Sponsoring Agency: Government of India
Deadline Available: Available
Deadline Date (mm/dd/yyyy): 04/30/2021
Size of the Fund: Not Available
The AIM-PRIME program is aimed at promoting science based, deep technology ideas to market through training and guidance over a period of 12 months.
Focus Areas
Science-based, knowledge-intensive, deep technology entrepreneurship
Target Audience
Technology developers and incubations managers
Duration
Paced and staged over a duration of 12 months
Program Benefits
• Classroom Sessions: Learn from global experts on various topics relating to innovation and entrepreneurship.
• Live Projects: Work with an interdisciplinary team to actively bring an idea to market.
• One-to-One Mentoring: Get access to mentor panel who can guide you to accelerate your projects.
• Deeptech Startup Playbook: Get access to exclusive toolkits compiled in a resource for commercializing deep technology ideas.
• Curated Video Library: Get access to insights and lectures from various industry experts from around the globe.
• Peer-to-Peer Learning: Network and learn from other experienced startup founders and innovation managers.
Program Eligibility
Startup leadership team
• Technology developers and translators from early stage deep tech startups (For example: deep tech startups associated with AICs)
o Scientists/ Engineers/ Clinicians with advanced degrees
o Having a formal and full-time employment engagement with a startup
o Applicant should be advancing a science-based technology (at any TRL level)
o The proposed technology should have significant knowledge intensity or novelty
• (Preference shall be given to applicants who have filed IP and have access to formal IP on the technology, startups incubated by an AIC, and startups incubated by an AIC hosted by a publicly funded academic or R&D institution.)
Faculty Entrepreneurs
• Applied researchers/ technology developers from academic/ R&D Labs with firmed up technology commercialization/entrepreneurship plans
o Scientists/ Engineers/ Clinicians with advanced degrees
o Having a formal and full-time employment engagement with an academic/ R&D institution
o Applicant should have identified a science-based technology (at any TRL level) suitable for developing a new enterprise
o The proposed technology should have significant knowledge intensity or novelty.
• (Preference shall be given to applicants who have filed IP and have access to formal IP on the technology, have already taken some efforts towards commercialization of their technology, are host institutions hosting an AIC or publicly funded academic or R&D institutions.)
Incubation Managers
• CEOs/ Senior Managers of AIM funded AICs
o Undergraduate degree in any scientific discipline
o Having a formal and full-time employment engagement with an AIM funded AICs
o Applicants AIC should have at least one pre-incubatee that is a science-based deep tech startup whose technology should have significant knowledge intensity or novelty.
• (Preference shall be given to applicants whose AIC has several science-based deep tech startups as incubatees, and whose AIC is affiliated to a publicly funded academic or R&D institution)
*All program participants:
• Applicant shall be a startup or an incubator
• Each applicant will nominate preferably 2 participants
• All participants shall be Indian citizens.
More information at: https://aim.gov.in/primeprogram.php
