Course I: Fundamentals (4 Credits)
- Entrepreneurship Fundamentals
- Innovation Fundamentals
- Startup Fundamentals
Course II: Intellectual Property Fundamentals (4 Credits)
- What is Intellectual Property and it’s importance
- IP and Startups – Business Model around IP
- Prior Art Search with tools and techniques
- Patent: Understanding process, filing and allied processes
- Trademark, Copyright and Design: Process around them
Course III: Starting your startup (4 Credits)
- Startup life cycle
- Building your first prototype, and making it an MVP
- Product Market Fit & its importance
- Ideation and design thinking
Course IV: The right tools for starting up (4 Credits)
- Market Research
- Technology Fundamentals and choices
- Marketing and branding
- Finance Management and Accounting
- Investment and Fundraising
- Team Building and finding your first co-founders
- Risk Management
Semester 2
Course V: Becoming an Enabler and Leveraging the Ecosystem
- Institution Building, Governance and Management
- Starting an e-Cell, taking it to an incubator
- Running an incubator, etc.
- Grants for institutions and beneficiaries, and public policy context
- Sustaining an Entrepreneurship Enabling Organisation
- Pillars and stakeholders of the ecosystem
- Indian context
- Global context
- Gujarat Ecosystem – A case study
Course VI: Project (Can be done individually or in groups)
- Build an Incubator
- Identify the Host and identify the core competencies
- Choose a sector focus and devise a USP
- Develop at least 5 different type of programs and activities for the incubator
- Plan a 5-year budget and revenue projections and construct a HR plan for the incubator
- Develop a 10-year sustainability plan
Post-graduate Diploma in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
General Track (PGD-GEN)
Semester 1
Course I: Fundamentals (4 Credits)
- Entrepreneurship Fundamentals
- Innovation Fundamentals
- Startup Fundamentals
Course II: Intellectual Property Fundamentals (4 Credits)
- What is Intellectual Property and it’s importance
- IP and Startups – Business Model around IP
- Prior Art Search with tools and techniques
- Patent: Understanding process, filing and allied processes
- Trademark, Copyright and Design: Process around them
Course III: Starting your startup (4 Credits)
- Startup life cycle
- Building your first prototype, and making it an MVP
- Product Market Fit & its importance
- Ideation and design thinking
Course IV: The right tools for starting up (4 Credits)
- Market Research
- Technology Fundamentals and choices
- Marketing and branding
- Finance Management and Accounting
- Investment and Fundraising
- Team Building and finding your first co-founders
- Risk Management
Semester 2
Course V: Becoming an Enabler and Leveraging the Ecosystem
- Institution Building, Governance and Management
- Starting an e-Cell, taking it to an incubator
- Running an incubator, etc.
- Grants for institutions and beneficiaries, and public policy context
- Sustaining an Entrepreneurship Enabling Organisation
- Pillars and stakeholders of the ecosystem
- Indian context
- Global context
- Gujarat Ecosystem – A case study
Course VI: Project (Can be done individually or in groups)
- Write an elevator pitch
- Construct a business plan and create business model canvas
- Estimate its valuation and projections
- Make an investor deck
- Identify the solution, and develop a solution deployment plan
- Identify the market and segmentation, and develop a marketing and sales plan