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Innovation Exchange

You are not just a talent supplier. You are an innovation partner — once industry can actually book you.

Every university has four assets industry needs and cannot reach: student teams, laboratory infrastructure, faculty expertise and IP generation capacity. The Innovation Exchange is the marketplace that makes all four bookable.

  • 4 sub-modules
  • Non-tuition revenue
  • NAAC Criterion 3 & 6 evidence

Four ways industry engages you

One public catalogue. Four revenue lines.

Every institution that signs an MoU gets an Innovation Exchange page — a public-facing catalogue of what it offers industry, searchable by every company and MSME on the platform.
01

Student Project Marketplace

Companies post real business challenges as semester-long projects. Student teams take them, supervised by faculty, and earn credit at the highest cognitive levels.

  • A project fee paid to the institution, with the majority going directly to the student team and their supervising faculty member
  • Matching runs on the combined outcome profile of the team, not on who applied first
  • Fourteen-week lifecycle with company milestone reviews at weeks 4, 8 and 12
  • Four standard IP templates — institution-owned, joint, company-owned, or startup spin-off
02

Faculty Consulting Marketplace

Companies post consulting requirements. Your faculty bid. The platform handles the agreement, the escrow and the quality review.

  • Typical engagement ₹40,000 to ₹80,000 for four to six weeks
  • Standard NDA and engagement agreement templates, so nothing waits on legal
  • Milestone escrow — 50% upfront, 50% on delivery
  • The platform fee comes out of the company payment, never out of the faculty member’s quoted rate
03

Lab & Infrastructure Listing

List the equipment your institution already owns and industry cannot justify buying. An MSME that needs a two-week stress test becomes a paying customer.

  • You set the hourly and daily rate, and the availability windows
  • The overwhelming majority of every booking fee stays with your institution
  • Lab technician time included; faculty supervision billed separately if offered
  • Every booking is NAAC-reportable as industry-academia collaboration
04

IP Co-Creation Programme

A company and your institution jointly develop something novel, with the ownership split agreed before work begins.

  • Four standard IP models, reviewed by IP counsel and registered as DPIIT templates
  • A private project workspace with version-controlled deliverables and tracked milestones
  • Patent filing support through Udgam's network of patent agents on completion
  • A small, time-limited share of commercialisation revenue — agreed before any work begins

What one project looks like

A manufacturer's problem becomes a student team's semester.

The listing

Predictive maintenance for CNC machines

FieldValue
CompanyA mid-size electrical manufacturer, Innovation Partner tier
DomainManufacturing, machine learning
DeliverableWorking prototype plus documentation
Timeline14 weeks, semester-aligned
Team3–5 students, faculty supervision required
Project fee₹30,000 to the institution
IP termsInstitution retains IP; company gets a usage licence

Where the fee goes

  • Student teamThe largest share
  • Supervising facultyAn honorarium
  • InstitutionA retained share

What the institution also gets

  • Documented industry-academia integration for NAAC Criterion 3
  • Create-level outcome attainment for every student on the team — the rarest and highest-value evidence in the SAR
  • A live relationship with a company that now has a reason to recruit from you

Project lifecycle

Fourteen weeks, with the checkpoints written in.

The single reason industry-academia projects fail is that nobody owns the middle. Udgam schedules the middle.
  1. Week 1 — Kickoff

    Team formation, NDA signing, scope confirmation with the company.
  2. Week 4 — First milestone

    The company reviews progress and confirms direction.
  3. Week 8 — Second milestone

    Pivots permitted with company approval. Faculty supervisor signs off.
  4. Week 12 — Final submission

    Deliverable and presentation submitted through the platform.
  5. Week 14 — Close

    Company rating recorded, outcome credits posted, honorarium disbursed.

Why this matters beyond your balance sheet

India publishes far more research than it commercialises.

The gap is not intelligence. It is infrastructure — there has never been a structured marketplace connecting a faculty member's research depth to an MSME's product need.
63M+

MSMEs in India, most with no R&D capacity of any kind

15 lakh

faculty members whose domain expertise currently has no structured channel to industry

85%

of every lab booking fee that stays with your institution

When India begins to own the IP it creates — not just manufacture products designed elsewhere — the economic returns compound in a fundamentally different way.
Udgam Vision 2047
  • Innovative Projects

    Real business problems. Real student teams. Real outcomes.

  • Co-working

    Universities and industry, working on the same problems at the same time.

  • Viksit Bharat

    Every student placed is one more proof that $30 trillion is possible.

Innovation Exchange

List what you already own.

Your labs are idle after six in the evening. Your faculty have expertise no company can find. Your students need real problems. All three are solvable this semester.