University Business Incubation Centre
22.9.15 Padma Shri Prof. (Dr.) Kasturi Lal Chopra delivered lecture at the Inaugural interactive session organised by University Business Incubation Centre at Central University of Jammu.
For promoting Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship the Central University of Jammu has recently created an Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship council headed by Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Prof. Ashok Aima. The first interactive session on “Nurturing Innovations and Entrepreneurship in Academia” was organised to inculcate the Entrepreneurial skills amongst the students wherein Prof. K. L Chopra (Padma Shri), Former Director at IIT Kharagpur, Honorary Professor in IIT Delhi, IITBhb, IIEST, ITM and chairman, BoG, BBIT, emphasised on generating knowledge power by inculcating creativity through Human Resources.
Prof. Chopra in his interactive session focused on building entrepreneual skills that contribute towards an individual’s overall success. He also discussed the concept of innovation through research and development. He emphasised on knowledge based active learning which includes transformational, translational and integrational learning. Prof. Chopra differentiated human resource development strategies and initiatives that are required to be successful. He emphasised on the importance of strengthening Entrepreneurship for national development. He also emphasised on developing leadership skills among the students for taking initiatives towards developing new business avenues.
Prof. Ashok Aima, Vice Chancellor, CUJ takes a keen interest for developing entrepreneurial skills amongst the youth of J & K. Thus Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Council have been created which would provide funding and other help to the budding entrepreneurs in the state. He announced that besides providing infrastructural facilities, the University would also facilitate the entrepreneurs in collecting of seed capital for the business idea. Earlier Prof Lokesh Verma, Academic Coordinator greeted the gathering and highlighted the importance of University Business Incubation Centre. Prof. Deepak Raj Gupta, Convener, Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Council emphasised on the role of entrepreneurial skills development and presented a formal vote of thanks. The proceeding of the session was conducted Dr. Jaya Bhasin, Chairperson, University Business Incubation Centre. The programme was coordinated by Dr Shahid Mushtaq, Manager UBIC. All the faculty members and managing committee members Prof Deepak Raj Gupta, Dr Jaya Bhasin, Dr Neelika Arora, Anjali Pathania, Gowhar Rasool, Asif Ali and Dr Shahid Mushtaq were present on the occasion.