Section 32 — Functions and duties of Board of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages.

The Board of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages shall have the following functions and duties, namely :-

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(a) to work on long-term policy and strategy for promotion of research culture in the University ;

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(b) to advise and encourage the teachers to take up research in emerging areas at individual and group level ;

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(c) to promote inter-disciplinary research programmes by coordinating amongst teachers and also to make and articulate policies for sharing of research and development infrastructure ;

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(d) to encourage the University departments, centres, to hold research seminars in all disciplines for the research students ;

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(e) to publish research journals, monographs for different disciplines ;

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(f) to decide upon policy for maintenance of standards of research for Ph.D. degrees, in consonance with the norms of the University Grants Commission and other regulatory bodies ;

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(g) to work on creation of research and development data base for work done in University departments and schools, in a stand-alone mode or as group activity or in collaboration with industries and other research and development laboratories ;

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(h) to work out and initiate research in delivery of education, pedagogy of face-to-face and e-learning, impact of e-learning and virtual classrooms on learning and understanding of students, open distance or online learning and conventional education ;

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(i) to make efforts and also assist the teachers of University schools, departments, centres to raise the funds for research activities ;

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(j) to work out the budget for research activities of the University ;

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(k) to mobilize money from the industry for enhancing research activities ;

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(l) to identify problems and issues within the jurisdiction of the University and to take special initiative to address such issues through systematic research ;

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(m) to work on long-term policies and strategies for creating synergy between researchers and industries resulting into promotion of knowledge and technology transfer and productive conversion of research ;

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(n) to encourage industries to promote, adopt and participate in the basic and applied research projects ;

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(o) to establish central research laboratories with the help of participation of national and international industries ;

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(p) to undertake any other task as may be assigned by the University authorities so as to carry out objectives of the Board ;

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(q) to liaise and establish with industry support incubation centre, research park at the University or its sub-campus ;

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(r) to create synergy at policy and operative level mechanism for co-existence and cooperation between various research and development activities in University schools or departments, and various industries in the State and in other States ;

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(s) to create synergy through operative policy mechanism and support system for incubation of good ideas such as product, process, service and innovation, into a scalable mode so as to establish small, medium and large industries ;

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(t) to establish a system to support protection of intellectual property rights at national and global level ;

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(u) to establish a system so as to guide and help young entrepreneurs in operational, legal, business model creation and financial support ;

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(v) to prepare and implement annual programmes of activities of the Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages and review the same periodically ;

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(w) to prepare the annual budget of the Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages ;

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(x) to oversee and monitor the activities of the Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages ;

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(y) to submit an annual report of working of Centre for Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages to the Board of Governance ;

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(z) to undertake any other task as may be assigned by the University authorities to carry out the objectives of the Board of Research, Innovation, Incubation and Linkages ;

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(za) to put up to the Board of Governance for its approval the research and development, testing and consultancy criteria.