Dr. Shashi Tharoor inaugurated the ‘I am an Entrepreneur’ Campaign

Posted on August 22th, 2009 in Uncategorized) by news | 0 Comments »

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IMG_5318Union Minister for State External Affairs, Govt of India Dr.Shashi Tharoor flagged off the ‘I am an Entrepreneur Campaign’ from Technopark on August 21, 2009.  Ms. Sheela Thomas IAS, Principal Secretary, Kerala State presided over the official inaugural session. Prof. Jyothi John, Hon Chief Editor, TechnoFIRST and Mr.Haroon, Business Head- AIRCEL, Mr. Sanjay Vijayakumar, CEO , MobME were present for the function.  Technopark CEO- Mr. Mervin Alexander welcomed the Chief guest and Mr.KCC Nair, CFO and Programme Co-ordinator New Initiatives Technopark gave away the vote of thanks.

The campaign, initiated by Technopark-TBI/TUC, in association with Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR),  executed by TechnoFIRST Magazine and sponsored by AIRCEL  will be visiting all the engineering colleges and selected arts and science colleges across Kerala. The campaign has its sole intention as to identify and promote entrepreneurial talents in the state, especially from student level.

Dr.Shashi Tharoor after lighting the lamp pointed out the fact that Non Resident Malayalis has shown extraordinary success as businessmen. He urged that more and more Keralites to emulate this and stand up and say that ‘I am an Entrepreneur’. He pointed out that failure as an entrepreneur is not something unacceptable, but it’s only a learning phase for budding entrepreneurship. He lauded the efforts of Technopark TBI for creating a fertile eco-system for budding entrepreneurship in the state.

Ms. Sheela Thomas presided over the function and also read the wishes from Chief Minister Sri. V S Achudanandan that the Govt is very happy with the ‘I am an Entrepreneur Campaign’ because of the fact that the Campaign is addressing the Arts and Science Colleges and Rural Innovators along with the Engineering Colleges and Polytechniques and she offered to extend all possible support for the success of the campaign.

“To encourage budding entrepreneurship we provide a fantastic system called Technopark TBI. The Campaign will be give the required motivation for the students to take up the entrepreneurial route” says Mr.Mervin Alexander, CEO-Technopark

www.iamanentrepreneur.in a website solely dedicated to this campaign will
Dr.Tharoor releasing the 'I am an Entrepreneur' video CD
Dr.Tharoor releasing the ‘I am an Entrepreneur’ video CD

bring the latest updates about the campaign and tips and advices from the market leaders and business gurus and an interaction forums to be aware about what others think.

 
The objective of this campaign is to ignite the young minds in the Engineering colleges and Business Schools, changing the Entrepreneurship climate of the state and get more innovators and find out more students start ups right from college campuses. This campaign is carried in a motivational video which shares the experiences of some of the very successful entrepreneurs and visionaries in our state and which aspires to inspire the students to take up on new projects on their own. It will be an informative and inspiring video on Entrepreneurship and Incubation Awareness. The video contains inspirational talks from various personalities, including Mr.Kris Gopalakrishnan (CEO, Infosys), as a successful entrepreneur from Kerala, and Dr.Shashi Tharoor (Hon. Minister), as a well known visionary.

Seminar on on fostering biotechnological entrepreneurship in Kerala

Posted on August 18th, 2009 in Uncategorized) by admin | 0 Comments »

Kreara Solutions along with Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology and GTECH Technopark is organizing a seminar on 20th August 2009, at 10:00 AM.  on fostering biotechnological entrepreneurship in Kerala.

As members of an industry friendly ecosystem, we thought that this initiative should come from within Technopark.

The highlights of the programme will be:

a. Signing of an MOU between RGCB and Kreara identifying areas in which we could offer  commercial products and services in the Bioinformatics/Clinical Informatics sectors for the pharmaceutical and biotech companies across the globe. Areas of specific interest will be Cancer Research, Alternative Medicine, Bioinformatics and Tailor made training programs

b. This will be followed by a panel discussion attended by eminent scientists, strategists and academicians on how to build the ecosystem (regulatory, infrastructure and human resources) to effectively incubate biotech companies in Kerala