Christ College of Engineering

Choosing the right route

• If you are a student or faculty member of Christ College of Engineering with a startup idea, contact the centre first.
• Campus policy provisions such as academic flexibility apply to students working on an incubated startup, so ask about them when you make contact.

How to apply

• Write to the centre at iedc@cce.edu.in and describe your idea, your team and what stage it is at.
• The centre's site does not publish a form, deadline or selection process, so confirm the steps with the centre directly.

What to check before you start

• Confirm whether your startup must be registered with the college and who holds the IP.
• Ask how selected startups are supported, including mentorship, facilities and prototyping.

Christ College of Engineering runs its startup support through the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC CCE). The centre describes itself as a student-led innovation hub that fosters entrepreneurship and incubates startups. It is based on the college campus in Irinjalakuda, Kerala.

How the incubation works

The centre incubates student-founded startups. Its startups page lists several ventures incubated at IEDC CCE, including Campus Compass, Engravers, Hobby Hub, Trawell, Levantate Labs and Learnesta. The page does not publish an application form, a call for applications or selection criteria, so any intake is handled by direct contact with the centre.

Who can apply

The centre's pages address students and faculty of Christ College of Engineering. The national startup policy page, which the college implements on campus, says it aims to empower students and faculty to turn ideas into viable enterprises. Outside applicants are not mentioned.

Campus startup policy

The college's page on the National Innovation and Startup Policy describes support for founders on campus. It covers pre-incubation support, academic flexibility for students working on an incubated startup, and clear intellectual property rules: a founder owns the IP where no institutional funds or facilities are used. Where institutional funding or infrastructure is significantly used, the institution holds a share of the IP on commercialisation.

Scale

The centre's homepage describes itself as having incubated 15+ startups and as having 500+ active members. These are the centre's own figures and are not independently verified.

Who runs it

IEDC CCE is run by a student executive committee. Its contact is the centre's role inbox, iedc@cce.edu.in.