Prologue

As per the provisions of Maharashtra Public Universities Act’2016, the Director of Innovation, Incubation and Linkages is member-secretary to the Board of National and International Linkages, Board of Innovation, Incubation and Enterprise and Board of Research. Further as per the Uniform Statute No 4 of 2019, the Director, I. I. & L. is also responsible for scheduling and conducting meetings of the Board of Deans and thereafter ensuring action taken on the decisions so made.

As per the specified provisions of Maharashtra Public Universities Act’2016 under section 51(1), Board of National and International Linkages is expected to cultivate, establish, maintain and strengthen the link of the university with premier national and international universities and institutions.

As per the specified provisions of Maharashtra Public Universities Act’2016 under section 53(1), Board of Innovation, Incubation and Enterprise is responsible for creation and cultivation of an enabling environment to propagate the concept of innovation and to convert the innovative ideas into working models through a process of incubation which shall finally lead to the creation of enterprise.

As per the specified provisions of Maharashtra Public Universities Act’2016 under section 59(1), Board of Research is expected to cultivate, promote and strengthen research activities and also to plan, co-ordinate, supervise and to raise finances for research activities in university departments, colleges and recognized institutions.

As per the specified provisions of Maharashtra Public Universities Act’2016 under section 36(1), Board of Deans is expected to co-ordinate, oversee, implement and to supervise the academic activities of the university. It shall be responsible to plan the development of the university in academics, research and development, entrepreneurship, intellectual property rights, incubation of industries and linkages with industries for integrated planning. It shall also plan, monitor, guide and coordinate under-graduate and post-graduate academic programmes and development of affiliated colleges. The Director, I. I. & L. is to prepare the minutes of the meeting and shall proceed with the implementation of the resolutions of the Board of Deans.