Entrepreneurship Development Centre
Entrepreneurship Development Centre
Vision
Creation of first generation entrepreneurs with rigorous and free environment where budding entrepreneurs can pursue training, high-end education, and mentorship in order to be a successful Entrepreneur to produce effective businesses by marshaling the resources of Dr.MGR University and the surrounding community and motivate them how to succeed, grow, and thrive.
Mission
Promoting “Job seekers” into “Job Creators”
Objective
Entrepreneurship is a mindset that can be developed by any professionals who aspires to become an employer. The increasing demand and recognition for Innovation and Entrepreneurship for ensuring the welfare of the society and economic growth have motivated this great leap forward to promote the Entrepreneurship Development Cell. With proper education, Entrepreneurship can be inculcated into the minds of young professionals. Thus this Cell aims to foster Techno-entrepreneurship more systematically and comprehensively with a focus on incubating in all ventures through technology interventions. The idea behind is to promote and develop high-end entrepreneurship and assist budding entrepreneurs to incubate their technology venture. The following are the major objectives of our EDP Cell.
- Fostering the entrepreneurial spirit.
- Creation of Technology Based incubatee on continuous basis.
- Facilitating Transfer of Technology.
- Encouraging entrepreneurs to promote Small & Medium Enterprises.
- Commercialization of R&D products and processes.
- Facilitating specialized services such as Patenting, Copyright, arrangement of Venture Capital.
- Helping towards marketing of Products & Processes
With this mindset our university is conducting several courses related to Entrepreneurship development. Aspiring Entrepreneurs can study the following entrepreneurship courses as University Electives offered by Department of Management Studies.
- Micro & Macro Organization Behavior
- Operations Research
- Frame work of Business plan
- Supply chain Management
- Strategic Management
- Human Recourse Management
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Micro Finance
- Micro Enterprise Development & Management
- Disaster Management
- Project Management
- Accounting and Financial Management
- Business Economics and International Trade
Useful Govt. Links
Now entrepreneurship career is gradually picking up in India, Some of the institutions are conducting Management Courses in India for Aspiring Entrepreneurs which listed below:
- Entrepreneurship Development of India (EDI), Ahmadabad
- Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore
- Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
- Management Development Institute, Gurgaon
- National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD), New Delhi
- FICCI, New Delhi
- Small Industries Service Institute, New Delhi
- National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development, New Delhi
- ASEED and Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), New Delhi.
Entrepreneurship Development Programs conducted:
| S.No | Year | Event / Course Name | Description of Activity | Speaker Name With Designation and Industry Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2010 | E WEEK 2010 - Be an Entrepreneur for a Day. | Entrepreneurship Week - A week of activities to popularize the concept of entrepreneurship | 1) Raj Shankar - CEO, Ichiban Consulting 2)Harihara Subramanian - MD - Mayura Automation Pvt Ltd |
| 2 | Strategies to build an E CELL | Team Meeting | Mrs.Sangeetha,E Cell Faculty | |
| 3 | Membership Drive | Talks in all Departments | Ms. Sridevi, E Cell Faculty | |
| 4 | Faculty Meet on teaching Skills | Talks in all Departments | Mrs. Sangeetha, E Cell Faculty | |
| 5 | CURTAIN RAISER | Introduction of the topic to students | Ms. Vishnu Priya, NEN Consultant | |
| 6 | KICK START ARIZON | Meeting Entrepreneurs | Mr. Selvam Raja, IP Consultant | |
| 7 | Workshop on "Idea Generation and opportunity Evaluation. | Workshop for Engineering students | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan | |
| 8 | 2011 | IDEAS FOR INDIA | Competitions on Technopreneurship | 1) Mr. Naresh Gupta, Former Chief Electoral Officer of Tamil Nadu 2) Mr. Shashank Rajurkar 3) Ms. Thenmozhi Shanmugam, Manager, Rural Technology Business Incubator, IIT Madras |
