NIDHI-EIR Programme

News:
•    A brochure featuring Entrepreneurs in Residence (EIR) under the National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations (NIDHI) programme was launched by Dept. of Science and Technology (DST).

About NIDHI-EIR Programme:
•    DST has announced a National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations (NIDHI) is an umbrella programme for nurturing ideas and innovations into successful startups.
•    EIR programme is one of the programs introduced under NIDHI to inspire the best talents to be entrepreneurs, to minimise the risk involved in pursuing start-ups, and to partially set off their opportunity costs of high paying jobs.
•    It provides tremendous opportunities for innovative entrepreneurs to expand their networks and get critical feedback on their ventures in order to promote their entrepreneurial career goals and aspirations.

Objectives
•    To encourage graduating student to take to entrepreneurship by providing support as a fellowship.
•    To provide a prestigious forum for deserving and budding entrepreneurs to pursue their ventures without any additional risks involved in technology-based businesses.
•    To create, nurture and strengthen a pipeline of entrepreneurs for incubators.
•    To make pursuing entrepreneurship related to a technology business idea more attractive among options available career options.
•    To enable the creation of new startups by entrepreneurs and significant progress towards raising funding or investment.