(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
The Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship, Guwahati and the
Incubation and Enterprise Support Centre of the Indian Institute of
Management (IIM) Shillong signed an agreement on Friday to boost
the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the northeastern region, Trend reports citing The Print .
“The objective of this partnership is to encourage
entrepreneurship, incubation, and startups in the North Eastern
Region,” an official statement said. To support professional
development in the areas of management, entrepreneurship and skill
development, and to meet the larger demand for capacity building
and entrepreneurship promotion in the northeast, the institutes
will collaborate and exchange information and resources, it
added.
Secretary in the Ministry of Skill Development and
Entrepreneurship Rajesh Aggarwal said the northeast has tremendous
potential that is just waiting to be discovered.“This partnership
will help create an atmosphere where startups and entrepreneurs can
flourish in the region by not just supporting and encouraging the
locals but also giving them access to formal training, professional
mentorship, and the technical know-how needed to run a successful
business,” Aggarwal added. The institutes will together conduct
certified courses on entrepreneurship development and also train
startups and incubate them under the Incubation and Enterprise
Support Centre, IIM Shillong. They will also promote educational
lectures, workshops, exhibitions, and other knowledge dissemination
programmes in the region.
Both institutes will share infrastructure facilities like
laboratories, libraries, incubation centres, etc with each other
for the research work of the incubates and beneficiaries.
Faculties from both institutes will be part of mentoring,
training, workshops, and evaluation juries for the incubation
centre.
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