaged. The Center hopes to jump-start an effort that trains entrepreneurs to deliver a pipeline of cost-efficient solutions, which are increasingly ‘commercialized’. The Center will aim to develop ‘out-of-the-box’ solutions, nurture promising ideas through start-up phase, guide the best ones to access the full set of resources, financial, operational as well as organizational, to permit broad implementation.Explaining further the objective of the Center, Prof. Renu John said, "Even while wedded to science and technology, the new generation of researchers, puts a premium on solving problems that touch the lives of a billion people. This probably explains the huge wave of healthcare innovation that is rising in India and elsewhere... for us at the Center of Healthcare Entrepreneurship, universal healthcare is an article of faith, where even the last man in the queue has the wherewithal to access quality healthcare."
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