Events & Seminars

A Workshop on Entrepreneurship Development Programme was organized by National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), Noida from 18th - 20th December, 2014 at their campus. The workshop was designed exclusively for faculty and was attended by over 50 delegates from across the country. Dr. Ritu Soryan, Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies attended the workshop as delegate a from Dronacharya Group of Institutions, Greater Noida.

The key speakers of the event included Mr. Anurag Mittal, Guest Faculty, NIESBUD, Mr. Kumar Manu, Manager, SBI, Mr. Vivek Prakash, General Manager, CSR Jubilant Bhartia Foundation and Prof. Jayaseelan Ganesan NSIC Ex-Executive Director, presently working in IIT Kanpur. The program commenced with introduction of the guest speakers to audience by Dr. D.K Singh, Senior Consultant, NIESBUD and presentation of bouquet to the guest speakers by programme co-coordinator.

Mr. Anurag Mittal delivered the keynote address on Entrepreneurship Development Programme (EDP).During his address he shared with the audience that simply amazed by the quality and scale of startup companies being launched in India in the last few years, top Silicon Valley experts have said that next decade is going to be "golden era" of Indian entrepreneurship. "Culmination of cloud, internet bandwidth, big data and mobility, I think has spawned the golden age for India," he asserted.

Mr. Kumar Manu presented the possibility and modalities of receiving funding from various government agencies for entrepreneurial ventures. He informed the audience that the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research (DSIR), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India runs a very interesting program aimed at technology entrepreneurs called PRISM. Via PRISM's Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP), DSIR offers grants for individual innovators and budding entrepreneurs to demonstrate proof of concept and/or prototypes of novel ideas.