BGIIES

About BGIIES

The BITS Goa Innovation, Incubation & Entrepreneurship Society (BGIIES) is a registered Society under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, in February 2020, having its office in BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus, Zuarinagar, Goa, India. The Society was set up with an aim:

  1. To promote, encourage, and sustain activities and programs contributing to innovation, incubation & entrepreneurship education and development.
  2. To establish and administer the Business Incubators (BIs) in any location in India in order to promote innovation based startups.

Currently the Society is supporting the BITS BIRAC BioNEST incubator, BITS Pilani, K. K. Birla Goa Campus.

BGIIES (BITS Goa Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship Society)

Aims & Objectives:
  1. To establish and administer Business Incubators (BIs) in any location in India in order to promote innovation based start-ups.
  2. To promote, encourage, and sustain activities and programmes contributing to innovation, incubation & entrepreneurship education and development.
  3. To aid and help in the creation of technology or innovation based new enterprises.
  4. To aid and help in creating value-added jobs and services.
  5. To aid and help in fostering the entrepreneurial spirit.
  6. To assist in speedy commercialization of R&D outputs.
  7. To aid and help in developing new tools for technology transfer.
  8. To provide mentoring and consulting services to aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs.
  9. To accept endowments, bequests, donations in cash or kind, gifts, subscriptions, grants from Government, public and private institutions and transfer of property made to the Society and administer them in accordance with the terms agreed and the bye-laws of the Society.
  10. To disburse grants, loan and equity-linked financial support to incubation projects and supported start-ups, to charge fees and enter into financial contracts to recover expenses for incubation infrastructure, consultancy and various other services, and to convert loans into equity shares or to directly acquire equity shares in start-ups in lieu of facilities, services and funding provided to them.
  11. To make grants / endowments to Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani for the furtherance of the objects of Society.
  1. To provide services in the areas of management, patent filing, other intellectual property related matters and also legal services to incubated companies and industrial clients at large.
  2. To provide laboratory facilities for conduct of experiments and testing to incubated companies, students, faculty and industrial clients.
  3. To appoint attorneys, managers, secretaries, officers and staff for the purpose of carrying out the programmes and functions of the Society.
  4. To vest any immovable or movable property, rights or interest acquired by or belonging to the Society to person or organisation on behalf of or for the benefit of the Society and in furtherance of its objects.
  5. To enter into collaborations and advisory arrangements with such educational organisations, institutions, bodies in India and abroad, for such periods as the Society may deem fit from time to time.
  6. To enter into any agreement with any Government or authorities (municipal, local or otherwise) or any corporations, companies, or persons, or any co-operative society or organization or institutions conducive to the Society’s objects.
  7. To acquire and dispose off properties for the benefit of the Society.
  8. To start, develop or promote any fund to finance start-ups in supported incubators under the scheme of venture capital fund.
  9. To organize seminars, exhibitions, symposiums to help the students to develop technology innovation or entrepreneurial spirit.
  10. To take up any other activity for the advancement of general public utility or welfare.

BGIIES General Body Members

BGIIES (BITS Goa Innovation Incubation & Entrepreneurship Society) General Body
Founding members
Name Designation
Prof. Suman Kundu President
Prof. D. M. Kulkarni Secretary
Prof. Mridula Goel Joint Secretary
Mr. Ian F Sardinha Treasurer
Mr. Arun Khetan Member
Prof. P. Yogeeswari Executive Member
Dr. Rajorshi Sen Gupta Executive Member
Prof. Srinivas Krishnaswamy Member
Prof. Meenal Kowshik Member
Prof. K. R. Anupama Member
Prof. Vinayak NaikMember
Dr. Ram Shanker PatelMember
Other Members
Name Designation
Mr. Rajneesh KumarMember
Prof. Bharat DeshpandeMember
Dr. Anirban RoyMember
Executive Committee
Executive Committee Members
Name Designation
Prof. Suman KunduPresident
Prof. Sunil BhandVice President
Prof. D. M. KulkarniSecretary
Prof. Mridula GoelJoint Secretary
Mr. Ian F SardinhaTreasurer
Mr. Rajneesh KumarMember
Prof. Bharat DeshpandeMember
Dr. Anirban RoyMember