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Mar 09

IIM Ahmedabad incubator launches effort to incubate clean energy businesses

Renewable Energy Search in an endeavor by IIM Ahmedabad’s  Centre for Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship (CIIE) and Ministry of New & Renewable Energy to identify, encourage and incubate entrepreneurial ideas aimed at solving the energy crisis in India. 

The program shall provide support, recognition, licensing, seed-funding and mentoring to the following groups and invites applications in all the three categories:

Startups:

 

The program shall provide funding and mentoring support to technology-based early stage start-ups (even pre-revenue). CIIE shall make an investment of up to Rs 20 lacs per start-up and help in additional funding rounds

Entrepreneurs-in-residence (EIRs)

The program shall also identify entrepreneurs interested in setting up their venture in this growing sector, but not having yet narrowed down on their business idea. Such EIRs shall get to spend 3-4 months with the program as an EIR to identify a proven technology around which they would like to build their venture. Having done that, the EIR shall create a business plan and build a complimentary team around the idea. EIRs with most viable plans shall be provided funding and incubation support under the program.

 

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16
Nov 08

Cleantech – key to India’s future

A few weeks back, Rajesh Jain wrote a small post on why India needs a CTO & CEO.  The post struck a chord and got me thinking real hard.  Without a doubt we need some hard core professionals and visionaries to lead India and lay the foundation for its future.

Amongst other things, I think one of the key areas where India needs some serious leadership and experience is cleantech. Energy sector in India is a crisis waiting to happen. Due to the subsidized oil prices, state run oil companies are bleeding money. India spent close to $55 billion on oil imports in the first half of 2008, while it spent close to $35 billion in the same period in 2007. This ~60% increase just goes to show how immune we are to the fluctuating oil prices. Oil prices have always been a politically sensitive topic and to appease the public, politicos have continously subsidized oil prices, instead of letting market factors determine the oil prices. 

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