As part of the Youth Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) established in the Travancore Engineering College, Oyoor on 18 July 2022 to promote technology-based entrepreneurship among the students. IEDC-TEC is the first launch pad for our students' innovation and entrepreneurial journey. It provides them access to cutting-edge technology, world-class infrastructure, high-quality mentorship, early risk capital and global exposure.
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) is a flagship initiative of Kerala Startup Mission to promote innovation and entrepreneurship among the student and academic fraternity in the educational institutions in the State of Kerala and considered as an umbrella programme that would play an instrumental role in fostering innovation culture in Academic institutions. The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centres (IEDC) are platforms set up in Engineering colleges with an aim to provide students with an opportunity to experiment and innovate. Kerala Startup Mission has set up IEDCs across the State, providing avenues for creative students to learn, collaborate and transform their innovative ideas into prototypes of viable products and services.
SPOC/CoordinatorTo create an innovation culture among Innovators by introducing them to State-of-the-art technologies and positioning the Institution as a Learning and Innovation Platform by delivering technically competent and skilled Entrepreneurs.
To create IEDC as an Innovation Platform and to create future founders by promoting Innovation, Technology and Business Learning among the student community.
The purpose of the IEDCs will be to act as an aspirational platform, for the student entrepreneurs and tech-savvy innovators, in skilling and sharpening their entrepreneurial skill sets. The selected innovators will be exposed to Innovation culture, emerging technologies and Business aspects with the implicit assumption that the delta will become an entrepreneur and all the other skilled talents will get high-end jobs with the kind of exposure and skills they acquire.