Purpose of the Award
The INAE young Innovator & Entrepreneur Award is instituted to encourage and recognize innovation and entrepreneurship among Young Engineers. The engineering innovations/inventions/concepts that have been actually realized and implemented in industry either in new processes or products would be given preference.
Eligibility
Any citizen of India not older than 45 years as on the 1st of January of the year of Award. However, women nominees are eligible for age relaxation of five years for the award.
Criteria
Both innovation and entrepreneurship together would be considered important and young innovators from Academia/Research organization or Industry whose novel engineering/technology ideas have been translated into successful startup enterprises would be given preference.
Validity
A nomination is valid for one year only. In case candidate is not selected during the year, there is no provision for nomination to be carried forward for the next year, however re-nomination is permitted.
Call for nominations
The nominations would be sought from INAE Fellows/CEOs/Directors/Head(s) of Industry, R&D organizations, Engineering institutions and Departments where nominee is currently working. Self-nomination is not permitted.
Nominations in respect of Women Innovators & Entrepreneurs shall be encouraged .
Last Date for Nomination
The last date of receipt of nominations for the year 2025 is 31st August 2025.
The Award
The award would carry a citation and an award of Rs 1 lakh to the selected individual candidate or to be shared by the group of individuals not exceeding three persons. Upto four awards would be given every year.
Selection Procedure
There would be a two-tier selection process wherein the initial shortlisting would be done by the Selection Committee. The shortlisted candidates would be then called for presentation to the Selection Committee. The Selection Committee would recommend the nominee for conferment of the INAE Young Innovator & Entrepreneur Award. In case no nomination is found suitable, no award would be conferred during that year.
Presentation of the Award
The awardees will be invited for the INAE Annual Convention being held in December each year wherein they would be conferred with the Award and may be invited to make the presentation of their work.
Forwarding of Nominations
The prescribed Nomination Form (in Word document) along with supporting documents, if any, should be submitted at INAE Email : inaehq@inae.in as under :
- By INAE Fellows through their registered email with INAE.
- By Nominator other than INAE Fellows to submit nomination through their official email.
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INAE Young Innovator & Entrepreneur Awardees 2022
2022 – In line with the directives, Certificates to the following recipients were sent by post.
Mr Sneh Rajkumar Vaswani, Cofounder & CEO at Miko, Mumbai, specialized in the field of ‘Metallurgical Process Engineering’ for development of robot series, which targets the need of millennial parents who seek a positive and trusted gateway of technology that caters to children’s learning and development needs.
Dr Vaibhav Tidke, CEO & Co-founder, S4S Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Aurangabad, specialized in the field of ‘Sustainable Agri-Food Processing’ for development of Solar Conduction Dryer (SCD) for farmers which reduces moisture content in agro-produce to preserve their produce up to 1 year without using any chemicals.
Dr OD Naidu, Senior Principal Engineer, Grid Automation R&D, Hitachi Energy, Bengaluru, specialized in the field of ‘Power System protection and monitoring’ for development of Fault locator technology for power transmission networks.
Dr Debarka Sengupta, Associate Professor, Dept. of Comp. Sc. and Engg. Dept. of Computational Biology, Infosys Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, specialized in the field of ‘Computational Biology’ for development of Blood based detection of cancers using gene expression profiles and machine learning.
2023 and 2024 – No awards were conferred.
