Pre-incubation

The internal route, and the only free one. It is for people with an idea rather than a registered company, and it is limited to the college's own community.

What you get

• A co-working desk rather than a private office.
• A faculty advisor from the college group as your mentor on technology questions, which is required at this stage.
• Access to the host institutes' laboratories and library for building and testing a prototype.
• Shared meeting and conference facilities, video conferencing, printing and a cafeteria.
• Entrepreneurship training and workshops.

Who can apply

• Students, staff, alumni, and people affiliated through the college's extension services. Nobody else.
• No incorporation is needed at this stage.

How selection works: you submit the pre-incubation form with the mandatory details, and ASIF puts the proposal to its selection committee, which gives a view on whether the idea genuinely needs pre-incubation support.

How to apply: fill in the application form printed as an annexure at the back of the incubation policy, which the institute publishes on its innovation and incubation page, and send it with the supporting documents to the incubation coordinator at innovationhub@allenhouse.ac.in.