IIT AND KOTA

Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IIT-Gn) is gearing up to promote entrepreneurship at the grassroots level in its neighbourhood. It will do so by cultivating a social entrepreneurial ecosystem among its faculty, staff and students.  To develop its outreach entrepreneurship programme, the institute signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with I Create India, a non-profit organization that has been offering entrepreneurship programmes to disadvantaged youth and women since 1999. The MoU was signed by Prof Sudhir K Jain, director of IIT-Gn, and Ulhas Kamat, CEO of I Create India.  Following the MoU, I Create India and IIT-Gn conducted an Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme (EAP) for the faculty and staff of IIT-Gn as well as Vishwakarma Government Engineering College and Saffrony Institute of Technology.  "IIT-Gn believes in being an involved member of the community and a good neighbour. We are constantly looking for ways to engage with and contribute to t...

                                       Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay will establish an  entrepreneurship centre  in its premises, with funds received from Syntel co-founders Bharat Desai and Neerja Sethi, under the aegis of the Desai Sethi Family Foundation (DS Foundation). The new centre, to be named Desai Sethi Centre for Entrepreneurship, will foster entrepreneurship and technology innovation through new programmes for education and research, multi disciplinary courses, research labs and partnerships. Students will also receive mentorship from  IIT Bombay  faculty and guest faculty from global institutions. "The entrepreneurship centre will enable IIT-B to become the hub of entrepreneurship in the region, similar to role played by the Stanford University in the Silicon Valley," said Prof. Devang V Khakhar, Director, IIT Bombay at the institute's ent...