Corporate Incubation
A programme by Bhau Institute, COEP
Custom programmes where a company uses Bhau as its external innovation and startup-creation arm, including a CSR route.
At a glance
| Best for | Companies wanting an external innovation and incubation partner |
|---|---|
| Format | Hybrid |
| Run with | Siemens, Dassault Systemes, Element Solutions, DANA, FORVIA, Brisk Electronics |
About Corporate Incubation
Bhau works with corporate organizations to act as their incubation centre in their own technology areas, typically for innovations that fall outside the company's mainstream innovation pipeline. Companies use it either as an external innovation and startup-creation zone where their technologies are spun out into companies, or as a platform for putting CSR money behind startups solving social problems in education, rural development and women's entrepreneurship.
What you get
- A programme designed around the company's technology areas
- Bhau's resources behind the research and development of the product, and then incubation of the resulting startup
Who can apply
- Corporate organizations, not individual founders
How to apply: contact the institute directly at its general inbox.
The institute says it completed one such programme in 2017-18 with 3DPLM and Dassault Systemes, incubating three startups, and has since run one with Siemens.
Where to apply
Other Bhau Institute, COEP programmes
- Pre-IncubationAn entry track for students and first-time founders who are still working out whether their idea holds up.
- Physical IncubationThe selective, intensive on-site incubation track with structured training, targeted mentoring and funding support.
- Virtual IncubationIncubation for startups that cannot take, or do not want, space in the building.
- NIDHI PRAYASA prototyping grant for individual innovators turning a new idea into a working prototype, run under the Department of Science & Technology's NIDHI umbrella.
- NIDHI EIR (Entrepreneur in Residence)A fellowship that lets a graduate or experienced professional work full time on a technology business idea instead of taking a job. Between intakes — the last call is closed.
- NIDHI Seed SupportEquity investment for startups already incubated at Bhau that need capital to bridge development and commercialization. Between intakes — the last call is closed.
- Startup India Seed Fund SchemeNational seed funding for proof of concept, prototype, product trials, market entry and commercialization, disbursed through Bhau as an implementing incubator.
- SARTHI-Bhau Incubation ProgramA twelve-month fellowship for Maharashtra graduates from the Maratha, Kunbi, Maratha-Kunbi and Kunbi-Maratha communities building a technology business.
- AMRUT-Bhau Incubation ProgramA twelve-month fellowship for Maharashtra graduates from the economically weaker section of the open category.
- MahaJyoti-Bhau Incubation ProgramA one-year programme for OBC, VJ, NT and SBC entrepreneurs in Maharashtra with a technology-based idea. The last intake has closed.
- Siemens Bhau Entrepreneurship Promotion ProgramA corporate incubation programme run with Siemens. Applications are closed.