Overview
The Incubation centre of Assam University has been set up for innovation and entrepreneurship to enable the students to get firsthand experience in entrepreneurship, promote innovation driven activities in the University and provide a comprehensive and integrated range of support including mentoring, training programs, networking and an array of other benefits.
Vision
The Incubation Centre of Assam university, silchar campus is dedicated to discover the entrepreneurs stashed inside the students of the University . The Incubation centre connects students with solid entrepreneurial skills and helps them to get exposed to an array of networking, contacts, mentorship, workshops, skill development, seminars, competitions and so forth. The Incubation centre of Assam University believes in a very subtle concept of “Idea” and “Innovation” We believe, when there is an idea there is innovation and where innovation and idea thrives, there thrives the entrepreneur. There is an entrepreneur inside every student and youth, the Incubation centre of Assam University just helps them to foster that hunger of entrepreneurship.
Objective
1.To encourage students and the locality to take part in entrepreneurship development through the different awareness programmes.
2.To conduct workshops, lectures, industrial visits etc., for improving entrepreneurial skills of students and concerned local people.
3.To provide information for acquiring loans and financial assistance from government and non-government agencies.
Works
Since its inception from December 11, 2018, under its principal coordinator Dr. Debomalya ghosh, Deputy Coordinator Dr. Prodipto Das, Asstt. Co-ordinator Dr. Amitabha Bhattacharjee and Dr. Sudip Choudhury the Incubation centre of Assam university has organized various entrepreneurship summits in collaboration with EDII ( Entrepreneurship development institution of India) and also organized different industrial motivational workshops sponsored by MSME.
During September 2023, Assam University was selected as the HOST INSTITUTE for the NEC-Sponsored Project “Establish, Develop and Manage Entrepreneurship Development Centre and Incubation Centers in NorthEast Region’s Educational Institutions” implemented by IIE Guwahati
Thus Assam University has established the EDC (Entrepreneurship Development Centre).