SAAKAR

SCAI club organizes SAAKAR: an event for scouting of entrepreneurs among the students from different management institutions and impart capability and inclination to start a business on grassroots innovation/ traditional knowledge from NIF database. Students are also offered Venture Capital Support to convert their business plans into enterprises, in this nationalwide event. This year NIF and SPJIMR, Mumbai organized SAAKAR 2009 on February 2009 with coordination with TePP, DST.

SAAKAR serves the primary objectives of:

• Enabling students synergize their business acumen with grassroots genius. In the process, they can bring their classroom learning into practice and understand the ground realities of setting up enterprises,
• Helping students acquire entrepreneurial skills. Grassroots innovations and indigenous knowledge examples can be taken up by the students for setting up their own enterprise and commercializing the innovations
• Identifying the prospective entrepreneurs and mentors for commercializing the technologies.