One week Capacity Training Program for "Business Incubation Managers" during December 10-14, 2009 at Ooty, India.

Trainers

Dr Anita Gupta

Dr. Anita Gupta is  a Doctorate in Mechanical Engg. from Indian Institute of Technology,  IIT Delhi. She began her career in as a  faculty of Mechanical Engg. at Govt. Engg. College, Raipur in 1987.  Thereafter, she  worked in the Industrial R&D Department of Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Delhi for over three years. After having  a brief stint  at Consultancy Development Center, a nodal agency for the promotion of technical consultancy in India, she joined the Department of Science & Technology of the Government of India  in 1998.

Handling Government of India’s (Department of Science and Technology, DST) pioneering programme on Institution based innovative and Technology driven Entrepreneurship Development  which includes the following: Technology Business Incubators (TBI), Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Parks (STEPs) and Networking with National & International Institutions

For the past ten years, she is actively involved in propelling entrepreneurial movement and the landscape across the country, through various  Institutional based mechanisms for promotion of techno-entrepreneurship with the nodal governmental body National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board of DST.  At National level, as a lead facilitator and catalyst, mechanisms like Technology Business Incubators Science & Science and

Technology Entrepreneurs Park are being independently handled  by her which targets higher education and research institutes of excellence. She has been actively involved in shaping up over 50 business incubators, which have cumulatively nurtured over 1100 entrepreneurial ventures across the country. She has also handled joint collaborative programmes  with the International Organisations i.e. World Bank, European Union, UNDP and  Asian and Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology. She has also acted as a UN-ESCAP resource person in their programmes in Cambodia and UNESCO-WTA programme in South Korea. She has officially visited countries like Cambodia, China, Germany, Nepal, South Korea, Sweden, Thailand ,U.K and USA. Various articles and technical papers have been contributed by her in leading national and international periodicals  and newsletters.

Dr Dutta

  Academic qualifications and professional affiliations:

          *  M. Sc. in Statistics from T.M. Bhagalpur University [1986], (Goldmedalist)

          *  Ph. D. (Science) [1995] on Mathematical modelllin/geconometric modelling.

          * Specialization : Population Studies, Database Management Systems, Computer Applications,Econometrics,

Entrepreneurship & Innovation

                                       *  Life Member, Indian Science Congress Association[ISCA].

 Professional experience:

More than 15 years professional experience in promoting and nurturing first generation S&T entrepreneurs and independent innovators both at regional and national level. Has written a number of papers in the area of entrepreneurship & innovation system.

Dr Martin Haeming

Dr. Martin Haemmig specializes as international researcher, lecturer and consultant in "The Globalization of Venture Capital", covering 13 countries in Asia, Europe, Israel , and the United States. His research and/or teaching are in conjunction with leading schools, such as the University of California, UniBW in Munich, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich. In Asia, he lectures at China's Tsinghua, Renmin, Peking, Fudan, CEIBS and JiaoTong University, as well as at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi and Mumbai, the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore.

Martin Haemmig is involved in research projects in international innovation management through CeTIM (Center of Technology and Innovation Management). Their research sites are in Munich/Germany (UniBW) and in Leiden/Netherlands (Leiden University). CeTIM specializes in collaborative research, virtual factories and innovation management, and the 'Globalization of Venture Capital' in particular, as well as venture-backed startups companies.

Martin Haemmig is co-chairman for Research & Statistics at the Swiss PE/VC Association (SECA) and co-chairs the Swiss National PhD Coaching Program for dissertations on Venture Capital for all Swiss universities, and was trainer at America's NVCA on "Globalizing Venture Capital". He is also founding professor of the world's first PhD program in venture capital at Renmin University in Beijing , as well as an advisor to the Thunderbird University Private Equity Center and the China Research Center (CRC) of the University of California Berkeley . He was involved in the workshops for China's early-stage venture investment climate at the World Economic Forum in China for two years. Martin Haemmig consults a few leading global venture capital firms, investors and governments and is a frequent conference speaker globally.

Dr. Martin Haemmig has both his doctor degree in business and his MBA from California and an engineering degree in electronics from Switzerland. During his over 20 years of industry experience as technologist and business executive, he became Swiss national marketing champion in 1994.

Dr Raghunandan Rajamani

Dr. Raghunandan Rajamani has been associated with the JSS group since 1989. He is Mechancial Engineer by profession with a Doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He has served as both faculty in Engineering and also in the Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Parks at both Mysore and Noida. He has more than a decade of experience in Entrepreneurship development.

