Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 23: An awareness cum workshop on ‘Technology Business Incubator’ for start-ups and Entrepreneurs of Union Territory of Jammu & Kashmir was jointly organized today by the Directorate of Industries and Commerce, Jammu and Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine- Technology Business Incubator (IIIM-TBI) at the conference Hall of Nehru Udhyog Bhawan.
Director, Industries & Commerce, Jammu Anoo Malhotra, while inaugurating the workshop asked all the stake holders to take benefit of the tech-based incubator which is located in the heart of Jammu.
While welcoming all the stake holders from different fields, Subah Mehta, General Manager, District Industries Centre, Jammu highlighted the benefits of such workshops conducted in recent & past by the Department.
The Coordinator IIIM-TBI informed the gathering about the state of the art infrastructural facilities, scientific-intellectual support and business ecosystem offered by the IIIM-Technology Business Incubator to the potential budding entrepreneurs of Jammu & Kashmir.
Dr. D. Srinivasa Reddy, Director CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Jammu, in his message, expressed a strong need to create an entrepreneurship mind set in the J&K region as this place has a huge potential for development. He appreciated the support extended by the Directorate of Industries & Commerce by collaborating with IIIM- Technology Business Incubator (TBI) as such kind of awareness workshops will definitely bring out the newer ideas and would benefit the start-ups, entrepreneurs and the public in large.
Startup companies, industrialists and entrepreneurs of the Jammu primarily dealing with biotech and life sciences were sensitized about the facilities of IIIM-TBI & incubation support for new business ideas. During the programme, a detailed presentation on “Technology Business Incubator” in Jammu region was given by Dr Saurabh Saran, Er Anil Kumar Katare both senior scientist CSIR-IIIM and Er Ankush Varma Coordinator IIIM-TBI.