Panel Discussion

Speaker

Prof. (Dr) Mrutyunjay Suar

Prof. (Dr) Mrutyunjay Suar

Chairman-Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation (BCKIC), an initiative of the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to Govt of India

Director General of R&D and Innovation, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India

CEO of KIIT technology Business Incubator

Prof. Mrutyunjay Suar is the Director General of R&D and Innovation at KIIT University, Bhubaneswar and the CEO of KIIT Technology Business Incubator (KIIT-TBI). An entrepreneurial professor with PhD in Molecular Microbiology from University of Delhi and trained as postdoc at the Institute of Microbiology, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He returned to India and established the School of Biotechnology in 2007 under KIIT University which became a Centre of excellence awarded by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.

He established KIIT technology Business Incubator (KIIT-TBI), promoting deep tech start-up companies. Under his leadership, KIIT-TBI nurtured more than 450+ start-ups in last 14 years and created 9000+ jobs and established Centre of Excellence in incubation in the area of Digital Health, Diagnostics & Precision agriculture, supported by Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India. He is a passionate mentor and has been deeply involved mentoring deep-tech startups and helped them through their journey from ideation to enterprise creation. Under his leadership, KIIT TBI receives the best TBI of the year award-2017 from Hon’ble President of India, best IP driven Incubator of India award from the Ministry of Commerce & Industries, Govt of India, Asia’s best incubator award-2023 from AABI at Bangkok.

Currently, he has taken the responsibility as the Chairman of Bhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation (BCKIC), an initiative of the office of the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the Govt of India and creating the Science, technology and innovation ecosystem in Odisha and North East states. Under his leadership, BCKIC is setting up Technology and Innovation Hubs in all the eight states of North East regions. Main purpose of these hubs will not only promote technology innovation but also will facilitate technology validation and deployment activities.

Received several recognitions including Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSc), American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Professorship award in 2012 and visited UCLA, USA, GP Chatterjee memorial award during 102nd Indian Science Congress, Future young technical leaders by STARS Switzerland in 2010. He was also nominated for Global Entrepreneurship leadership Symposium at HAAS Business School, USA and visited UC Berkley.