Empresario[/b] is the annual Business-plan competition of IIT, Kharagpur. Organised by the Entrepreneurship Cell of IIT Kharagpur, the competition is open to participants from across the globe under the various heads of social, product-based and service-based entries, from any category under the sun - all that a team needs to participate in Empresario[/b] is an idea!
The event consists of three stages – preliminary submission, shortlisting and mentoring, and a final presentation before a panel of judges. Teams shortlisted subsequent to the preliminary submission are helped through to develop their idea into a full-fledged Business Plan. Enormously valuable mentorship will be provided to the shortlisted teams from a mentor team that has an impeccable depth. The mentor team has quite a few distinguished people from various business fields in order to help the teams to start-up. Keeping in line with the need of the hour, the Social Sector entries will be judged separately, based on different parameters than entries under other categories.
The final few teams get a golden opportunity to pitch their ideas in front of some of India’s leading VCs and angel investors, during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit 2012, to be held at IIT Kharagpur. Winning is not all, in Empresario[/b]. A total of 1.8 Crore is at stake in the form of prize money as well as funding opportunities from various organisations such as TePP, TIETS and MSME.[/b] A rare opportunity to work with eminent personnel from some of the leading organisations of India is, in itself a huge motivation for engineering students to poke their heads in to the event. India eagerly awaits a brilliant spark from its young engineers as the prestigious competition unfolds over the next five months or so.
The questionnaire for preliminary submission can be found athttp://www.ecell-iitkgp.org/submission_detail_emp.php. To know more about Empresario[/b], log on to www.ecell-iitkgp.org.
Deadline for submission is November 10th 2011.
ENVISION[/b]
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 send a technical writeup of your product design to [email protected]
Deadline for submission is November 10th 2011.