Established as a Centre in the University of Kashmir in March 2021 as “Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship” (CIIE) is located within the premises of the Institute of Technology, Zakura Campus of the University of Kashmir with a vision to promote Innovation, Incubation and encourage entrepreneurship primarily among students of the Institute of Technology besides catering to entrepreneurial challenges of youth in the area thus equipping them with various valuable skills towards becoming self-sufficient.The Centre encourages young inquisitive minds and backs up/supports their innovative projects and ideas besides providing a decisive platform for incubating their projects and promoting Entrepreneurship on a broader spectrum. This facility is extended to students and innovators alike.CIIE since its very inception has been striving to successfully provide an enabling ecosystem with the eventual succour of innovations from scratch and lead innovators with the thrill and skill of becoming assets to the nation. To elaborate, CIIE puts in all the requisite efforts to convert mere an idea into new or improved products, processes, services and offering for growth and social development to unleash the creative potential of our youth. Innovations being vital in the contemporary era need to be evolved and supported from the very basic levels and that’s where our centre comes to the rescue by inspiring, encouraging and nurturing the students and innovators by exploring new ideas and processes resulting in innovative activities.



Vision

  • ·To establish a state-of-the-art center for technology innovating and incubation for transforming technological and innovative ideas into working products and business ventures thereby empowering youth to become job providers.
    ·Efforts will be made for scouting, spawning, sustaining, scaling up, and protecting indigenous technological innovations and catalyzing their transition from mind to market.
    ·CIIE  endeavors to identify potential incubates, and desirous of incubation support, and provide them with training as well as technical support for prototype development.
    ·CIIE  provides IPR protection and patent Filling facilitation.
    ·CIIE  provides interaction and networking of incubates with industry partners and angel investors.