Uddyam –PAHSUI Foundation (Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University Incubation Center)
The Incubation Centre at the Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University is an institution, to support scientific and social entrepreneurship where the students, during and after graduation and post-graduation, get guidance, mentoring, physical space and network for funding and value-based collaboration / MoUs.
Incubation Centre promotes business and social start-ups by guiding them right from the stage when scientific, business and social problems are articulated, and the possible solutions are proposed, to ensure that these ventures create impactful and sustainable solutions at appropriate scale. The process also provides opportunities for experimentation and exploration of newer products, solutions and methods.
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Vision: To Create Entrepreneurial and Innovational Ecosystem
Mission: To develop entrepreneurs through the ecosystem of entrepreneurship and Innovation, generate employment causing social impact and create Intellectual Property.
The objectives of the Incubation Centre are:
1. To create of an ecosystem for society, industry start-ups,
2. To bring impact in social, economic and ecological environment,
3. To create knowledge through innovative ideas leading to sustainable product development
The major activities of the Incubation Centre are selection of ventures, mentoring, seed funding, infrastructure support, review of ventures and resource network development. It will encourage and support the startups to become an independent and self-sustaining entity. In this way during this period, the ventures establish the efficient venture model and gradually become competent and eligible for formal funding support from donors, humanitarians and impact investors. The incubation center will be effective in controlling the migration of highly skilled young generation willing to explore the entrepreneurship towards urban areas.
On January 17, 2018, the Government of Maharashtra approved the Maharashtra State Innovative Startup Policy 2018 with the vision of transforming Maharashtra by catalysing the growth of an innovation-driven entrepreneurial ecosystem to achieve wholesome and inclusive socioeconomic development.
Business incubation of early-stage enterprises has been globally recognized as important tool for economic development and job creation.
The Maharashtra State Innovation Society (MSInS) proposes to establish business incuators across the state.
To build a vibrant startup ecosystem by establishing (and expanding) a state-wide network of business incubator-in collaboration with industry and academia-to foster the startup ecosystem and to enable enterpreneurs to succeed in their pursuits