Transforming Dreams into Reality : The Entrepreneur’s Hub

Welcome to AIC NITTE!

About the Program

The MBA in Innovation, Entrepreneurship & Venture Development (IEV) is a two-year full-time program tailored to prepare candidates for founding innovation-driven enterprises or assuming leadership roles in family-managed businesses. This program is collaboratively offered by Justice K S Hegde Institute of Management and the AIC Nitte Incubation Centre. The program will enable student engagement with all aspects of new enterprise creation, including idea generation and evaluation, business planning, customer discovery, business digitisation, legal dimensions of business and financial planning. The innovative curriculum incorporates customised Executive Development Programs (EDP), Management Development Programs (MDP), classroom coaching and mentoring. Upon completion, students will be awarded a master's degree in Management. Additionally, they will receive incubation support from the AIC Nitte Incubation Centre to aid in the development, growth and sustainability of their start-ups, as well as project funding opportunities.

Objectives

The curriculum of the program will:
Enable the students to develop entrepreneurial skills to validate business ideas, test markets, and create a successful start-up.

Nurture creativity, innovation, leadership, and problem-solving skills through experiential learning methods, including extended internships.

Develop managerial and leadership skills to facilitate the growth of start-ups or family businesses.

Enable the students to present their business ideas effectively to a panel of investors for fundraising.

Who can Join?

Graduates who wish to develop competencies for starting their own innovative enterprise.

The younger generation of family businesses who wish to take a leadership role in the family business.

Working professionals at the early stage of their career who wish to start their own venture.

Entrepreneurs who want to transform their creative business ideas into a successful venture.

Eligibility Criteria

Bachelor's Degree in any discipline under 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 scheme of any recognized University with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate (including languages) at degree level.

A valid score in CAT / XAT / CMAT / ATMA / MAT / GMAT / NUCAT.

Candidates with experience in start-ups and businesses or who want to take up a leadership role in family-owned enterprises will be given preference.

About AIC Nitte

AIC Nitte, jointly promoted by Nitte Education Trust and NITI Aayog under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), GOI. AIC Nitte aims to foster and accelerate the nation’s entrepreneurial vision by nurturing a start-up ecosystem that transforms ideas into successful businesses led by capable and ambitious leaders. Atal Incubation Centre Nitte achieves this by offering start-ups valuable expertise, technological support, investor access, market entry, networking, industry connections Start-ups also receive direction through a robust chain of mentors who impart their sector and domain-specific expertise as real-time practical guidance.