| 9 | Workshop on "Idea Generation and opportunity Evaluation. | Workshop for MBA students | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan | |
| 10 | Hosts for Mentor Session | Workshop for Mentors for Entrepreneurs | ||
| 11 | 2012 | 6 Days Certificate curse in Entrepreneurship | Experiential learning Course | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan |
| 12 | E WEEK - INVENT THE FUTURE | 1) Green Walk - Campaign to popularize the concept of Green Entrepreneurship 2) Business idea competition 3) Be an entrepreneur for a day | 1) Dr.V.Sumantran, Vice President, Ashok Leyland 2) P. Dev Anand, Director Chempure Technologies 3) Mr. Raghunathan, Solkar Engineering | |
| 13 | Faculty workshop on Business Models and Plans | Workshop for Faculty in Chennai | 1) Raj Bhat 2) Mrs. Vasanthi Venugopal, NEN | |
| 14 | Talk on LEADERSHIP | Talks to core committee members | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan | |
| 15 | Speak to an Entrepreneur | Meeting Entrepreneurs | Mr. K. K. Tamilarasan, Entrepreneur, "My Story" | |
| 16 | Workshop on Idea Generation | Workshop with I year students | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan and Mr. Vijay Samuel | |
| 17 | Workshop on Automotive Engineering | Skill generation workshop | Mr. Paramjeet Gill, Paramtek Technologies | |
| 18 | Introduction to an Entrepreneurship | Introductory talk | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan | |
| 19 | 2013 | Workshop on Entrepreneurship Skills | Workshop for I year students | 1) Mr. S. P. Vijayraghavan, VIT University, chennai 2) Mrs. Swathika, VIT University, Chennai 3) Dr. Rosy, MOP Vaishnav 4) Mrs. Mangalam Balasubramaniam, Social Entrepreneur and Trustee, Exnora Green Pammal 5) Mr. Rahul Vijaykumar from Dream.in 3) Dr. Rama Vaidyanathan |
| 20 | Spreading the spirit of Entrepreneurship at Schools | Workshop (50 rupee exercise) | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan and Mr. J. Arun kumar | |
| 21 | E WEEK 2013 - INNOVATE FOR INDIA - BE AN ENTREPRENEUR FOR A DAY | Experiential learning | 1) Dr. R. Mahadevan, Director, India Pistons Ltd 2) Mr. Kirubashankar, Entrepreneur 3) Mr. Gowri Shankar, Director, Take Solutions | |
| 22 | Workshop on Strategic Planning . Identifying Vision and Mission of your Entrepreneurial Venture | Workshop for core committee students | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan | |
| 23 | Talk to and Entrepreneur and Workshop on idea Generation | Talk and workshop with 2nd and 3rd year of Phase I, Phase II and Thai Mookambigai Polytechnic College | Mr. Sameer Bharat Ram, M D Brand muni Consulting and A workshop was conducted by Asst. Prof. Arun Kumar | |
| 24 | Talk to and Entrepreneur and Workshop on idea Generation | Talk and workshop with B.Tech. 3rd year of Phase II | Mr. Bharat T. Rameash, Director , You $ I Digital and A workshop was conducted by Asst. Prof. Arun Kumar | |
| 25 | An eye opener on entrepreneurship | encouraging the entrepreneurial mindset among student of the polytechnic college | Prof. Dr. RamaVaidyanathan, Asst. Prof. Arun Kumar and Asst Prof Vijaya | |
| 26 | Workshop on Innovation to incubation | Encourage innovative thinking | Dr. Rama Vaidyanathan, Prof. Vijayaraghavan, VIT Chennai AND Dr. K.Subramaniam, CEO Powergear Pvt. Ltd. | |
| 27 | Faculty Development Program | Academic Staff College of the University to encourage innovative thinking among faculty | Dr. Uma Rajaram, Dean Engg. & Tech. Dr. Rama Vaidyanathan, Prof. Ganesan and Asst Prof. Arun Kumar | |
| 28 | Workshop on Innovation to incubation | Focused on design thinking methods and students made prototypes of students ideas | Dr. Rama Vaidyanathan and Prof. Vijayaraghavan, VIT Chennai | |
| 29 | Design thinking workshop | Students designed prototypes for their innovative ideas | Dr. Rama Vaidyanathan | |
| 30 | Session of meeting entrepreneurs | Students learnt about the various innovative products of Mr. Kannan and how he succeeded in his efforts. | Mr. Kannan, CEO Fractal Foundation | |
| 31 | E Leader workshop | Five E Leaders of our University attended the E Leader workshop | Ms. Vishnu Priya, NEN Consultant | |
| 32 | An eye opener on entrepreneurship | Nine E Cell students of our University attended the half day workshop organized at VIT University | Mr. Vijayanand, Founder and CEO of the Startup Centre. |
