VISION
The Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship Development centre (IIED Centre) of NIT Srinagar aims to coordinate and leverage, through Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship, an ecosystem fostering a culture of cutting edge technology making NIT Srinagar the harbinger of innovation in the state of Jammu and Kashmir in sectors of Science & Technology by offering industrial solutions with emphasis on national growth and social upliftment
MISSION
- To Promote a vibrant, innovative, and entrepreneurial environment for conducting quality research with an aim to develop knowledge economy.
- Creation and development of sustainable, globally competitive facility that contribute towards the accelerated economic growth of the region by identifying, exploring and developing regional competitiveness
- To strengthen institute-industry linkages to formulate collaborative ventures with the business community of the region in particular and nation in general
- To assist and develop new business ventures, start ups, job creation and employment generation in specific sectors that are aligned with a region’s unique areas of opportunity
OBJECTIVES OF THE CENTRE
- Entrepreneurship Development through incubation and training
- Strive for development and deployment of scientific/ technological solutions to solve confronting challenges in the areas like energy conservation, water management, waste management, sanitation control, development of local technologies, ergonomic design, and so forth
- Identify engineering problems of diversified nature where research and innovation can help to find smart solutions
- Operate to provide institutional support in scouting, spawning, sustaining and scaling up Grass root innovative ideas
- Provide incubation support as and when required to develop innovations
- Mutual interaction with industry(local & national)
- Skill development and service sector support
- Provide IRP platform to obtain patents