Friday 18 October 2013

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Course witnesses huge response from the students of IITP

Indian Institute of Technology, Patna became one of the very few institutes in the country to offer a short-term course on Entrepreneurship from the session 2013-2014. The course as of now has been added as an open elective for third year students which continues over a semester educating students the fundamentals of entrepreneurship and innovation so as to cater need of synchronizing and performing well the ever growing league of entrepreneurs. The course is being be taught by visiting professors from various renowned universities.

The professors teaching the course are highly qualified and shares experiences that an entrepreneur lives by while going through his initial stage of innovation and realization of it in the market.

The course started with the basics of sales and marketing taught by Prof. Sanjay Mishra, who is an associate professor at University of Kansas. Graduated from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, the specializations of Prof. Sanjay Mishra include New Product and Innovation Management and Marketing.

The elements of finance and stock market were introduced to the students by Prabina Rajib, a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. She is a professor at Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur.

Graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and having done PGDM from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Prof. Anjan Raichaudhuri taught entrepreneurship through case studies.

Chairman, IIT Patna, Shri Ajai Chowdhry who introduced the course at the institute himself took a class on entrepreneurship and stimulated and inspired students to be an entrepreneur. One of the six founders of HCL and highly decorated Indian industry icon was of a high opinion that engineers are the best minds to be an entrepreneur.

The course has seen a huge popularity among the students as more than 60% of the students have opted for this elective course. Course topics include: Accounting and Finance, Sales and Marketing, Business Plan Project, Consumer Behaviour and much more.

The students of IIT Patna are simply amazed and highly inspired by the lectures.  They are proud to be a part of a part of course that is currently offered by only a few institutes in the country and holds much importance in the coming years. They are exhilarated and galvanized, they believe they are a step ahead of others as the course is cementing the confidence in their dreams to aim high, to achieve something that is noteworthy which falls into an extraordinary league of achievements.

Article by: Ayush Kumar

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