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TVS Electronics Director Gopal Srinivasan having a word with Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Vice-Chancellor
P Radhakrishnan at the Inaugural function of innovator identification Camp - 2006 in Chennal on Tuesday. (From left)
Advisor and Head, NSTEDB, H K Mittal, and VIT Pro-Chancellor GV Sampath are also seen - Express
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
Chennai, Sept 26:
An innovator identification camp conducted by the Technology Business Incubator - Vellore Institute
of Technology (Deemed University) (TBI-VIT) was inaugurated by Gopal Srinivasan, Director, TVS Ele
ctronics, here on Tuesday. The camp would identify 15 entrepreneurs/ innovators from around
300 expected participants and offer them complete support through an accelerated incubation process.
It would provide innovators a forum to translate their dreams into ventures. Apart from the camp at Chennai,
one would be held in Coimbatore on October 7. "Indian entrepreneurship is being celebrated world over and in
India entrepreneurship is the life line with around three million business establishments functioning," said
Gopal Srinivasan. An entrepreneur should have a mind which is the idea,incubation,eco-system,a body which is the team which can
work for him with dedication and a heart which is nothing but the passion for what he is doing.
If you are not hugely passionate about something, don't even try doing it, he added.
According to G V Sampath, pro-chancellor, VIT, "When you start looking change as an opportunity for growth you
can step into your own business; when you look change as a threat you are bound to look for a secure job."
He added, only attitude makes you to reach great altitudes in a short span of time. VIT-TBI has been selected
by infoDev (an agency founded and supported by the World Bank) to execute a project under its incubator development
initiative.
The programme is to promote entrepreneurship, incubating start up ventures and offering technology
development services to firms. Funded jointly by the Department of Science and Technology and Vellore Institute of
Technology, TBI has state of the art machinery, equipment, computing facilities,
communication networks, start up
friendly infrastructure, individual incubation cells with common resource sharing arrangements thus supporting
budding entrepreneurs.
According to H K Mittal, Advisor and Head, National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship
Development Board (NSTEDB), entrepreneurship, be it small or large, is celebrated all over the world.
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