During his tenure at the STEP at Noida he has been instrumental in establishing the IT Business Incubator which was the first Incubator to be setup under the umbrella of the Dept. Of Scinece & Technology, Govt. Of India (DST). The Incubator won the National Award as ‘Best Technology Business Incubator’ in the year 2004. He is also the lead player in the setting up of a Global Incubation Service platform – India’s first International Incubator with support of the DST.

He was also responsible to conceptualise and implement the Product Lifecycle Management Competency Centre in collaboration with Govt. Of France and Dassault Systemes and the establishment of a Centre of Advanced Manufacturing Technologies with support from ICICI Bank – Technology Institutions programme.

Dr. Raghunandan has also been active in the skilling of youth for employment and several programmes in vocational training have been implemented including a project titled “SKILLS” with the support from UNDP and DST, GOI.

He  is currently the Treasurer of the Indian STEPs and Business Incubators Association (ISBA).

Mr Dorai Thodla

Serial Entrepreneur in the software industry. Founder, iMorph, Inc. USA, Chief Mentor Congruent Research Labs, Chief mentor KCTech Innovation Cell. Companies He had worked for are Integra Technologies, Inc.,USA; Coromande Industries Inc., Forest Hills, NY; IKON Office Solutions, USA; Information Technology Systems, Bangalore; Hinditron Computers, Bombay; Bombay Stock Exchange, Bombay; Electronics Corporation India, Ltd,, Hyderabad; LRDE, Bangalore.

Mr Julian Webb

Recognized internationally and in Australia, Mr. Webb has been a pioneer and leader in the small business development and business incubation industries since the 1980s.

He ran award winning business incubators and business advisory services for many years in Australia and has helped develop and establish numerous business incubators in Australia and internationally. He expresses his passion for innovation, entrepreneurship and local economic development through his own consulting company, as the founder and current deputy chair of the Australian incubation industry association and through his work with the infoDev Program.

He has worked in numerous countries for governments, development agencies, incubators and international donors. Mr. Webb is the Asia Region Facilitator for the World Bank's infoDev Incubator Initiative; Managing Director CREEDA Projects Pty Ltd; Deputy Chairman Business Innovation and Incubation Australia Inc; Science Park and Innovation Centers Expert Group (SPICE Group). For more information about these organizations, please visit www.creedaprojects.com.au and www.springboardbusiness.com.au.
E-mail: julian.webb@creedaprojects.com.au

Mr Karuppanchetty

Mr.Somasundaram Karuppanchetty is Deputy COO of Agri Business Incubator-ICRISAT and a leader in the global Agri business addressing the challenges in Agriculture by innovative business systems and serving the farmers .He is a graduate in Agriculture and Post Graduate in Management .He has over fifteen years of  experience as a Marketing Professional in EID parry (I) Ltd , Agri Business Entrepreneur in Combine Harvesting, Farming as Land lord and a Management professional in International institute ICRISAT. He is versatile with Agri - project management, Agri- preuneurship, Incubation; farming and Agri-marketing

Mr Len Denton

Len Denton is a Technology Strategist who designs and leads technology commercialization programs for the IC2 Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. His programs accomplish the Institute’s goal of economic growth and development through technology commercialization for countries, regions and organizations.

The focus of Len’s current activity is leadership of the India Innovation Growth Program, a technology commercialization program co-sponsored by Lockheed Martin and India’s Department of Science and Technology. This program is designed to encourage and stimulate Indian early-stage technical innovations. Working closely with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, the Program identifies new innovations, trains entrepreneurs and inventors and accelerates new businesses into global markets.

Len’s other engagements for the IC2 Institute involved commercialization programs in Poland, Mexico and Hungary.

Prior to joining the IC2 Institute, Len was an engineering executive with US Fortune 100 companies. He has more than 25 years of hand-on experience of envisioning, shaping and managing technologies and their markets.

Mr Mittal

Mr. HK Mittal joined the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (EDII), Ahmedabad for developing entrepreneurship among the various target groups including Science & Technology persons. Mr. Mttal was instrumental in establishment of institutions of entrepreneurship development at the state level. Mr. Mittal then moved on to provide technical and management consultancy to SMEs and evolved programmes for entrepreneurship development.Between 1990 to 2003, Mr. Mittal was responsible for initiating various new programmes in NSTEDB and also had a short stint with UNIDO for development of Industrial Clusters in India and evolved programmes for entrepreneurship development.           

Mr. Mittal has over two decades of experience in technology based entrepreneurship development; skill development; trainers training and faculty development; establishment of entrepreneurship development institutions like institutes of entrepreneurship development at the state level, Technology Business Incubators, Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Parks, Entrepreneurship Development Cells in the educational institutions; development of micro-enterprises; working for income generation activities for underprivileged sections like: women, scheduled castes/tribes, physically challenged etc.; development of mass media systems for enterprise development like distance learning, TV, radio, satellite networks and development of portal; development of Industrial clusters; financial, management and technical consultancy to SMEs. In addition to being Member Secretary of NSTEDB, Mr. Mittal also looks after the work relating to plan-coordination and Information Technology for the Department of Science & Technology.

