Effective Mentorship Program – Incubation Center

Mentoring is regarded as the foundation of all incubation related activities. The growing startup eco-system in India has cleared the path for many business incubators in academia, corporates, investors, and other stakeholders. Technology business incubators (TBI) supported by various government agencies and corporates too have witnessed a steep increase so as to cater to the growing needs of innovators in the lab stage

Startups: Growth Framework

An HBR article in May 1983 categorised the stages of growth experienced by small businesses. It also placed emphasis on the competencies essential for organisations to build sustainable and profitable businesses. This is inclusive of the founder/s’ leadership traits that plays a crucial role at every stage. The framework was researched and developed over 4 decades ago and remains relevant today, and will be so in the days to come.

Financial Risk Management for Startups

The Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) debacle has brought out many lessons for the Indian startups and other stakeholders in the startup ecosystem. While the government in the US has ring fenced the issue, it has thrown many alerts to doing business.

SINE’s commitment to Accelerating Innovations and Entrepreneurship through CSR

Technology Business Incubators (TBI) play a pivotal role in the journey of early-stage startups, especially during the product development and early deployment stages. SINE’s role in the journey, more particularly as an implementation agency deploying CSR commitments on behalf of corporates, has indeed been prolific to the startup ecosystem. The product development and customer development stages are crucial junctures in determining the future of startups and, often pose a challenge for the founders. Their progress is stymied by recondite such as time or cost overruns caused by reasons beyond their control. Grants and other monetary support offered by other relevant agencies, though facilitative, may be fallible in averting crisis such as cash flow mismatch. In such circumstances, CSR funding bolsters startups immensely.

EMERGING INDIGENOUS TECHNOLOGIES @ SINE IIT Bombay

During the year 2022 Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE) supported many passionate innovators/startups working in deep technologies that could potentially create a significant social, environmental, and global impact. These innovations cater to a spectrum of emerging sectors including the likes of – Healthtech, SpaceTech, Climate, CleanTech, Industry 4.0, etc. Here is a glimpse of noteworthy technologies and associated research conducted by their innovators.

Responsible Business Processes

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) Chairperson recently issued a statement saying, “any business that operates on the black box model that cannot be audited or validated will not be permitted”, suggesting, a model constituting facets of sufficient transparency and disclosures would be acceptable. The competition watchdog of India – Competition Commission of India (CCI), addressing similar concerns, recently imposed monetary penalties on a few new-age economy companies citing anti-competitive behaviour. Vide the recently elicited orders from the CCI, these companies have been directed to rectify their market behavior so as to maintain healthy & fair competition by ceasing any tendencies that may monopolize the market conditions.