Established in 2011 at DAIICT, Gandhinagar to promote innovation and entrepreneurship culture among DAIICT community. This has resulted in seven incubates out of which one is started by faculties and students together. On 15th august, 2015 Hon’ Prime Minister held a campaign for all the young Indians, for innovation and entrepreneurship to boost up start up culture. Gujarat is already known for business savvy state and DAIICT is already a leader in Information and Communication Technology in India.
We receive several expression of interest from various parts of India and abroad. ICT plays an important role in the start-up ecosystem in different sectors of business such as finance, e-commerce, synthetic biology, AI, robotics, e-governance etc. Currently in India there are many start-ups, however, only few are innovation based. DA-IICT has strength in research and innovation in interdisciplinary areas, thus it is a natural enabler for economic growth of both Gujarat as well as India.We would like to collaborate with research Universities and incubators by promoting start-ups of faculties and students. There is no better place than DA-IICT to inculcate innovation in high school students, where we plan to invite top notch researchers/innovators/businessmen to DA-IICT to share their knowledge and experience to curious minds. DCEI is supported by DeitY, Government of India and Government of Gujarat.
MISSION: The DA-IICT Centre for Entrepreneurship and Incubation (DCEI) aims to encourage students with an entrepreneurial bent of mind to come up with innovative ideas and channelise their efforts to give births to new ventures based on ICT products.We believe that innovative ideas are to be promoted. We would like to encourage young minds without bias.
VISION: A dynamic DA-IICT community with an inherent quest for innovation and at the forefront of the entrepreneurial activity not just in India, but across the globe. This is to be expanded to include Indian youth in general.We would like to be a leading incubation center, meeting expectations of budding entrepreneurs. With experience and leadership, we would like to be distinctive and successful where incubates feel at home and do well.
Government of Gujarat has developed a policy for providing assistance to Startups/ Innovation where any individual/ group of individuals having innovative idea/ Concept will be eligible and/ or Universities/ education institutions, Incubation Centre/ PSUs/ R&D Institutions/ Private and other establishments will be eligible as an institution to support and mentor to innovators as approved by Committee.
The DCEI has been recognised as a Nodal Institute for Start-up/Innovation to mentor the innovators by the Industries Commissionerate, Government of Gujarat.
The DCEI is supported by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to nurture and develop business ideas based on latest and emerging technology.
