PANAJI
Chief Minister Pramod Sawant inaugurated the new premises of the Atal Incubation Centre at GIM (AIC-GIM) at the Goa Institute of Management campus in Sanquelim and simultaneously unveiled four key initiatives of AICGIM aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and sustainable businesses in the state.
The new incubation centre will conduct an eight-week 'GOA INVEST-a-THON' across the state to attract investment for Goa-based start-ups by facilitating access to founders of start-up ventures to leading investors.
The four programmes which were unveiled by CM Sawant included 'iMagic', which will help identify entrepreneurial talent in Goa and harness it by offering access to knowledge and mentors to cultivate and promote the culture of innovation.
'(S4S)3' is a programme aimed at making startups sustainable, scalable and to provide support to social impact startups. 21 such startups are expected to be incubated at the AIC-GIM, which will receive the required value-added services by AICGIM Incubator.
The 'We-nurture' programme is aimed at nurturing women micro-entrepreneurs with the help of corporate partners and 'RIVER', a one-year programme for entrepreneurs-in-residence to work on an idea, create startups and make them scalable ventures.
Speaking on the occasion, CM Sawant said that Goa was well on its way to becoming a preferred destination for startups and the AIC-GIM could play a key role in encouraging and facilitating entrepreneurship as an alternate career option for young men and women.
