Incubation Entrepreneurship | Rabindranath Tagore University
Incubation Entrepreneurship
Incubation Entrepreneurship
Introduction

CIES (Center for Incubation for Entrepreneur and Start Up) at Rabindranath Tagore University promotes and motivates entrepreneurial activities amongst the students especially in the rural region of the Bhopal & Raisen District. It fosters creativity and offers support in translating an idea to business. It encourages the student to attend workshops on entrepreneurship development, arranges the study tours for the understanding of the process and structure of business and industry. CIES-AU also organizes workshops, conferences, technical events, project exhibitions and Industry - Institute interaction sessions by collaborating with Industry and Government agencies to promote entrepreneurship.


Objectives

CIES provides a nurturing, instructive and supportive environment for entrepreneurs during the critical stages of starting up a new business. The goal of incubators is to increase the chance that a start-up will succeed, and shorten the time and reduce the cost of establishing and growing its business. If successful, business incubators can help to nurture the companies that will form the true creators of regions or nation’s future wealth and employment.


  • Encourage to develop Micro, Small and Medium Scale Industries.
  • Attract investment to uplift the industrial and social economy for the startups’ and training programs.
  • Help in Modernize and strengthening of the industrial units in Industrial area by extending consultancy helps in industrial academia interaction and development of in-house technology.
  • Creation of conducive atmosphere for the young entrepreneur and startups’ for enabling them to compete at national/ international levels, for availing global recognition.
  • Create friendly atmosphere and suitable policies for development of the entrepreneurial culture.
  • Help and coordinate between industry and other agencies & act as a facilitator.
  • Creation of Basic Infrastructure for Startup & Industrial Development.
  • Creation of job opportunities through Self Employment Schemes.
  • Train and develop the entrepreneurship skills among the educated unemployed youth.
  • Encourage Educated unemployed youth to opt for self-employment.
  • Case study and assignment for Revival of sick/closed Startups’ & industrial units.
  • Become Facilitator Bridge to gap between unaware youth by providing awareness regarding Government schemes and how to utilize it by promotions, seminars and webinars.
  • To promote and develop entrepreneurship.
  • To conduct research and provide consultancy for entrepreneurship development.
  • To coordinate and collaborate with other organizations in undertaking training, research and other activities to increase outreach of the institute.
  • To provide consultancy and monitoring service to MSMEs/ potential entrepreneurs and enhancing employability of participants.
  • To promote greater use of information technology in the activities/ functions of the CIES.
  • To comply with statutory responsibility, Startup support at the University and to the local area people.

Vision

To be a leading entrepreneurial professional development programmes, research and information service provider in the field of entrepreneurship promotion/ motivation and development and management of micro small and medium enterprises.


Mission

To create a conducive environment for entrepreneurial activities through organizing different type of training programmes, research and other activities aimed at capacity building and enterprise creation with focus on Renewable Technology, Agricultural and Computer Networking Sectors.


Our functions which are required for entrepreneurial culture development are as follows :
  • Designing and organizing training activities for different target group and undertaking research in the relevant to entrepreneurship.
  • Improving the efficiency, effectiveness and delivery of the change agents and development practitioners i.e. trainers, support organizations engaged in enterprise building. etc.
  • Provide consultancy service to the prospective and existing entrepreneurs.
  • Increasing the outreach of activities of the institute through collaborative activities and increasing their effectiveness through use of different tools of information technology.

Rabindranath Tagore University is having CIES which is working with the Vision and Mission to develop entrepreneurial culture in the University and nearby. The CIES-AU is having outreach programmes for entrepreneurship awareness and creating new Startups self-sustainability improvement methodology, motivating production and manufacturing.


Practices at CIES

CIES center will prove that where we systematically work with innovators to take their ideas to commercialization stage. Our experts use interdisciplinary methods to build use cases to take the innovation to market. The Centre offers customized Incubation Networking to early stage start-ups to help them build and scale their ventures. Our customized-to-venture Incubation Support ranges from 6 to 24 months to supercharge selected startups under the guidance of high caliber mentors.

