Category: Technology Business Incubator

EDII Launches CrAdLE to Support New Enterprises

EDII Launches CrAdLE to Support New Enterprises

A new Technology Business Incubator (TBI) of the famous Entrepreneur Development Institute of India (EDII) is all set launch, known as the Centre for Advancing and Launching Enterprises (CrAdLE), to support entrepreneurs in getting their new businesses started. The ambitious plan aims to work with about 40 startups in a course of three years. Each of these budding companies would be expected to create 100 jobs each, thereby creating over 4000 jobs in all.

CrAdLE will have Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan as its first chairman of its advisory committee. The board would comprise of seasoned entrepreneurs, technologists, venture capitalists, academicians and other professionals from the specific domains that the centre aims at promoting. Businesses will therefore benefit immensely from specialized knowledge and the right technological support for smart organization, communication and selling. In addition, enterprises incubating in CrAdLE will go through review parameters to give them an exact measure of growth they have witnessed in various stages.

CrAdLE will be set up at EDII’s Ahmedabad campus, and a space of 10,000 square feet has been marked for the same. The centre should be up and about in a matter of a few weeks now. Its main focus, as of now, is to help nourish businesses in four sectors: manufacturing, healthcare, renewable energy and food and agriculture.

Gujarat is recognized to have a sizeable number of naturally entrepreneurial people and Ahmadabad shows fine signs of becoming India’s next start-up hub particularly in the non-IT sectors. With the right institutional support, businesses started here can thrive not only in India but in international markets as well. Gopalakrishnan believes EDII’s TDI to be an excellent resource for entrepreneurs, especially at this point of time when there is a most conducive climate of encouragement to new enterprises coming from the PM himself.

Besides facilitating the essential hand-holding to companies in their nascent stages towards a seamless commercialization of ideas, knowledge and technologies, CrAdLE will also provide assistance in legal, financial and technical matters. Moreover, all entrepreneurs who are part of the program will have access to additional sources of funding besides a fund of Rs. 10 crore from the DST for 5 years.

EDII to Develop Technology Business Incubator

EDII Soon to Develop Technology Business Incubator

The institute will help potential entrepreneurs convert business ideas into business empires

Pioneer in Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP), EDII has now become synonymous with entrepreneurship as well as success. The driving force of entrepreneurship movement in the country, the institute has won accolades on education and training front. With over three decades of experience in training, EDII strives to improve performance of existing enterprising in India by guiding them in all spheres of entrepreneurship such as technology selection, introduction of innovation, promoting tie-ups by networking, suggesting new sources of funds, developing competencies and teaching them new methods of marketing. Now, EDII is developing Technology Business Incubator to provide one stop solution to all the budding entrepreneurs.

With wide-ranging activities, the institute has created substantial pool of budding entrepreneurs. Now, with the help of Department of Science and Technology of Government of India, EDII is going to come up with Technology Business Incubator (TBI) to support potential entrepreneurs convert innovative business ideas into ventures.

EDII is equipped with physical infrastructure to set up a business incubator and will provide modern facilities including existing library and information center to the incubates. EDII has also signed MOUs with Gujarat Technological University (GTU) and Pandeet Deen Dayal Petroleum University (PDPU) to support student start-ups. Apart from that, EDII is affiliated with Government of India’s Ministry of External Affairs, Ministry of Textiles, Ministry of Food Processing, NSTEDB, DST, DC, Ministry of MSME, Ministry of Rural Development and Ministry of Panchayati Raj to promote entrepreneurship education and training. In addition to that EDII has been training students in diverse sectors such as agriculture, food processing, manufacturing, engineering, textile, IT, renewable energy, service sectors and several others.

Through intensive training, the students of EDII have come up with 73 innovative business ideas that are being nurtured by internal and external faculty members. EDII is also planning to come up with various short-term training programmes on Entrepreneurship Management to help convert innovative business ideas into business empires.

Technology Business Incubator (TBI) in a Nutshell:

The Technology Business Incubator (TBI) center will help potential entrepreneurs grow their business ideas. It will provide guidance regarding patent and IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) and will also aid them with necessary counselling and networking. It will also conduct short-term programme on entrepreneurship management. The experienced faculty of EDII will provide all-inclusive guidance to the prospective entrepreneurs for setting up business.

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