Academia

Academia is represented by seven premier institutes of the country who are also hosts to the TCOEs.

Role of hosting Institute

• Facilitate undergraduate/postgraduate/Doctoral/Post Doctoral students or sponsor’s nominees to participate in fulfilling the objectives.
• Provide requisite technical and residential infrastructure at the campus.
• Nominate adequate Principal Investigators (PI) to guide students for result oriented research / training of trainers / project studies / consultancy for Industry.
• Facilitate TCOE to work as an autonomous body, retaining the dynamism of private sector, to fast track the process of attainment of objectives.
• Make provisions to offer internship to selected B Tech/M Tech students to promote studies /research in telecom domain.
• Facilitate TCOE to work out deliverables annually (commercially viable innovations, patents, published papers, prototype development, project/study reports, application development etc).Facilitate Centre to become self reliant through innovative mechanisms after 5 years.
• Permit naming of the Centre with the brand name of the sponsor as a healthy symbol of collaboration even beyond the funding period.
• Permit first right of refusal to sponsor in case of commercialization of innovations originating from the centre and predetermined revenue sharing models.
• Facilitate posting of one full time officer of the sponsor / TCOE to function as resident Project Coordinator
• Provide concessional fee model for training of the sponsor’s employees.
• Organize seminars and workshops from time to time with mutual agreement among the signatories of the MoU.
• Facilitate project review meetings once in six months by the Core group along with other Funding Agency/Industry and co-opted members.