Entrepreneurship Cell

Entrepreneurship Cell [E-Cell], Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur aims at fostering the spirit of entrepreneurship among college students in India and nurturing young people with bright ideas. E-Cell boasts to be one of the most active organizations in India - with incubation of more than 15 start-ups from IIT Kharagpur itself within its three years of inception.
IIT Kharagpur continues to be India’s cradle for technology, innovation and thus Venture Incubation due to new venture support services (Science and Technology Entrepreneurs’ Park (STEP), Global Ventures Lab in association with UC Berkeley and University of Jyvaskyla, International Business (Wales) .

Entrepreneurship Cell is headed by Prof. Partha Pratim Chakraborty (Dean, SRIC) and Prof. Dhrubes Biswas (Prof-In-Charge, Entrepreneurship &Incubation Programs, SRIC).

We have been extensively covered by Times of India, Business Standard, The Telegraph, Economic Times (http://ecell-iitkgp.org/coverage/) and others in the past and also received mention in the India Review report published by the Indian Embassy for the US. >>Click here to view the Report

Our annual flagship event, the Entrepreneurship Summit [E-Summit] {Jan 10th,11th 2010}, is one of the biggest entrepreneurial platforms in India, for academicians, new-age entrepreneurs, eminent business personalities, venture capitalists and the students to gather at one place and share their entrepreneurial endeavors and experiences, and to pledge to take entrepreneurship in India to greater scales. It witnesses active participation from places strewn far and wide across the nation. It hosts varieties of guest lectures by distinguished speakers, panel discussions, focused workshops and final rounds of all our popular competitions {B-plan competition, case study competition, social entrepreneurship challenge, product design competition}.

Annual Competitions:
• CONCIPIO : in-house Business Plan Competition
• ENVISION : The Product-Design competition
• PENSEZ : The Case-Study competition
• ECLAIREZ : The Social Entrepreneurship Challenge
• NEGOCIO : Web based b-plan competition
• CLEANTECH : Clean technology oriented b-plan competition

To promote college start-ups, E-cell was responsible for yet another initiative last year called the Deferred Placement Program (DPP) which empowers any student of the campus to opt out of placements and try their hands at entrepreneurship, failing which they can return and sit for on-campus placements after 2 years.

Guest Lectures in the past

 Dominique Trempont – On the Board of Directors of three multinational companies {3com,Finisar and Energy Recovery Inc}.Worked with Steve Jobs as the CFO of NeXT

 Vinod Dham - Popularly known as the father of the Pentium processor. Presently, he is the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Silicon Spice, a communications technology development firm.

 Mr. Anand Sen -VP Flat Products , Tata Steel

 Sunil Handa – Serial Entrepreneur and Visiting Faculty at IIM Ahemdabad

 Sanjeev Bhikchandani – CEO of Naukri.com

 Arjun Malhotra – Co founder, HCL technologies with Mr. Shiv Nadar. Currently the CEO of Headstrong; a US based IT consulting company.

 Dr. K. C. Chakrabarty- Deputy Governor of the Reserve Company of India,and former CMD of Punjab national Bank

 Rashmi Bansal - The author of ‘Stay Hungry Stay Foolish’, Rashmi Bansal is a writer, an entrepreneur and a youth expert. In a country where selling 10,000 copies is considered a ‘bestseller’, 100,000 copies of the book have been sold in just 9 months of its release.

 Sramana Mitra – US-based Strategy Consultant and Forbes Columnist

Entrepreneurship Awareness Drive

Sent by ANKIT NARAYAN on 06 November 2009, 06:12AM

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• Problem Statement : Innovative Carbon Financing for clean development at the BoP
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• Ian Fisk wrote (3 months ago):

  The William James Foundation has announced 8 competitions that together provide $100,000 in cash and in kind support for sustainable entrepreneurs. Entrants can be of any age or from anywhere in the world. First round deadline is December 4th. Details at: www.williamjamesfoundation.org/press.

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• ANKIT NARAYAN wrote (5 months ago):

  Thinking green!! Here's is something that may interest you.
  Cleantech Challenge is a clean technology oriented B-plan competition organized by Entrepreneurship Cell, IIT Kharagpur. Its uniqueness lies in the fact that it is the first of its kind in India.
  Over the past few years, there has been an increasing awareness of the need and importance of finding ways to reduce mankind's negative ecological impact. Huge investments are being made in this industry and that means plenty of start-up opportunities. Keeping this in mind, E-Cell IIT Kharagpur has taken the initiative of conducting a Clean tech business plan competition to help accelerate the process of turning a budding idea into a fully-fledged functioning company.
  Register at our site to send in your entries:
  http://ecell-iitkgp.org/competitions/Cleantech/overview/
  Incubation money worth 5 million INR can be raised.

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• Subhendu Panigrahi wrote (1 year ago):

  thanks ...

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• shivram jadav wrote (1 year ago):

  guys....im a 2008 passout from kgp,ecell is doin a gr8 job....kudos 2 ecell.....

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