11 March - Blog

How I-NCUBATE helps deep-tech startups go from the lab to market

The Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, IIT Madras, has completed 18 cohorts of its flagship I-NCUBATE program. Almost every startup that participated in the eight-week program found it to be transformational. What happens during those eight weeks? Read More

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10 March - Blog

GDC’s CEO chairs panel discussion at CII Connect conference

The 20th edition of the Confederation of Indian Industry’s (CII) flagship ICT conference, CII Connect, was held in Chennai on November 26th and 27th. The theme of the conference was, “Building a sustainable deep technology ecosystem.” The event was hosted by the Tamil Nadu government and industry experts from across the globe participated via video conferencing. Read More

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10 March - Blog

The Emerging role of academicians and researchers in the Indian startup ecosystem: A discussion

The 10th Annual Deshpande Symposium was held as an online event in June this year. GDC conducted a panel discussion at the event, on the ‘Emerging role of academicians and researchers in the Indian startup ecosystem’. The panel comprised distinguished academicians from across India - Prof. Ravinder David Koilpillai from IIT Madras, Prof. J. Ramkumar from IIT Kanpur, Dr. Manish Arora from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, and Ms. Poyni Bhatt, CEO of Society for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (SINE) at IIT Bombay. The discussion was moderated by R. Raghuttama Rao, CEO, GDC. Read More

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4 January - Blog

India needs Innovation across the spectrum

“There is a need to bridge key gaps in the startup ecosystem in India, and GDC is doing exactly that. I would like to take this initiative to a national level.” -Mr. Anil Agarwal, Additional Secretary (DPIIT), & Chief Guest for the FINALE Read More

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16 September - Blog

“Commercializing university research is the need of the hour”

“I learnt to be an entrepreneur the hard way – through trial and error. What should have taken me a mere 2-3 years took twice the time to complete,” says Professor V. Ramgopal Rao, Director, IIT Delhi. Read More

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16 September - Blog

Need to bridge industry-academia gap in startup ecosystem: Mr. Anil Agarwal

“There is a need to bridge key gaps in the startup ecosystem in India, and GDC is doing exactly that. I would like to take this initiative to a national level.” -Mr. Anil Agarwal, Additional Secretary (DPIIT), & Chief Guest for the FINALE Read More

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