The Student Start-up & Innovation Policy of Government of Gujarat aims to create an integrated, state-wide, university-based innovation ecosystem to support innovations and ideas of young students and provide a conducive environment for optimum harnessing of their creative pursuit. The Student Start-up & Innovation Policy synergises complementary efforts by different stakeholders while making strong efforts towards cultural change among students, preincubation support and other necessary measures required in creating and nurturing student innovations and help sustaining them. Primarily, at the education department level, the resources shall be utilised in building innovation support systems, processes and building a university-centric innovation ecosystem across the geography of the state that promotes innovative ideas and inculcates a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in educational institutions of Gujarat. The policy ensures that the missing links of the innovation value chain like prototype support, IP protection, knowledge-based enterprise development, platform to showcase success stories, and similar challenges get mitigated through policy and allied support. Through this policy, innovation and preincubation support across the state in academia will be inclusive on sectors, space and other aspects. It will aspire to create student innovators turning start-ups beyond technology domain as well. The Student Start-up & Innovation Policy mandates interventions at three levels:

a) State-level (strategy and planning)
b) University-level (contextual policy implementation & handholding)
c) Institution-level (grassroots level deployment and end to end support to ideas and innovations)