Mr. Mittal is also the National Programme Director of the UNDP project on skills which aims to demonstrate that jobs can be created through appropriate location specific, need based, competency linked training interventions using the conventional as well as on-line systems. Mr. Mittal has been responsible for establishing networks with international development institutions like the World Bank (InfoDev Programme) and EU for bringing the global incubation knowledge to the Indian business incubators. At the National level Mr. Mittal has linked activities of the NSTEDB with various developmental ministries and institutions. Mr. Mittal is a member of various boards and committees of the developmental institutions the title here

Mr Raghavendra Prasad

Prasad is the Managing Director of Wifin Technologies Pte Ltd, Singapore – a mobile applications development company with its subsidiary and Development Centre at Chennai, India that has been funded by a Singapore based investment company and has been nominated by NASSCOM as one of the “Showcase Companies for IT Innovation” in India in 2005. Prior to his present entrepreneurial venture, he was the Founder-Chief Executive Officer of Agri Science Park at ICRISAT where agri-bio ventures are nurtured. He has also worked in the areas of Projects and Profit Centre Management in companies like Crompton Greaves Ltd, S&S Power Switchgear Ltd and BHEL. Was the Founder – Executive Director of PSG-Science & Technology Entrepreneurial Park (PSG-STEP), Coimbatore that was chosen, in only its third year of operation, as the ‘Best S&T Park/ Technology Business Incubator in the Country’ by the Dept of Science & Technology, Government of India in 2002. PSG-STEP, under his leadership, assisted more than 80 technology ventures.                                                

He is a B Tech from IIT, Madras and MBA from IIM Bangalore and is presently pursuing his Ph D in Management Studies from the University of Hyderabad. He has also been an active member/ convener of Industry–Institute Interaction, IT, SME and Innovation panels of CII and the Chairman of CoimabatoreIT.com, a CII-led initiative to promote the city as a preferred IT destination. He has delivered talks in various national, international and UN forums on “Strategic Management”, “Science & Technology” and “New Venture Creation and Incubation”. Has also been a visiting faculty at PSG Institute of Management, Loyola Institute of Business Administration and Hyderabad Central University. Was also a member of the National Advisory Committee on Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Parks/ Technology Business Incubators.

Ms Deepanwita Chattopadhyay

Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, MD & CEO of ICICI Knowledge Park, is responsible for developing the first Life Science Research Park in India and establishing a sustainable innovation and knowledge cluster around a science park through a Public-Private Partnership model. She has deep interest in entrepreneurship, incubation and institution building. 

Deepanwita Chattopadhyay did her B. Tech & M. Tech in Radio Physics & Electronics from Calcutta University, India and was a senior research fellow at the Centre for Applied Research in Electronics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi. After brief stints as faculty at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, BITS, Pilani and as freelance writer and editor of science material for children, she joined the telecom advisory practice of ICICI Bank Ltd., the largest private bank in India, in 1994. She advised both government agencies and the private sector on telecom regulation & policy, convergence issues, market forecasts and entry strategies. She was deputed to ICICI Knowledge Park as its CEO in August 2001. 

Ms. Chattopadhyay is a Director on the Board of the IKP Investment Management Company that has been set up in 2009 to manage the India Innovation Fund. She has served as a member of various central and state government committees and is currently a member of the Committee on Biotech Parks of the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, Advisory Council Member of BIRAP, DBT, Governing Council Member, Lucknow Biotech Park and the Andhra Pradesh State Biotech Council and executive members of the Indian STEPs & Business Incubators Association (ISBA) and the Federation of Asian Biotech Associations.

She has been featured in various magazines for her work in entrepreneurship and cluster development. In 2008 the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) published her interview in Commercialising Science & Technology Parks, IASP Learning by Sharing Series, Book One, brought out as a sequence of four interviews of successful science park managers around the world.

Hotel Sullivan Court, Ooty

Hotel Sullivan Court, Ooty

The verdant hills, the lush green valleys and the pristine natural beauty of the hill resort of Ooty offers the urban tired souls a chance to resume their affair with Nature, to whom they truly belong. The heavenly hill resort like a blushing bride peeks from behind the lofty Nilgiri hills.

Set on the gentle slopes of Ooty, amidst lush green lawns and a colorful patterned garden, Fortune Hotel Sullivan Court is a modern-day tribute to John Sullivan, who founded the scenic town of Ooty in 1821.