The Centre offers a distinctive, creative atmosphere where new ideas and ventures can flourish. They will gain all the benefits of being in close proximity to the advanced technology, expertise and facilities of The Entrepreneurship School.


Practices of CIES are listed as :
S. no.  Name of Program Detail (Dates and Duration)
*if Available
Special Remark / Out Come
*if Achieved
1 FACULTY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CONDUCTED BY EDII BHOPAL OFFICE
15/11/2016 TO 26/11/2016

Four faculties of university having heterogeneous group i.e. technical and non-technical were trained to lay the foundation of CIES-AU. Details are as follows.
1 Dr. Srishti Umekar
2 Dr. Preeti Shrivastava
3 Prof. Ravitesh Mishra
4 Prof. Anurag S D Rai

2 Student Interaction Programme for Entrepreneurial Culture Promotion 3/12/2016 to 29/01/2017 Interactions with students of all stream of university were done during this SIP event at Technical block lecture hall and university auditorium. To promote the entrepreneurial culture in the university
3 IIT-GUWATHAI INCUBATION CENTRE VISIT 06/02/2017 TO 07/02/2017 Incubation centre visit.
4 Mi-Vertex 04/02/2017 The talk show will focus on the concept of Make In India, how to start new ventures and many more thoughts related to our country growth through the manufacturing sector specifically.
5 Start UP Event 03/03/2017 Students from all over nation were invited to present their start up ideas and provoking make in India theme.
6 CIES Inauguration 04/03/2017 Formal Inauguration of CIES-AU was done by Industrialist and Honb’ V.C Proff. A.K.Gwal and Registrar Dr. Vijay Singh.
7 Stand Up Event 04/03/2017 Stand Up Award were given to the various Industrialist and their journey to be an entrepreneur were told to the university audience.
8

EAC Camp
(Entrepreneurship Awareness camp)

20-02-2017 to 23-02-2017
07-03-2017 to 09-03-2017
23-03-2017 to 25-03-2017
10-04-2017 to 12-04-2017
17-04-2017 to 20-04-2017

CIES organize 5 EAC camp, Sponsored by EDII Ahmadabad and DST. To generate the awareness of entrepreneurial knowledge and how to start and contribute towards the make in India concept.
   9 Youth Connect 24-04- 2017 The whole event was conducted through the Budding Entrepreneur of different areas, to give this motivation to the students towards the opening up of startup & choose entrepreneurship as their career.
 10 Industrial Visits

22-02-2017
08-03-2017
24-03-2017
11-04-2017
18-04-2017

Industrial visit organized by CIES
Serva foam Industries
Vardhman Group
Surevin 181 Call centre
HEG ltd
CRISP


EVIDENCE OF SUCCESS

The effectiveness of the entrepreneurial laboratory/pre-incubators reviewed was difficult to evidence. While the majority identified a number of successful start-ups that graduated from the entrepreneurial lab/pre-incubator there is not systematic information available on the performance of start-ups, funding raised etc. Across the case study entrepreneurial labs/preincubators the start-ups created were highly varied in nature, ranging from high-tech high growth potential businesses to low growth potential lifestyle businesses. As such it is not simple to identify best practice across the case studies although the completed case studies do showcase a range of good practice and different approaches towards start-up and incubation. We had 5 incubating Startups at our Incubator which are Startup of students and faculty they are performing impressively in this cut-to-edge atmosphere, our present incubating startups were focusing on Research and Product Development along with Service Based quotients. As the CIES is governed by young and youthful minds there are lots of success story to be tell.


