New Delhi: A total of eight Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras teams presented their learnings and narrated how the I-NCUBATE programme transformed their entrepreneurial journey on Saturday.
The 19th Cohort of the I-NCUBATE Programme — an eight-week boot camp for early-stage start-ups — was organised by the Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (GDC).
The programme seeks to help these teams achieve lab-to-market transformation of their research ideas into start-ups that create positive social and economic impact at scale, reported NDTV.
The eight teams of Cohort 19 were from six different institutions including IIT Bombay, IISc, Bengaluru, and VIT, Vellore. The teams comprised research scholars, undergraduate students, and young entrepreneurs.
“The Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (GDC) is a unique concept as it helps the start-ups to identify if they should go ahead with their ideas. This helps in building confidence in young, aspiring entrepreneurs. During my visit to the Research Park of IIT Madras, it was evident that the investors were hunting for start-ups as the Park is a mark of the evolved ecosystem,” Head (National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board), Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Dr Anita Gupta, was quoted as saying by NDTV while addressing the programme virtually.
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