The Innovation Center ‘MERIStartupHub, at the Management Education And Research Institute , GSSIP University Delhi, has launched a new win win model for corporate, investors, its student innovators and all India start-ups. Sh IP Aggarwal Chairman MERI Group of Institutions, Prof Lalit Aggarwal Vice President MERI( Joined Virtually),Dr S K Goel Director Coordination MERI Group of Institutions Dr Anjali Nigam who Heads the Incubation Center at MERI Group of Institutions, Dr Deepshikha Kalra Dean MERI and other dignitaries from Corporate world and Navratanas Graced the occasion. Dr Anjali Nigam told us that she curated this “win-win” model i.e. ‘The Corporate, Startups, & Innovators Forum 3.0, 2022’ Dr Nigam had launched India’s 1st ‘Corporate Responsible CSR & Top Social Innovators of India Forum in 20which was a great success with corporate & startups. Hence, on similar lines, this forum has been curated by her, developed, launched, & held on 5th May 2022, at CSOI, Vinay Marg, New Delhi. Since the event was in hybrid mode, it was attended by more than 300 national & international delegates, student innovators, Top & senior management of. Maha-Navratnas & multinational companies, top Investors & IP experts, The Forum resulted in many student innovators and ideators, getting real-time problem statements from these companies to work on, and MERIStartupHub connected these all India startups & student innovators with the corporate & investors, who in turn have taken them under their wings as ‘Entrepreneurs in Residence’ or ‘Innovator Interns’. Dr Nigam told us, that this ‘new step’, will facilitate the student innovators in corporate mentoring through entire gamut of startup stages, like R&D, research, product development, from POC, to MVP to Prototype, through market & customer validation, to branding positioning, market entry…and finally succeeding with the corporate support. Revenue sharing models and sharing of IP could be worked out between the innovator, corporate, investors & institute. Since 90% of Indian startups fail within the first five years of their inception and a large percentage of them fail because there is no market for the products or services they create. Hence, this ‘Early Stage Marriage of Trust’ between the corporate & innovators will lead to solving one of the most fundamental problems faced by student innovators and our startups.
MERIStartupHub Launches ‘Corporate-Startups-Innovators Forum 3.0, 2022’
