The Government of Kerala has taken pioneering effort to bring about a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation amongst its youth. For the first time in the nation, the State had announced the landmark “Student Entrepreneurship Policy” and kept aside 1% of the budget to promote young entrepreneurs. To promote Entrepreneurship and to create an enabling policy framework for the same, the state now
plans to bring all these programs under one umbrella and will with a “startup and innovation policy”. In the view of above Kerala startup Mission formerly (Technopark Technology Business Incubation) has been elevated as the nodal agency for implementing the entrepreneurship and innovation related projects of the state government, one such programme is the Startup Boot Camp.Startup Village for Engineering colleges and KSIDC for Non-Engineering Colleges will be the implementing the Startup Boot Camp across state, while T-TBI supports them with guidance.The Government of Kerala has created the “Startup Boot camp” Program wherein it is envisaged to create a startup ecosystem in each and every college campus through active involvement of students. Boot camp is a student-focused program that will be completely run by students. Objectives of Startup Boot camp
To foster entrepreneurship, develop and encourage a spirit of innovation and a drive to follow their passion amongst the student community. Create a student friendly ecosystem within the college, favoring learning and development of all forms of creative skills
To become a platform to hone and develop leadership and entrepreneurial skills and organize seminars, workshops and formal or informal conferences covering creative and entrepreneurial faculties
To encourage innovation, upgrading R&D facilities, spearhead creative pursuits, create an atmosphere of skill-building and knowledge sharing
To promote knowledge driven and/or technology based start-up ventures by students. Through this programme Government aims to find out potential IEDCs across the state and provide them necessary support in order to enhance the entrepreneurial and innovation culture in the college including funding and mentoring support.
