Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC)

EDC (Entrepreneurship Development Cell) was established on 7th March 2016 with a vision to bridge the gap between Industry and Academia.

The cell undertakes several activities for student development wherein the student gets corporate exposure while studying and develops a spirit of entrepreneurship.

This enables student capability enhancement as well as their alignment with Industry. This way the EDC at one stroke creates a win-win model for students as well as Industry.

Entrepreneurship development cell bridges the gap between ideas to the market product.

Entrepreneurship development cell has taken a greater responsibility to generate the entrepreneurship skills among the students and to help them to channelize their goals to become a versatile entrepreneur.

Moreover, we also give exposure of industrial sector to curious young minds to get perfect idea of market need and requirements.

EDC Supports businesses and innovators as they develop, launch, and commercialize their ideas and motivate the students to bring out their latent spirit of Entrepreneurship.

Besides the above, EDC strives to narrow the gap between industry expectations and student capabilities.

VISION

To develop “ignite” as the hub for the best Entrepreneurial and Professional Talent.

MISSION

1.)To act as an institutional mechanism for providing various services including information to budding student entrepreneurs.

2.)To create Entrepreneurial culture in the Institution.

3.)To prepare the students to face the real world business scenarios. To catalyse and promote employment opportunities.

4.) To extend necessary guidance and exposure to the students To prepare a skilled workforce conduct for taking long/short term assignments of corporate/industry.

OBJECTIVES

1.)Organizing Entrepreneurship Awareness Camps, Entrepreneurship Development Programmes.

2.)Organizing Guests Lecture, TV & Radio Talks, Seminars etc.

3.)Arranging visits to industries for prospective entrepreneurs.

4.)Conducting survey for Industries.

5.)Guiding and Assisting students on various aspects such as preparing project reports, obtaining project approvals, loans and facilities from agencies of support systems and information on various technologies.

6.)Extending necessary guidance to the trainees in obtaining approval and execution of their projects.

7.)Conducting skill development training programmes leading to self/wage employment.

8.)Providing testing, calibration, quality assurance, design, tool room, pilot plant and other facilities for Entrepreneurs besides expertise in Intellectual Property rights, Patents search, etc.

9.) Providing Student Work Force to Industries and Institutions.

10.) Providing students the professional and Industry exposure.

SCOPE

The cell would work on three levels:
1. Generating awareness

1. Industry Visits (IT/Management).
2. Panel Discussions.

2. Developing competencies

1. Workshop on Business Communication(EMAIL Writing,CV Making, Applying for a JOB)
2. Workshop on Presentation Skills (How to Present.).
3. Idea Generation Workshop.
4. Business Quiz.
5. B-Plan Competition.
6. Case Study Competition.
7. Workshop on Technological Development.
8. Taking Outsource Projects.

3. Developing attitudes

1. Motivation Talk.
2. Expert Talks.

Events Conducted under EDC

S.no	Event Date	Name	Guest Invited	Outcome
1	29 September 2016	Experts Talk on Entrepreneurship Development	Mr. Partha Neog ( Director @ Vantage Circle) Mr. Ranjeet Singh  Rai (Certified Independent Corporate Director) Mr. Anupam Dixit(Author)	Entrepreneurship Development Cell motivates the students to become  a dedicated entrepreneur .
2	25th October 2016	Business Carnival	Mr. Ranjeet Singh  Rai (Certified Independent Corporate Director) Mr. Asish Das(Director @ AKS InfoTech.)	This carnival helped our students to take hands on experience of ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
3	10th FEB 2017	IDEA GENERATION WORKSHOP	Mr. Vinay Chaddha(An Electronics Hobbyist and an Entrepreneur)	This workshop helped our students to be loaded with new Business Ideas.
4	17th  March 2017	Expert’s Talk-II on Entrepreneurship Development & Business Carnival – 1 Award Ceremony	Sharwan Kumar Aggarwal (Director @ Vimal Organics Limited )	Entrepreneurship Development Cell motivates the students to be a dedicated entrepreneur by means of such events.  Awards was given to Business Carnival Winners.
5	8th  April 2017	Business Carnival  Round-II	NA	This carnival helped our students to take hands on experience of ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
6	3rd July 2017 to 15th July 2017	Training on Web Development (Node JS, Angular JS, Cake PHP)	Mr. Akash Nagina	Ignite EDC has conducted a Training on Web Development (Node JS, Angular JS, Cake PHP)  for the MCA Students
7	28th  July  2017	Budding Entrepreneurs Workshop	Mr. Rahul Goel(English Trainer and having an experience of Entrepreneurship)	Awareness Drive/Workshop about the idea of Innovation and Start Up
8	15th  September 2017	Explore Stock Exchange with Dr. NN Pandey	Dr. NN Pandey(Financial Enthusiasts)	It was a ‘Need of Hour’ workshop conducted by our in-house Faculty Dr. NN Pandey. He told students about how the Stock Exchange works.
9	14 Oct 2017	Business Carnival: Entrepreneurship Fests	NA	Business Carnival is an Entrepreneurship Fests in which students have put on the Stalls according to their Entrepreneur Skill Set and Interest Area.
10	16th  March  2018	Workshop on Digital Marketing	Trainer from CETPA	Awareness about the SMO and SEO Process. To motivate students to become an Entrepreneur in this Field.
11	10th   Feb. 2018	Instructional Designing Workshop	MOUSUMI SAHA(Senior Subject Matter Expert and Team Lead – elearning Operations @ inurture Education Solutions Pvt. Ltd.	It was a ‘Need of Hour’ workshop conducted to let out students understand the concept of content writing and storyboarding.

Upcoming Activities and Tasks @ EDC

S.no	Event Date	Name	Topics	Outcome
1	4th August 2018	Business Plan Workshop	How to create Business Plan(Dr. Anubha Vashisht)	Business Plan Preparation
2	30,31 August & 1st September 2018	EDC Awareness Camp	To create awareness among students of Management and Computer Science courses about various facets of entrepreneurship	Identification of opportunities for entrepreneurs , Financial aspects  of Business, Creativity and business
3	1-Oct 2018	Expert’s Talk	Entrepreneurship Talk	Motivation for Entrepreneurship
4	27th October 2018	Business Carnival	Fun Activity	Students can showcase their Marketing Skills
5	8th October 2018	SDP	SDP	Introduction to new Technology
6	Ongoing Work	Incubation Centre Activities	On going Activity	Business Plan Preparation , App Development Work
7	7 Jan to 7 Feb 2018	Winter EDC Workshop	Web Designing using HTML, CSS and PHP, Web Promotion	Preparing for Business Plan Competition, Students can do small School Projects for IP Students
8	15-Mar 2018	Business Plan InterCollege Competition	Business Plan Competition	Business Plan Preparation
9	8-Feb 2018	Industry, Small Shop Visits	A Visit to small ventures like Boutique, Coaching Center, Book Stores etc.	To gain knowledge about Entrepreneurs
10	6th April 2018	Alumni’s Talk	Alumni’s Talk	Motivation for Entrepreneurship
11	According to ULLAS Dates	Business Carnival @ ULLAS	Fun Activity	Fun

EDC REPORT (2016-2017)

EDC REPORT (2017-2018)