MSME Business Incubator

The MSME Innovative Scheme brings together the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises' incubation, design and intellectual property streams into one route, meant to carry an idea through to a viable business. Career Point University runs the incubation part of it on its Hamirpur campus, with Dr. Asha Kumari as the named nodal officer.

Who can apply

• The university's page describes the national scheme rather than setting its own eligibility rule, so check the ministry's own criteria
• Innovators name a host institute when they apply

How to apply: applications are made on the ministry's own portal at my.msme.gov.in, where you name your host institute — not through a university form. The university's homepage has carried notices for the ministry's MSME Idea Hackathon pointing to that portal.

A caution on the money: the financial figures printed on the university's page are the scheme's terms for payments made to a host institute, including support for nurturing an idea and capital support for plant and machinery. They are not a cheque written to an applicant, and reading them as founder funding would be a mistake.