TSIC signs MoU with Kautilya School

Hyderabad Telangana State Innovation Cell (TSIC) has signed an MoU with Gitam's Kautilya School of Public Policy (KSPP), Hyderabad, to establish 'Social Innovation Ecosystem' in the State. KSPP will be the research partner for TSIC to help build a vibrant ecosystem and to make evidence-based recommendations to enable a conducive administrative and regulatory environment for social innovation in the State.

Students of Kautilya will also be engaged through research opportunities and capstone projects with TSIC and its sister organisations to provide hands-on experience. Kautilya also will work with various stakeholders to identify government and administrative reforms that will enable an efficient environment for social innovations. "We are delighted with this long-term collaboration with Kautilya School of Public Policy. We will now be able to use lessons from social innovation pilots that we will roll out together to influence larger policy matters in the right direction. Telangana being at the forefront of many social innovations will be able to create a social innovation ecosystem supported by the learnings from this collaboration" said Jayesh Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Industries, IT and Commerce, Telangana.