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Technopreneur 2009 workshop organized by Technopark TBI in association with Innovation Lab, TechnoFIRST magazine and ITIH- TBI, intends to create awareness on Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, among the Innovators from every segment and the campuses of Academic Institutions across Central Kerala. The inspiration behind this initiative has been to utilize and effectively convert the skills and expertise of students and rural innovators to start entrepreneurial ventures. 

The first generation entrepreneurs need various support services like marketing, business facilitation, technical expertise, preparation of business plan, and resources for financing and managing businesses during their start-up phase, to enhance the prospects of their survival.  Incubators and similar mechanisms are intended to provide a conducive atmosphere, range of critical support services and facilities to nurture and support a start-up. Innovative ideas are incubated and are supported and nurtured into real innovations by various stages of pre-incubation and incubation providing them necessary technical support, infrastructural facilities, mentoring and so on. This programme aims to address these issues. 

This time we are aiming mainly at prospective Innovators, Faculty members of  Engineering Colleges, Teachers of Vocational Higher Secondary Schools and Technical Schools across Central Kerala, comprising the districts Pathanamthitta, Alappuzha, Kottayam, Idukki, Ernakulam and Thrissur.  

National Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (NCIIE) , the training arm of Technopark TBI in association with EDII Ahmedabad with the support of Department of Science & Technology(DST) Govt of India conducted a Faculty Development Program(FDP) designed to train and develop professionals in the area of  Entrepreneurship Development. The FDP will be held in Technopark from December 8-19, 2009. The programme is designed to train and develop professionals in the area of Entrepreneurship Development so that they can act as ‘Resource Persons’ in guiding and motivating young students, particularly from science, engineering and  technology stream, to take up entrepreneurship as their career.

For more details contact : NCIIE on 0471-2700222 or mail to register@technoparktbi.org

The last date of the submission of the Nomination Forms for the ISBA 2010 Awards have been extended to 23rd November, 2010

Please Email your proposal to the Awards committee at awards2010@isba.in  

 For more details visit www.isba.in/isba2010/awards

Mr.Rajaram Keelar,Incubation Manager, SJCE-STEP addressing the partcipants

Boby Varghese, Director, SE Mentor taking Session

A workshop on Software engineering Best Principles and Practices  was conducted at SJCE-STEP,  Mansagangothri ,Mysore  on 29 th and 30th . The workshop was organized jointly by TSECC (Technopark software engineering competency center) ,  (NCIIE) National Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship  & Technopark TBI for business start-ups, students and academic research community. SE-Mentor provided consultants for the initiative. The workshop was attended by 35 professionals from the incubation companies in and around Mysore.

DST-Lockheed Martin India Innovation Growth Programme  has been launched by the Department of Science and Technology along with the Lockheed Martin Corporation, Indo-US S&T Forum, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), and the IC² Institute at the University of Texas at Austin with the aim of accelerating the new and innovative Indian technologies in the global marketplace.

You may also apply online through    http://www.indiainnovates.in/application.asp

For further information on the same you may contact Ms. Eittee Gupta, Assistant Director, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) at 011 – 23765335 or eittee.gupta@ficci.com.                      URL : www.indiainnovates.in

The Expert Advisory Committee  Meeting of Technopark TBI  chaired by Mr. Mervin Alexander recommended Seed Support Funding to MobShare Mobile Systems India P Ltd. The Meeting was held at Park Centre on Nov 10, 2009.

T-TBI Chairman Mr.Mervin Alexander handing over the 1st installment of Seed to Mr.Sanjay Vijayakumar,CEO-MobShare

The third TePP Monitoring Committee Meeting of Technopark TUC was held at Park Centre, Technopark on 7th Novemeber 2009 at Park Centre, Technopark. Three projects namely Grid Power Monitoring System by Mr.Vipin G, Voltage Frequency Protector  by Mr.Aneesh Benny and Interface Device for Online Gadgets Servicing  by Mr.Bijo Stephen and Mr. John were presented for Micro TePP Funding.

The review of the project

“Designing of Ball Press washer for cleaning and crushing biological raw  materials” was also presented in the meeting. The committee expressed satisfaction after reviewing the projects.   Mr.N.T.Nair, Mr.Philip John, Mr.K.C.Chandrasekharan Nair, Ms.Annie Moses, Mr.Sreejith and Ms.Surya Thankam were present in the meeting.

The 2^nd  Tepp Training Programme for Innovators & Outreach Faculty was organized at SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai from Oct 21-25, 2009. The training topic was “From Working Prototype to Enterprise”. The programme started with the lighting of lamp by The Director, SPJIMR and Prof M S Rao and other participants. The programme strongly emphasised on the value proposition and identifying the customer and how to capture him. Also how to commercialize a working prototype. The whole programme was highly interactive with discussions regarding innovations and the innovators were given activities to discuss and solve various puzzles. The programme was very useful for the budding Entrepreneurs as it discussed various ways of achieving success. 21 Participants and 2 DSIR Officials attended the programme. From Technopark TUC Ms. Annie Moses and a team of innovators including Dr.PT. Ajithkumar, Mr.Syamkumar, Mr.Chandu Sasidharan attended the training programme. There were sessions by Prof MS Rao, Prof Rushi Anandan, Prof S K Palekar, Prof Parimal Merchant, Prof Suresh Lalwani, Prof Lata Dhir and  Entrepreneurs from SINE shared their views for the benefit of the participants.  Dr. AS Rao, Former Advisor, TePP- DSIR and Professor from SPJIMR took a session and delivered the closing remarks.