SHILLONG: NEHU has decided to start an Incubation Centre as a supplementary promotional activity of National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIFR).
In this regard, the university will be holding a brain storming workshop with experts, successful business leaders and academicians and intellectuals for ideas and proposals. A statement issued here said that the Incubation Centre will provide an ecosystem for social start-ups, offer guidance, mentoring, physical space and network for funding and value based collaboration for incubation of novel ideas by active promotion of start-ups.
Further, the centre will offer active incubation support to the new proposed ventures for a period of one to two years, to encourage and support the start-ups ventures to become independent and self-supporting over the period, the statement said. The centre also proposes to enter into a MoU with the state government through the active partnership with Meghalaya Institute of Entrepreneurship. Ideas and proposals which have potential for incubation and their conversion into social entrepreneurship, new business ventures can be sent to [email protected] by July 24 so that the same can be included in the workshop which will be arranged shortly, the statement added.