Guess what? IIT-Madras is allowing professors to take sabbaticals to focus on their startups
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At IIT-Madras,
When Professor
The new found demand for the technology he was developing was so high that Srinivasan felt the need to accelerate work and push things forward.
Initially he tried to take some hours off every day from teaching and focus on his startup, only to find it was not making much progress.
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Finally to sort out things he went for a sabbatical at the end of which he was successfully able to make a couple of products work.
"Typically, an academical sabbatical means a faculty would either go to another university or a research organisation or even an industry in some cases and they will spend time there up to a year or so," noted Prof Krishnan Balasubramanian, Dean of IC&SR department, IIT-M.
"What we are offering is also an opportunity to do more. If you are involved in a startup from the beginning and want to focus more on it, then sabbatical is a way to do it."
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According to him the need to avail a sabbatical could be sector-specific as well as company-specific. "If you are in a startup sector which needs very high rate of growth or if you are in a company that needs your time very significantly then your participation has to be wholesome and you may want to take time-off and spend time there," he said.
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