INTRODUCTION
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ~ Walt Disney
Established in the year 2017, IDEA Lab (Innovation, Development of Entrepreneurship and Application Lab) has been continuously working very closely for promoting innovation and entrepreneurship with the aspiring young minds of the college. The basic objective of IDEA Lab is to be a establishing technical business incubator for entrepreneurship development and innovation, which enables establishing new enterprises, creating new job positions, as well as developing new IDEAs and technologies.
The Business Incubator Centre has the tools, expertise, mentors and experience to help early age start-ups and ideas. IDEA Lab is developed to support every small or medium size business idea, innovation, entrepreneurship and start-ups in the college. Our general education is not geared toward teaching the skills to run a business. A great idea can die for failure of proper business principles. That is where the IDEA Lab, Technical Business Incubator Centre at AKGEC does something magical.
OBJECTIVE
1. Promote and accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial Technology based on Small Enterprises in selected thrust areas such as manufacturing, Internet of Things, Electronics and Energy through an array of business support resources, expertise, facilities and other infra- structure available in the college.
2.Concentrates on providing opportunities for product development, commercialization, new business model, foster local development and employment of highly skilled graduates.
3. The incubation model at AKGEC has been adopted to meet a variety of needs, from fostering commercialization of technologies to generation of employment. The incubator facility at AKGEC has the provision of providing the infrastructure, survival and growth which are the major challenges for the start-ups and innovators to develop and to stay in a strategic and good entrepreneurial climate.
Vision
To work towards creating a dynamic environment of unhesitant exchange of information and ideas amongst all, the faculty and the students. To contribute towards the growth of society in general and be the ripple that brings the wave of change for the betterment of humankind and the world. Development of a best practice and nurturing environment that supports: New entrepreneurial and innovative businesses, direct and indirect job creation and community development.
Mission
The mission of the IDEA Lab is to help students' ideas and encourage them to think beyond the ordinary, for the betterment of mankind. To make IDEA Lab a place where no idea is considered out of bounds so that there is no pulling back. To encourage students and teachers alike to use their technical skills and inherence managerial skills for the production of goods, or services or an amalgamation of both to bring relief and ease human existence.
The mission of the IDEA Lab is to help students to generate new IDEAs. The IDEAs can be used for a new product or service, or for solving a problem, improving a process or for creating something that never existed. That is up to you.
Faculty Coordinators
ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS