From the Director General’s Desk
At MIT, our connection with industry is not symbolic — it is structural. We believe that education must evolve in direct conversation with the real economy.
Traditional academic frameworks, though valuable, are rarely designed to serve smaller, innovation-driven student groups. Nor do they provide the ecosystem needed to convert ideas into enterprises. This gap is where the AIIC was born.
We are committed to building world-class facilities and forging global collaborations so that our students and mentors can take up projects of real industrial consequence — ventures that grow into startups as they graduate.
MIT’s strength has always been its ability to see the next horizon. The AIIC is that next horizon — where learning becomes enterprise, and imagination becomes impact.
Munish Sharma

Director General