Center for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship

Overview

Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) was envisaged by Prof. V. S. Rao, Director, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus with a vision to foster innovation-driven entrepreneurship, in alignment with BITS Pilani’s VISION 2020.

Our vision is to “Be amongst the top 3 Technology & Science institutions in India by 2015 and amongst the top 25 Technology & Science institutions in Asia by 2020. One of the imperatives to achieve our vision is “Innovation & Entrepreneurship”.

CIIE got an impetus in August 2013, when the dedicated physical infrastructure was created in the basement of the library. CIIE is a one-stop source that offers multiple services associated with entrepreneurship.

CIIE comprises of:

Innovation Cell (I-CELL) which aims to inculcate a spirit of innovation.
Technology Business Incubator (TBI) which aims to provide support for products, services or process ideas towards commercialization.
Entrepreneurship Cell(E-CELL) which aims at fostering entrepreneurial skills among the students.

Innovation cell

I-cell is to promote and support innovations across the spectrum of science and technology with application in any field."

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Technology Business Incubator

BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology, GoI, has established a Technology Business Incubator. TBI@BITS Hyd aims to provide a low cost and resource intensive sandbox where entrepreneurs can develop their product, services or process ideas towards commercialization. TBI@BITS Hyd provides office and lab space equipment, seed funding and vitally, mentorship from an international network of successful business leaders.

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