SIDO Business and Technology Incubator Programme

Introduction

SIDO Business and Technology Incubator is a service center aiming to support entrepreneurs who have innovative and creative business or industrial idea in nurturing them to develop to a level of commercial business undertakings. At the center we provide them with work premises, technical advice, access to information through ICT facility, financial support through loans, along with other Business Development Services on demand in order to enable smooth start, growth, competitiveness and sustainability of enterprises.

Programme Objectives.

The major objective of SIDO Business and Technology Incubator Programme is to improve the chance of growth and rate of survival of Small and medium enterprises. The strategies used to achieve these objectives are:

To support innovative entrepreneurs, start-ups and existing at the earliest stage of technological Entrepreneurship and assist them in implementing the development of their innovative ideas by nurturing them to productive business enterprises.

To optimize the capacity utilization of available infrastructure facilities like buildings, professional skills available to support entrepreneurs to emerge and grow.

Specific Services offered under the Programme

SIDO Incubator Programme offers the following services: -

Modular working premises according to the client need

Access to Technology

Access to financial services.

Marketing facilitation

Product Development Support direct or through linkages with other technology development institution.

Technical Assistances.

Communication and information services through access to modern ICT facilities

Programme Targets group / Beneficiaries

Innovators.

Graduates from colleges, Universities and other training institutions, having innovative and creative industrial idea/projects for commercialization