Nominations open for YUKTI Innovation Challenge 2025 (India)

YUKTI Innovation Challenge 2025 (YIC 2025) is 4th edition of the YIC provides a platform for eligible innovators with technology-based solutions at TRL 4 and above (as registered in the YUKTI Innovation Repository of IIC institutions).

Selected innovation teams will undergo a 360-degree comprehensive learning process involving experiential learning, mentoring, and evaluation to achieve problem-solution fit, product-market fit, and business model fit. The program also offers connections to investors, incubation support, and financial assistance opportunities from AICTE and MIC to transform innovations into successful start-ups.

Innovation Nomination Guidelines for IIC Institutes

• Active Repository Requirement: Each IIC Institute must have an active YUKTI Innovation Repository linked to its IIC login account.
• Ongoing Scouting and Verification: Institutes should continuously enrich their Repository by scouting and verifying PoCs, prototypes, and startups from students, alumni, and faculty. The institute-specific YIR link should be periodically shared with all members for submissions.
• Verification Status: Only submissions that achieve a ‘Recommended’ status from institute-assigned verifiers are eligible for nomination to YIC 2025.
• Nomination Limit and Criteria: Each institute may nominate up to 10 of the best demonstrable innovations or prototypes with a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 4 or above for YIC 2025.
• Exclusion of Previously Supported Innovations: Do not nominate any innovation that has already received financial support from MIC, SIH, or any other central/state government scheme.
• Recency of Innovations: Preferably, nominate innovations developed within the last two academic years.

Guidelines for Innovators/Team Leaders for Innovation Submission

• Registered innovators should log in to the YUKTI portal to check, update, or upgrade their applications if needed.
• To be eligible for nomination, the innovation’s verification status must be “Recommended” at the institute level.
• Contact your IIC point person of your institute for support with verification and nomination to YIC 2025.
• If you haven’t submitted your innovation yet, log in to YUKTI Portal to submit and notify your institute for verification and then nomination.
• If not registered yet in the YUKTI Portal, then use the link provided by your institute or directly register, ensuring you select the correct institute during registration.
• If an idea previously submitted at TRL 1–3 (Idea/PoC stage) has advanced to TRL 4+ (Innovation/Prototype stage), you must upgrade its status in the YUKTI portal before it can be considered for nomination.

For more information, visit MIC.