Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Incubation cell (EIIC)
Entrepreneurship, Innovation and incubation cell ( EIIC), JIT
Vision" To Drive visionary ideas to reality through strategic incubation and entrepreneurial empowerment" Mission statement
Our mission is to provide a supportive and dynamic ecosystem of strategic mentorship, cutting-edge resources, a vibrant incubation space and collaborative opportunities that nurtures innovation, empowers aspiring entrepreneurs, and facilitates the incubation of impactful ventures at JIT.
About EIIC cell
The Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Incubation cell (EIIC) was established to motivate students to start their own business venture instead of queuing in job market, to catalyze and promote startups, to guide and support in identifying a platform for commercialization. The cell Promote Invention, Innovation and Incubation under the mentorship of industry experts apart from the expert academicians and advances towards Strengthening Government’s Vision & Mission of innovation entrepreneurship and skill development. The EIIC enables competency development in modern engineering tools that are necessary for product design, development and manufacturing and provide students to gain insights in Industry 4.0 and other disruptive technologies. With modern equipments and the state-of art technologies, this cell ensures employability of the students in industry specific domain. The technical facility and skill- development trainings provided at the cell ensures that students get equipped with most of the perquisites that are essentially required for under graduate students for employability and placement in multi-national companies. The cell motivates and promotes scientific temper among the students and provides a platform to incubate their innovative ideas into commercially viable products. Primarily the cell’s role is to engage large number of faculty, students and staff in various innovation and entrepreneurship related activities such as ideation, problem solving, Proof of concept development, Design thinking, IPR, Project handling and management at Pre- incubation/Incubation stage, etc., so that innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem gets established and stabilized in HEIs.
Objectives
- Creating awareness among the students of the JIT and the educated unemployed youth of Nagpur regarding entrepreneurship as a career option.
- Conduct training programmes in the field of entrepreneurial skill development.
- Develop entrepreneurship related course curriculum to incorporate in management and engineering programmes.
- Provide guidance and facilities to first-time entrepreneurs during gestation.
- To explore the possibility of commercialization of some of the potential technologies developed by faculty members and students of JIT.
- To form a Technology Development group in JIT from enthusiastic passed-out students of JIT and thereby motivating for self employment.
- Facilitating the transfer of technology, commercialisation of R&D output and to create value added jobs & services
Activities 22-23
Report on session on achieving Product fit and market fit
Workshop on Entrepreneurial skill attitude and behavioral development
Students from EIIC win Entrepreneurial competitions
A visit to INCUBEIN
A workshop on Intellectual property rights management
Dr. Vandita T Shahu
In-charge EIIC
Assistant Professor ✦Department of Mechanical Engineering ✦Jhulelal institute of technology (JIT), Nagpur
Dr. Vandita T Shahu is working as Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department and looking after EIIC from last two year and working hard to make it a most vibrant cell of the institute. She herself is a role model for innovations and Entrepreneurship for the budding Engineers. She is an amateur Engineer who devotes his most of the time in practicing the Engineering concepts to solve the real time problems. This lead her to become a freelance consultant for variety of Mechanical Engineering industrial problems.
EIIC members
Sr.no | Name and Designation | Position |
1 | Shri Pramod Pampatwar | President |
2 | Dr. Narendra Bawane, Principal JIT | Chairman |
3 | Dr. Vandita Thantharate Shahu, Assistant professor- ME, JIT | Convener |
4 | Dr. Khushi Sindhi, Associate professor- ETC, JIT | Member |
5 | Prof. Imran Khan , Assistant professor- AIML, JIT | Member |
6 | Prof. Rahul Joge, Assistant professor- EE, JIT | Member |
7 | Prof. Arti Jane, Assistant professor- CSE, JIT | Member |
8 | Ms. Mobina Saifee, Assistant professor- MBA, JIT | Member |
9 | Ms. Pallavi Nawale, Assistant professor- FY, JIT | Member |
10 | Mr. Rajesh Tajane, Director, JIT | Entrepreneurial expert |
11 | Mr. Rahul Mishra , Assistant Director , MSME | Industry Expert |
12 | Mr. Shrikant Kulkarni, MCED , Nagpur | Industry Expert |
13 | Mr. Sarthak joshi , ETC, JIT | Student coordinator |
14 | Mr. Pratik Tikhe, CSE, JIT | Student coordinator |
15 | Mr. Abhay Pardhi, ME, JIT | Student coordinator |