Fast-Start Education Series

Introduction

An Incubator Operations education Series to get an understanding of various facets of incubator operations, types of incubator activities, the structure of programs, resources, people and operations. This series of courses is designed for incubation managers and other incubation stakeholders wanting to understand the know-how of the startup/business incubation process.

Module 1: Incubator Strategy and Operations 1

Guest Speaker: Aarathi Prasad, Program Manager, NSRCEL-IIMB

Quick Read
Seven Components of a successful business incubator


Reading Material
Business incubation strategy development

Module 2: How to build good administrative and HR support to boost incubation culture?

Guest Speaker: Aarathi Prasad, Program Manager, NSRCEL-IIMB

Module 3: Incubator Strategy and Operations 2

Guest Speaker: Prof Ramesh Sundararaman, CEO, IIITB Innovation Centre.

Module 4: Focus areas and funding sources for incubators

Guest Speaker: Prof Ramesh Sundararaman, CEO, IIITB Innovation Centre.

Quick reads
Corporate Finance Institute: Business Incubators.

Reading Material
How startup accelerators work

Module 5: Growth Program for Startups 1

Guest Speaker: Dr. B Lakshmi Meera, Program Director,Forge Accelerator

Module 6: Successfully partnering with the academia, government and the industry

Guest Speaker: Dr. B Lakshmi Meera, Program Director,Forge Accelerator

Quick reads
https://about.crunchbase.com/blog/how-to-create-an-effective-training-and-development-program-for-startups/

Reading Material

https://startuptalky.com/role-business-incubator/#:~:text=Incubators%20provide%20resources%20and%20services,on%20intellectual%20property%2C%20sources%20of

Module 7: Growth Program for Startups 2

Guest Speaker: Dr.Niranjan Joshi, Program InCharge ,BREC, C-CAMP

Module 8: Evaluation and engagement models for startups

Guest Speaker: Dr.Niranjan Joshi, Program InCharge ,BREC, C-CAMP

Quick reads

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alejandrocremades/2019/01/10/how-startup-accelerators-work/?sh=5266e0744cd8

Reading Material

https://www.researchgate.net/post/How-to-measure-the-growth-of-startups-Specially-in-reference-to-under-incubation-process

Module 9: Outreach and PR marketing for Incubators

 Guest Speaker: Raj Janagam, CEO,AIC-IIITH Foundation

Module 10: Raising funds for startups

Guest Speaker: Raj Janagam, CEO,AIC-IIITH Foundation

Quick reads

https://medium.com/@bryanlanders/marketing-ideas-for-incubators-and-accelerators-ad512c819cf5

Reading Material

https://www.infodev.org/infodev-files/resource/idi/document/Marketing%20for%20Dynamic%20Incubators.pdf

Module 11: Technology Commercialisation

Guest Speaker: Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal, Professor,IIT Madras

Module 12: Journey of a product from lab to field

Guest Speaker: Dr. Prabhu Rajagopal, Professor,IIT Madras

Quick reads

https://www.ceigateway.com/blog/startup-lifecycle-commercialization

Reading Material

https://hbr.org/1990/05/commercializing-technology-what-the-best-companies-do

Course Curator: Nirupa Vijaykumar & Ramesh Loganathan