IIIM-Technology Business Incubator organised a city camp on entrepreneurship development in Government Degree College, Drass on September 26.

Pr. Scientist, CSIR-IIIM & Principal Investigator, IIM-TBI Jammu, Dr. Saurabh Saran and Coordinator/CEO, IIIM-TBI, CSIR-IIIM, Jammu, Er. Ankush Varma was present.

The programme was conducted under the aegis of “Bio-NEST”. The Bio-NEST was launched by “BIRAC”, a Not-for-profit public sector enterprise that was set up by Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India in 2012, with a vision that focuses on fostering the biotech innovation ecosystem in the country. The purpose of the city camp was to create awareness about start-ups, understand the challenges of being an entrepreneur, and the importance of skill-based training. 

Shabir Ahmad, Assistant Professor of Commerce kick-started the session by sensitizing the audience about the importance of technology in entrepreneurship and its future in India. 
 
Dr. Saurabh Saran briefed about the Bio-NEST how enterprising ideas in the biotech sector need incubation support and how people need a landing space to test their ideas, run their operations, have access to high-end instrumentations, and locate in a place where they connect with other start-ups and mentors.

Er. Ankush Varma spoke at length about the existing facilities in IIIM-Technology Business Incubator (TBI), and how it offers intellectual, financial, and infrastructural support to entrepreneurs, new start-ups, researchers, students who plan to materialize their ideas into commercially successful ventures.

Moreover, the speaker mentioned a few examples of those who got training in TBI and then went on to become successful entrepreneurs in their respective fields.

The faculty members and students of GDC Drass, students of Govt. Higher Secondary School, Drass and Govt. Higher Secondary School, Bhimbhat took part in the camp.

The session concluded with a healthy interactive segment during which students posed questions, and the speakers provided them with satisfying answers.