Guwahati News Desk: The North-East Agriculture Technology Entrepreneurs Hub (NEATEHUB) the AIC-AAU incubator of Assam Agricultural University of Jorhat recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Guwahati Biotech Park (GBP) of Guwahati on first week of July.
The GBP is based out at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati is an initiative of Assam government to promote business in biotechnology and allied areas through entrepreneurship development specially in the North-Eastern region.
Whereas, NEATEHUB is an Agri Technology Business Incubator for startups intending to nurture Agri entrepreneurs across the North East Region, who may be at various stages of their entrepreneurial journey.
The Incubator specifically focuses on Agri and allied Agriculture sectors and also promote entrepreneurs who are working on emerging technologies that impact these sectors.
Through MOU, both the parties have aimed to establish a close linkage and functional coordination between the incubators for the cause of supporting entrepreneurship and start-up ventures in the northeast region of the biotech and Agri related domains.
Besides, NEATEHUB and GBP shall design joint certification programs and training modules jointly wherein NEATEHUB shall provide sessions on entrepreneurship and customized mentoring and handholding to trainees/interns/incubatees enrolled at GBP and NEATEHUB.
The MOU between the premiere incubators of the state comes at a crucial time when the state government in the recently announced budget has proposed an ambitious plan of developing 100 industrial across the state.
As per another provision made the State government has planned to establish ‘nano incubation centers’ at Silchar, Bongaigaon, Tezpur, and Dibrugarh.