FUNCTIONS OF ENTERPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT CELL

• To organise faculty development programmes, entrepreneurship development programmes, and awareness camps in the area for the benefit of people in sales and trading (S&T).

• To create and implement entrepreneurship development curricula at several levels, including degree and diploma programmes at the parent university and other institutions in the area.

• To carry out research and surveys to find business prospects (particularly in S&T areas and service sector).

• To advise and support aspiring entrepreneurs on a variety of topics, including writing project reports, getting project approvals, loans and facilities from support system organisations, learning about technology, etc.

• To plan seminars, TV & radio talks, guest lectures, and other events to advance and expand S&T-based entrepreneurship.

• To schedule industry visits for potential business owners;

• To provide appropriate assistance and escortservices to the trainees in getting their projects approved and carried out.

• To serve as a regional information hub for information on markets, technology, business possibilities, procedures, etc. by building and maintaining pertinent data bases.

• To offer entrepreneurs facilities such as testing, calibration, quality assurance, design, tool rooms, pilot plants, and other things in addition to knowledge of intellectual property rights, patent searches, etc.

• To offer counsel to failing businesses and help the owners recover them.

• To run training programmes for skill development that lead to wage or self-employment.