Kerala,
which in 2012 announced a student entrepreneurial policy, is now going to have
technology entrepreneurship as part of its engineering education.Chief Minister
Oommen Chandy on Saturday announced that entrepreneurship would be a key part
of the B. Tech course. This was to create an entrepreneurial mindset among
engineering students, he told a large gathering of engineering students who had
shown up for the `YES! Can’ event organised by the Kerala State Industrial
Development Corporation here.“We are now going to introduce Minors in
technology entrepreneurship so that all the additional effort that you take to
create a start-up will be recognised and will become a key part of the B.Tech
degree,” he told the students.
Chandy
noted that at most American universities, undergraduate students could major in
one subject and could have a minor in an entirely different field of study. For
instance, Mark Zuckerberg, a co-founder, and currently the chairman of
Facebook, had majored in computer science but at the same time had a minor in
psychology.Chandy also announced that Technopark at Thiruvananthapuram and
Startup Village at Kochi would be upgraded to world-class technology incubators
so that student entrepreneurs could have the best facilities. He recalled that
both the incubators had won Central Government awards.Thousands of youths,
mostly engineering students, showed up for `YES! CAN’ which was the second
edition of the Young Entrepreneurs Summit held last year on the State
Entrepreneurship Day. The event, where many successful young entrepreneurs from
outside Kerala made presentations, also helped budding entrepreneurs connect
with angel investors and venture capitalists. More than 500 innovative ideas
were submitted for the event.
Prof.
John Kurakar
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