Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur is a student organisation established with the aim of fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among college students in India. We are one of the most successful entrepreneurial organisations in the country with 24 start-ups incubated within 5 years of our inception. We as a part of our activities conduct 2 flagship competitions namely Empresario and Envision open for students all across the globe
Empresario [/b]is our annual Business Plan competition. For the first round of Empresario, we will require students to fill up a questionnaire asking in brief about their Business idea and send it to us at [email protected], this questionnaire can be downloaded from our website www.ecell-iitkgp.org. Deadline for submission November 10th 2011.
We being a technical university also conduct a annual product design competition Envision. As a part of Envision we invite new innovative products in following background :-
Mechanical: Do you think your design can beat the Nano? Do you have a design for the next generation biped robot? Then this path is for you.
Electronics & Electrical: Is the idea for the next iPod floating in your head? Do you dream about circuits in your sleep? Follow your heart, follow your path!
Information Technology & Software: A path much treaded upon, but there is still a lot of scope for innovation in this field. Animation, business analytics, process automation, IT is just getting started.
Life Sciences & Biotechnology: Does your product promise a greener tomorrow? Do you have the solution for the ever increasing oil prices? Well what are you waiting for, start moving.
Miscellaneous: Select this path if you are in a query over which path to select.
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To participate in Envision just send us a technical writeup of your product design to [email protected]
Funding of upto Rs 1.8 crore is at stake.
We provide our shortlisted entries immense help in terms of mentorship and our winners also get a much sought after chance to pitch their ideas in front of some of India's biggest VCs and investors. Our mentor pool is rich and varied and has distinguished people from across different fields to help with every aspect of starting-up. Our mentors include TiE, NEN, Energy Alternatives India(EAI), Samman amongst others and we are associated with VCs such as Inventus, Seeders and angel investors such as Mumbai Angels and Indian Angel Network.
We conduct our flagship event - Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) every year in January, and this is one of the largest summits of its kind in India. For GES 2012 to be held from 13th to 15th January, our theme is: " Education: Innovation & Technology". The final rounds of Empresario and Envision will be held during GES’12. If you require any more details, please visit our website: www.ecell-iitkgp.org or contact Arpit Dave | [email protected] | +918348521887
Empresario [/b]is our annual Business Plan competition. For the first round of Empresario, we will require students to fill up a questionnaire asking in brief about their Business idea and send it to us at [email protected], this questionnaire can be downloaded from our website www.ecell-iitkgp.org. Deadline for submission November 10th 2011.
We being a technical university also conduct a annual product design competition Envision. As a part of Envision we invite new innovative products in following background :-
Mechanical: Do you think your design can beat the Nano? Do you have a design for the next generation biped robot? Then this path is for you.
Electronics & Electrical: Is the idea for the next iPod floating in your head? Do you dream about circuits in your sleep? Follow your heart, follow your path!
Information Technology & Software: A path much treaded upon, but there is still a lot of scope for innovation in this field. Animation, business analytics, process automation, IT is just getting started.
Life Sciences & Biotechnology: Does your product promise a greener tomorrow? Do you have the solution for the ever increasing oil prices? Well what are you waiting for, start moving.
Miscellaneous: Select this path if you are in a query over which path to select.
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To participate in Envision just send us a technical writeup of your product design to [email protected]
Funding of upto Rs 1.8 crore is at stake.
We provide our shortlisted entries immense help in terms of mentorship and our winners also get a much sought after chance to pitch their ideas in front of some of India's biggest VCs and investors. Our mentor pool is rich and varied and has distinguished people from across different fields to help with every aspect of starting-up. Our mentors include TiE, NEN, Energy Alternatives India(EAI), Samman amongst others and we are associated with VCs such as Inventus, Seeders and angel investors such as Mumbai Angels and Indian Angel Network.
We conduct our flagship event - Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) every year in January, and this is one of the largest summits of its kind in India. For GES 2012 to be held from 13th to 15th January, our theme is: " Education: Innovation & Technology". The final rounds of Empresario and Envision will be held during GES’12. If you require any more details, please visit our website: www.ecell-iitkgp.org or contact Arpit Dave | [email protected] | +918348521887