Center of Design Excellence, IIT Hyderabad
The RAMP-Center of Design Excellence (CoDE) at IIT Hyderabad represents a strategic collaboration between academia and the MSME industry, aimed at enhancing industrial capabilities through innovative design solutions.
The Centre will focus on the following key areas across three major functional areas:
- New Product Innovations
- Sustainable Infrastructure and Smart Cities
- Emerging Technologies (UI/UX, VR, AR, MR, AI, etc.)
- Graphics, Branding and strategy.
- Heritage, crafts, and culture
- Film & Animation
Objectives
Design Excellence: Provide design consultation, workshops, and prototyping facilities for superior product development.
Promote collaboration and networking among MSMEs, designers and experts for innovative, inclusive solutions and research.
Tech integration: Assist MSMEs in adopting cutting-edge technologies to enhance their products and processes.
Plug existing skill gaps and nurture design talent to improve individual and organisations capabilities.
Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance (RAMP)
RAMP is a World Bank supported Central Sector Scheme aimed at improving access of MSMEs to market, finance and technology upgradation by enhancing the outreach of existing MoMSME schemes. The programme also aims at strengthening institutions at the Central and State level, and enhancing Centre- State collaboration.
Objectives
The main objectives of RAMP include strengthening coordination and institutions, building and integrating technology platforms, enhancing firm capabilities and access to markets, strengthening the receivables financing market, enhancing guarantee products to promote increased greening and gender participation, and expanding access to the Online Dispute Resolution Mechanism (ODR).
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Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad
The Department of Design offers a vibrant environment for learning, practicing, research, and exploring several facets of design. The department envisions to creatively engage in the space between technologies and people. This involves facilitating innovation in the key emergent areas such as Participatory & Collaborative Design, Communication & Interaction Design, Professional Ethics & Sustainability, Product Systems & Services, Design & Education, Wellness, Crowd-Sourced Design.
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CoDE Logo guidelines
The logo represents the organization's philosophy in a compact, recognizable form and plays a crucial role in maintaining a consistent and coherent visual identity
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