User behaviour
IPR & Regulatory needs
Commercial dynamics
Manufacturing requirements
Funding opportunities
2 months, Online
iterative, unlimited interactions
project-wise, one-to-one
with a dedicated expert
Technology S-Curve
PESTEL analysis
Design Thinking
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
Value Proposition Canvas
Roger's diffusion curve
and many more..
Innovation Competitions
Designing Translational Research Projects
Raising Innovation Funds
Tech-Transfer or Deep-Tech Entrepreneurship
Each innovator is assigned a dedicated mentor to ensure continuity. Our mentors are experts with experience across the full innovation lifecycle, bound by confidentiality agreement and professional ethics.
Council of Innovation Management is not-for-profit initiative for advancing market-ready deep-tech innovation, and translational research.
With strategic advisories, the Tech-ideas of two Indian rsesearchers ranked within top-10 in a global hackathon for finding technologies to manage Covid-19 pandemic. After this success, the innovators received demand of their product from different countries.
A young postgraduate wanted to improve agarwood oil extraction in his village. With deep mentoring support from all perspectives, his idea was shaped into a viable startup project and earned a ₹50 lakh government grant for prototype development.
A scientist from a premier national research lab was developing Machine Learning software embedded diagnostic device. Through strategic mentoring, the idea was repositioned as a SaaS-based screening software. This pivot reduced development time and led to successful selection under a CSR funding program.
A seasoned corporate R&D professional struggled to fund her veterinary vaccine project. Idea-Clinic mentors helped reframe the concept to align with regulatory, IPR, and market dynamics. The refined plan attracted sufficient funding to build a working prototype.
An NIT alumna turned her Master's project into a market-ready innovation project with end-to-end guidance in technical refinement, experiment design, market orientation, and IPR strategy. Thus she won a national innovation challenge for ₹50 lakh to make a prototype.
Students: Advance your college-level innovations, Participate in Hackathons
Researchers: Design translational R&D projects
Professionals: Revive or develop new tech-ideas for Tech-Transfer or Startup, avail lab-access and innovation-support schemes
Best Stage: Ideation of project. Late stage are also welcome.
One-on-one project-specific mentoring
Monthly online innovation management sessions
Continued updates about funding schemes, even after mentorship
Grievance handling by CIM
Idea Validation : Critical review of the scientific data & idea’s assumptions from technological, strategic, market, and regulatory perspectives.
Refinement/Pivoting : Defining MVP and refining performance parameters
IPR & Licensing Strategy : Identification of IP opportunities, choosing the right instruments, and developing licensing or assignment plans.
Execution Planning & TRL Mapping : Mapping the TRL journey, collaboration strategies, incubation models, and manufacturing pathways.
Funding Strategy & Proposal Design : Financial need estimation and identification of the most suitable funding sources and mechanisms.
Step 1: Application / Pre-registration
Step 2: Preliminary Idea Review
Step 3: Confirmation & Confidentiality Agreement
Step 4: Fees Payment
Step 5: Personalized Mentorship for 2 months.
Only limited seats available each month. Pre-Register early
Join mentorship program within 6 months of booking, as per your convenience and availability of seats
Affordable fees, detailed in the online Application Form. Students receive 50% discount. Payable only after selection.
Independence Month Subsidy
The Council is celebrating the Independence Day of India, by giving 25% subsidy for all categories of innovators. Use the offer-code INDEPENDENCE25 for registration in August 2025 to avail the subsidised fees.
Proposal writing and pitch deck creation for select projects (additional charges apply).
Idea-Clinic methodology is a unique intellectual framework developed by CIM with the intensive involvement of multiple experts. The structure, flow, and mentoring process are copyright protected.
Ideation needs space for back-and-forth discovery.
The Idea Clinic provides sustained, structured, iterative support—not a rushed bootcamp. This format, developed and copyrighted by CIM, is specially built for translational innovation.
This isn’t a consultancy that hands over a solution. Our mentors act as guides—raising the right questions, exposing hidden challenges, and walking with you through strategic options. Success comes through co-creation.
Most researchers/ innovators / deep-tech-startups feel frustrated because their brilliant scientific ideas often fail to meet real world challenges.
Unfortunately, there is no other systematic support-system available for the innovators to overcome these challenges.
Hence, CIM endeavoured to arrange 360 degree assistance for the scientific innovators, from the senior Innovation Management experts, leading to creation of this program.
It's a pleasure that with special arrangements, we have been able to keep such high-level long-term intensive mentorship affordable for the innovators
Notification made with approval of the competent authority.
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Coordinator
Council of Innovation Management
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