Projects: Technology Startups, Entrepreneurs, Business Incubation Pune

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SUMMARY MAP: Programs, services, resources

Support/ Funding

The Venture Center gratefully acknowledges support from the following agencies/ organizations/ persons:

Support from	Support for	Nature of support
National Chemical Laboratory	TBI project NCL- Technology and Entrepreneurship Club NCL Academy	Resource persons as mentors Ready to use space and facilities In-kind support
National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India	TBI Project	Equipment for lab block Recurring costs of TBI on deficit financing mode (1 April 2008 – 31 March 2013)
National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India	Venture Center Library	One time grant for initial collection (1 April 2008 – 31 March 2009)
Dr Keki Gharda, Founder Gharda Chemicals	NCL-Technology and Entrepreneurship Club	One time gift to NCL-TEC corpus (Sept 2008)
British Council	Workshop “Nanotechnology: Making the leap to commercialization”	Support for the running cost of the event including bringing-in UK resource persons (Jan 2008)
Reliance Industries Limited	Workshop “Nanotechnology: Making the leap to commercialization”	Sponsorship for the event Surplus has been directed to the VC Library (Jan 2008)
Technology Development Board, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India	Seed Fund	Rs 100 lakh corpus for seed support system for startups
Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India	Support Grant	Rs 4-8 lakh support grant for micro & small enterprises
Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME), Government of India	IP facilitation center	Intellectual property-related programs & services such as patent landscaping, IP creation & protection, IP commercialization, market databases, IP books, etc.
NCL Research Foundation	Internships	Internships to learn & implement commercialization of technology, primarily via spin-offs

Events ( Calendar)

(20 May 2010) 8th NCL Innovations Seminar: Prof. Rishikesha T. Krishnan

(30 Dec 2009) NCL - University of Toronto Workshop on Accelerating Innovation

(30 Nov 2009) RSC-CSIR Chemical Sciences Innovation Symposium

(1 Oct 2009) 7th NCL Innovations Seminar: Dr. Gopakumar G. Nair

Announcements

(05 Aug 2010) Accelerated Commercialisation of Technology and InnoVation (ACTIV) workshops

(27 Apr 2010) Press Release: Soft launch of IP Facilitation Center for MSMEs

(26 Apr 2010) Soft launch of "Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre" (IPFACE)

(15 Apr 2010) Note to press on Mr. S. Basu

In the news

(March 29,2010, Indian Express)National Chemical Lab's mentor programme for children till August (PDF, 302 Kb)

(February 13,2010, ET-NOW)Venture Center and two of our incubatees featured on ET-NOW

(January 22,2010, IE/TOI/ET)Scientific Support for Technology Entrepreneurs

(January 11,2010,IE/TOI/Sakal) Science Talks for School Students (PDF, 444 Kb)