Fostering Innovation-Driven Entrepreneurship
CIIE(Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship) aims at fostering innovation-driven entrepreneurship through incubation, research and dissemination of knowledge. CIIE was setup by IIM, Ahmedabad in 2001 and is supported by Government of Gujarat and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Since CIIE inception, a host of organizations, professionals, academicians and networking partners within India and across the globe have been closely associated with the initiatives of CIIE. Some of the ongoing projects of CIIE are also being backed by Wadhwani Foundation (set up by IT entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, USA), Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (GoI), Piramal Foundation and Microsoft.
Setting up of CIIE was an outcome of the first national workshop on Indian Incubator for Innovation Based Enterprise (I3E) at IIMA in 1998, which brought together innovators, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, technology administrators and academics to understand the processes and policies related to commercializing technology based innovations by individual innovators. Expertise at IIMA in areas of technology network, management, grassroots level innovations and entrepreneurship development, provided the necessary impetus and the intellectual basis for this initiative.
Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship aims at fostering innovation and entrepreneurship development through research, incubation, consultancy and training in hi-tech and mass impact technologies to enhance welfare and competitiveness of the Indian economy. The three main focus area of CIIE include
- Incubation: To incubate technology based innovations and help commercialize them through an enterprise
- Research: To conduct research as well as training and develop educational material on topics related to innovations and their evolution into viable enterprises
- Dissemination: To disseminate research findings and related information on the management of innovation, incubation and entrepreneurship.
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