‘It takes a community to raise a start-up’
MP Tejasvi Surya visits NSRCEL at IIMB to understand what it takes to create an impactful and vibrant entrepreneur-centric ecosystem
23 August, 2019: A stimulating discussion on what it takes to create a startup ecosystem as vibrant as NSRCEL at IIMB, the challenges faced by early-stage incubators, and the interventions required from policymakers marked the three-hour discussion between NSRCEL Chair Prof. Venkatesh Panchapagesan, Angel Investor and Mentor Nagaraja Prakasam, NSRCEL COO Rajiv Sawhney, and MP Tejasvi Surya on August 23 (Friday) at IIM Bangalore’s start up and innovation centre, NSRCEL.
The dapper MP, with his “can-do” style, was all ears as Vikyath from NSRCEL made a presentation on the activities of the centre and highlighted the impact it has created over the years in terms of nurturing startups, mentoring them, building partnerships with Government and corporations, and building the entrepreneurial ecosystem in not just Bangalore, the start-up capital of India, but in the rest of the country as well.
From ways in which one can engage with young engineering students to solve India’s many social challenges to sharing templates for setting up innovation centres across states under the ‘Start-up India’ umbrella and working on the idea of a Social Stock Exchange, the academicians from IIMB and the Member of Parliament enjoyed a fruitful discussion and charted the way ahead for collaboration.
Tejasvi Surya’s visit culminated in a walkthrough of NSRCEL and a meeting with ventures being incubated currently at the centre.
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