Innovation & INCUBATION Cell
Udalguri College’s Innovation & Incubation Centre is a vibrant hub fostering creativity and entrepreneurship. The center offers a collaborative environment for students and aspiring entrepreneurs to develop innovative ideas into successful ventures. Through mentorship, workshops, and industry connections, the center bridges academia and industry, cultivating a culture of innovation and shaping the next generation of leaders and innovators. It serves as a pivotal platform for turning concepts into impactful ventures that contribute to societal progress.
Moreover, it also actively collaborates with numerous local entrapraneur. Through its initiative ‘Alpinia,’ an online shop dedicated to local producers, the center provides a platform for showcasing their products. This collaboration aims to support and promote regional businesses, creating a symbiotic relationship between the academic and local entrepreneurial communities. ‘Alpinia’ serves as a digital marketplace, allowing these producers to reach a wider audience while fostering economic growth in the region. This unique aspect further solidifies the center’s commitment to holistic community development and sustainable entrepreneurship.
The IIC also supports a community shopping platform Alpinia.
Vision
To provide a platform for entrepreneurship and incubating research mindset to the students of Udalguri College that encourages lucrative Business opportunities for the development of society.
Mission
- To incubate a positive mindset for innovative ideas to create employment opportunities.
- To create entrepreneurship opportunities to promote start-ups.
- To create a platform to provide necessary support and facilities for start-ups and to promote technical ventures.
Objectives
- To form a strong interaction between academia and industries by creating a dynamic start-up ecosystem.
- To create awareness among stockholders by conducting workshops, seminars etc.
- To initiate revenue-generating business following the rules of Green Chemistry.
- To provide more entrepreneurship facilities to engage more students.
Background
The Incubation and Start-up wing of Udalguri College helps launch start-ups by aspiring students and stakeholders through pre-incubation support, mentoring and infrastructural support in various thrust areas. The activities also involve coordination with various support agencies.
It promotes innovative and executable ideas from various fields including agriculture, industry, handloom, sericulture, pisciculture, piggery, tourism, mushroom cultivation, vermicompost etc. It helps students, research scholars, faculty members, and young minds of Udalguri to execute their ideas into products, processes, or services for the benefit of society and industry.
Entrepreneurship forms the backbone of the nation’s economy and to strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem, Udalguri College is working on the ideology of starting own ventures amongst Udalguri’s youth. Today’s youth need to be more inclined towards creating jobs rather than getting one. Therefore, to assist the youth to become self-employed and create employment opportunities, the college has provided support in every possible manner. Therefore, for this purpose, a full-incubation Cell was set up in Udalguri College on 2nd of March,2023.
Assam Start-up link: https://startup.assam.gov.in/
MoUs Signed:
- MoU between Udalguri College and Sericulture Office, Govt. of Assam, Udalguri District, Udalguri. Signed on 09-03-2023.
- MoU between Udalguri College and Dahalapara Dairy Cooperative Society Ltd., Dahalapara, Udalguri. Signed on 04-04-2023.
- MoU between Udalguri College and District Sports Accociation, Udalguri District, Udalguri. Signed on 11-04-2023.
- MoU between Udalguri College and Gethsemane JFMC (A Man Made Forest, Bhairabkunda), Udalguri. Signed on 02-05-2023.
- MoU between Udalguri College and Aronai Boxing Training Centre, Udalguri. Signed on 19-05-2023.
Committee of the Incubation Centre, Udalguri
|
SL.No. |
Name of Committee Members |
Designation in the College |
Designation in the Committee |
|
1 |
Dr. Luke Daimary |
Principal |
Patron |
|
2 |
Dr. Nilima Dutta |
Vice Principal |
Advisor |
|
3 |
Mr. Bipul Kumar Sarma |
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry |
Coordinator |
|
4 |
Dr. Anjan Upadhyay |
Assistant Professor, Department of English |
Member |
|
5 |
Mr. Rupam Dutta |
Assistant Professor, Department of English |
Member |
|
6 |
Mr. Sarat Ramchiary |
Assistant Professor, Department of History |
Member |
|
7 |
Mr. Agni Prasad Upadhyaya |
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry |
Member |
|
8 |
Mr. Ramendra Nath Brahma |
LDA, Udalguri College |
Member |
|
9 |
Mr. Kunal Swargiary |
Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science |
Member |
|
10 |
Mr. Pirus Basumatary |
G.S., Udalguri College Student Union |
Student Member |
|
11 |
Mr. Boloram Majumdar |
Student, B.Sc. 3rd Semester |
Student Member |
|
12 |
Mr. Akash Roy |
Student, B.Sc. 3rd Semester |
Student Member |
|
13 |
Mr. Nabarun Das |
Student, B.Sc. 1st Semester |
Student Member |