Entrepreneurship incubators

During my College days here in Mumbai (just a few years ago) I was glad to see in the last year that something started moving in an Entrepreneurship cell. It was perhaps not very much: I remember going with it to visit an Entrepreneur in Mahim and perhaps a few other things were organised. But it was the beginning of something which I hope would expand greatly.

And now I am happier to see that it has grown quite a bit. In fact, this week they have had a wonderful event which I hope has a lot of success. Unfortunately, I got tied up with work and won't be able to attend any of the sessions (as I had said I would), but I am sure they will be very well conducted and a wonderful help for the to-be Entrepreneurs coming out of Engineering Colleges. This of course, was part of the E-Week celebrations that have been going on across the country.

At CRCE (my College) they had the following events:

9th Feb: Seminar on how to make a business plan.
10th Feb: The College Chef Competion
11th Feb: Business Quiz Competition

Also, today I read another interesting piece of news, the Science and Technology Minister Prithviraj Chavan said yesterday that "Every university have to have a incubator,", referring to the business incubators that the Government is going to start supporting across the country, aiming at increasing the number of entrepreneurs.

He said:
"There are over 5,000 incubators in the world. Of them, nearly 1,400 are in North America. Over 1,000 are there in China. Their number is only 40 in India,"

Source: Press Trust of India