In order to cater to the rising demand of faculties and students working on innovative projects and to meet the guidelines of the New Education Policy (NEP) 2020, a Centre for Entrepreneurship Development , IPR, Innovation & Incubation christened Udyog was launched at Sister Nivedita University (SNU), Kolkata.
Objectives of Udyog:
- Identify potential talents for creative innovations
- Foster entrepreneurial traits and behaviours in the next generation of young people with the aid of appropriate instruction and professional guidance.
- Enhance knowledge and skill of entrepreneurs through several classroom coaching programmes and training.
- Strengthen and increase the number of entrepreneurs.
- Tie-up with industries and similar centres of various other institutions
- Develop and implement a variety of programmes to promote entrepreneurship in rural communities
- Encourage and assist incubatees in starting their startups and new enterprises through Innovation Centres
- Provide assistance in getting patents, legal advice, preparing business plans and funding
Recently, Udyog organised a workshop in association with the Patent Information Centre, West Bengal State Council of Science and Technology & Biotechnology. Dr Mahuya Hom Choudhury, nodal officer, Paramita Saha, scientist B, Patent Information Centre, West Bengal State Council of Science & Technology and Biotechnology and Sitanath Mukhopadhyay, assistant director of MSME DFO, Government of India were present. Dr Hom Choudhury inaugurated the IPR Cell at Udyog. An Incubathon – a student innovative projects exhibition was also held in the presence of Prof (Dr) Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay, vice chancellor and Ina Bose, director-industry relations of SNU. The primary objective of the session was to create awareness about patent and IPR rules and regulations. On the occasion of World Entrepreneurs Day, a talk session was organised by Udyog with Arijit Bhattacharyya, founder of Virtuallnfocom, a young promising entrepreneur from rural Bengal to share his entrepreneurial journey with the students.