The concept of sanctuary of innovation implies that there is chaos inside and order outside. Whereas the conventional incubator has order inside and chaos outside. Metaphorically speaking, SIIE offers freedom, flexibility, and frugality as watch word of creative chaos support for in situ mentoring and incubation. SIIE also helps in a knowledge network for each incubatee that is links with experts in different links in the value chain so that empathetic excellence is achieved at all levels in each entrepreneurial endeavour.
About us
Sanctuary of Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (SIIE), SRISTI-BioNEST Grambharti, Gandhinagar is one of the BIRAC incubation centres that nurtures technology and innovations from and forgrassroots level. SIIE is supporting innovation based start-ups in multidisciplinary fields like agriculture, environment, medicines, veterinary, biotechnology, microbiology, life sciences, food science, children’s creativity and grassroots innovative ideas. The incubation centre is supported by BIRAC (Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council, Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India).
Objectives of SIIE: The SRISTI BioNEST Incubator
To become a sanctuary of knowledge of the marginal people but not with a marginal mind, who have done extraordinary innovations and provided a breakthrough solution for a day to day problem in society; and supplement these with inclusive innovations from formal sector
Salient points of SIIE – SRISTI BioNEST
- The talent mobilised by SIIE – SRISTI BioNEST hails from a diverse background ranging from drop-outs, fresh graduates, farmers, local people, to newly started companies.
- It is one of the first incubator to include innovators at grassroots level, though others are not excluded.
- Educational qualification is thus not the key criteria for admission of the entrepreneurs in the SIIE-SRISTI BioNEST, though the insights about solving a real social problem frugally are.
- SIIE integrates incubation with training and research through SRISTI-Sadbhav –Sanshodhan Lab, with the help of good technical team having excellent scientific background in collaboration with knowledge providers and grassroots innovators wherever relevant.
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