Entrepreneurship Development Cell for Incubation and Innovation (EDCII)
The institute has established an entrepreneurship development cell for innovations and incubation (EDCII) to organize the entrepreneurship talk/seminars and nurture startups. Currently, EDCII has incubated two companies on campus. The first company named AGRESA deals in aggrotech business. The company grows and sells fresh mushrooms with the help of a novel evaporator cooler designed and developed in EDCII. The company plans to undertake other agricultural products like aquaponic farming for medicinal plants etc. The second company named METAPODS deals with manufacturing and selling of exotic resin-based furniture. The other ongoing projects in EDCII are development of mushroom leather, silk farming in small polyhouses, aquaponic farming for medicinal plants, etc. Apart from startups and projects, EDCII has also conducts many seminars, talks and alumni interactions for training the students involved in entrepreneurship and innovations.
Ongoing startups
- Creating microenvironment for silk farming
- Vegan leather production
- Charcoal making by waste material
- Mushroom mycelium based packaging
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