Enabler I – Entrepreneurship Enabler
Short-Term Strategic Roadmap (0–2 Years) · Institutional Development Plan (IDP)
🎯 Vision Statement
A thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that nurtures student and faculty innovation, accelerates venture creation, and embeds startup thinking across academic, research, and institutional pathways.
At a Glance
5
Focus Areas
25
Strategic Goals
0–2
Year Horizon
⏱️ 0–2 years
Short-Term Strategic Goals
25 goals across 5 focus areas driving this Enabler forward.
01
Policy Operationalization and Awareness
5 goals
- Roll out the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Policy uniformly across all campuses and institutional ecosystems.
- Conduct institutional awareness programmes, faculty workshops, entrepreneurial orientation sessions, and stakeholder engagement initiatives aligned with NISP 2019 guidelines.
- Strengthen entrepreneurship communication systems supporting policy adoption, institutional participation, and startup ecosystem awareness.
- Establish institutional governance mechanisms supporting entrepreneurship implementation, innovation coordination, and ecosystem integration.
- Promote entrepreneurship as a cross-functional institutional priority integrated with academic, research, and innovation ecosystems.
02
Student Awareness & Ideation Culture
5 goals
- Organize JAIN Entrepreneurship Festival Week (JEFW), bootcamps, hackathons, innovation competitions, and ideation programmes across campuses.
- Promote interdisciplinary student participation supporting entrepreneurial thinking, innovation culture, and startup engagement.
- Reach large-scale student participation through entrepreneurship awareness programmes and institutional innovation ecosystems.
- Strengthen early-stage idea generation ecosystems supporting creative problem-solving and innovation-oriented learning environments.
- Encourage student participation in SDG-oriented innovation challenges and National Priority Mission initiatives.
03
Startup Pipeline Development
5 goals
- Establish structured pre-incubation programmes supporting idea validation, prototype development, and entrepreneurial mentoring.
- Implement startup admission and evaluation systems supporting early-stage venture identification and ecosystem integration.
- Support student ventures through mentoring, innovation guidance, and entrepreneurial capability development frameworks.
- Strengthen startup pipeline ecosystems integrating ideation, incubation, and venture-readiness pathways.
- Evaluate and onboard high-potential student ventures into institutional incubation ecosystems annually.
04
Faculty Capacity and Research Mapping
5 goals
- Conduct Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs) on entrepreneurship, intellectual property, technology transfer, and commercialization systems.
- Identify faculty research projects with commercialization and translational innovation potential.
- Train faculty members in patent awareness, startup mentoring, research commercialization, and entrepreneurial engagement systems.
- Strengthen institutional research mapping frameworks supporting innovation identification and venture development pathways.
- Identify high-potential research projects aligned with SDGs, emerging technologies, and National Priority Missions.
05
Governance and Systems
5 goals
- Implement entrepreneurship KPI tracking systems, governance review mechanisms, and institutional reporting ecosystems.
- Establish institutional startup governance frameworks supporting ecosystem coordination and entrepreneurial accountability.
- Develop evidence-based entrepreneurial monitoring systems supporting institutional decision-making and ecosystem transparency.
- Publish annual institutional innovation and entrepreneurship impact reports supporting strategic planning and stakeholder engagement.
- Strengthen institutional coordination systems supporting startup ecosystem governance and entrepreneurial programme implementation.
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📊 Key Indicator
A thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that nurtures student and faculty innovation, accelerates venture creation, and embeds startup thinking across academic, research, and institutional pathways.
Outcome: A self-sustaining startup pipeline, stronger industry-academia venture linkages, and an institution-wide entrepreneurial culture.
Leadership Driving this Enabler
| Name & Designation | Position |
|---|---|
| Mr. Nayaz Ahmed, CEO, JAIN Incubation | Chairperson |
| Asst. Prof. Anila Bajpai, Area Chair - Entrepreneurship | Convenor |
| Dr. Sagar Gulati, Director, School of Computer Science and Information Technology | Member |
| Dr. Bhaskar Dixit, Director, Fire and Combustion Research Center, Jain University (FCRC) | Member |
| Dr. Krishna Koppa, Deputy Director, CMS B-School | Member |