Our startups are below :
Start up Title Nature of Venture Year of commencement Entrepreneur
Ink Press Tattoo Pvt. Ltd. Service industry 2015 Mr. Yash Prajapati
Hellodox Digital Platform connecting Doctors and Patients 2015 Mr. Manish Nahar
Energy Green Providing Energy to rural and remote areas 2015 Mr. NarendraThakre
Indian Share Broker Share Broker Comparison Platform 2015 Mr. SamvedSinho
K-12 Stem Experiential Learning Kits 2015 Mr. Rachit Neam
Medicloud365 India’s First patient centric portal where patient’s comprehensive medical history is managed 2016 Mr. Geet Soni
PoojaPaath Solutions An integrated digital platform exclusively focused on serving the religious needs of people 2016 Mr. Rahul Dixit
Tinkering Lab Tinkering LAB[T-LAB is a space of ‘doing academics’. Combined with the learnings from a school it complements through achieving curricular objectives such as critical thinking, observation, questioning and hypothesis 2016 Mr. PramodMaithil
Happinesss.in Event Management Company 2016 Mr.Sandeep Poddar
Start up Title Nature of Venture Year of commencement Entrepreneur
Ink Press Tattoo Pvt. Ltd. Service industry 2015 Mr. Yash Prajapati
Hellodox Digital Platform connecting Doctors and Patients 2015 Mr. Manish Nahar
Energy Green Providing Energy to rural and remote areas 2015 Mr. NarendraThakre
Indian Share Broker Share Broker Comparison Platform 2015 Mr. SamvedSinho
K-12 Stem Experiential Learning Kits 2015 Mr. Rachit Neam
Medicloud365 India’s First patient centric portal where patient’s comprehensive medical history is managed 2016 Mr. Geet Soni
PoojaPaath Solutions An integrated digital platform exclusively focused on serving the religious needs of people 2016 Mr. Rahul Dixit

CONSULTANCY
  • Enterprise Planning
  • Enterprise Management
  • Enterprise Expansion, Diversification & Growth
  • Management Consultancy
  • Marketing Consultancy with specialization on export and border trade
  • Technology Sourcing
  • Technology Propagation
  • Project Reports

POTENTIAL INCUBATES
  • University graduate students
  • Researchers
  • IT Industry Professionals
  • Local Farmers and Innovators
  • Agriculturist and promoters
  • Renewable and Energy Companies
  • Near to Audyogik Vikas Kendra Mandideep and Govindpura
  • Ecology of University in Lap of Nature, Agriculture and Industrial District
  • Start-ups / SMEs
  • Innovation branch of existing firms

List of activities / action plan on how to activate the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the region :
S.NO ACTIVITY
1. STUDENT INTERACTION PROGRAM
2. ENTREPRENEURIAL AWARENESS CAMP, IN REGION
3. INDUSTRY INTERACTION PROGRAM
4. STARTUP CHALLENGE EVENTS
5. HACKATHON
6. NATIONAL SEMINAR
7. INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR AND EVENTS
8. STARTUP-EXPO
9. INDUSTRIAL EXPO
11. STARTUP MELA
12. RUN FOR ENTREPRENURE
13. STARTUP AND GOVERNMENT SCHEME ADVERTISING YATRA. FOR REGION AND M.P.
14. MI-VERTEX-SCHOOL AND COLLAGE LEVEL COMPETITION
15. AISECT-STANDUP- AWARDS
16. FACULTY INTERACTION PLAN
17. INTERACTION WITH EMPLOYESS WHO ARE GOING TO RETIRE IN 5 YEARS TO ENCOURAGE THEM FOR NEW VENTURES, FOR CONVERTING THERE KNOWLEDGE TO JOBS PROVIDER.
18. YOUTH AWARENESS CAMP
19. ENTREPRENEURE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
20. INCLUSION OF ENTREPRENURE AND GOVERNMENT POLICY IN SYLLABI OF UNIVERSITY
21. CIES-AIM QUATERLY MAGZINE. BLOG AND WEBSITE CREATION.
22. PROMOTING GRASS ROOT INOVATORS BY CREATING AWARENSS.

Incubates Qualification Criteria
  • The incubation lab is open to all Indian nationals irrespective of the State
  • In case of international teams, majority stake must be held by Indians.

CIES-AU STARTUP SEGMENT

CIES-AU will have four startup heads, which provide complete flexibility to the university eco-system to nurture startup and innovation culture, these are as follows :

  • FACULTY STARTUP
  • STUDENT STARTUP
  • COMPANY STARTUP
  • OUTREACH STARTUP

Startup Support :

Images :
EAC camp Industrial visit PMYUVA