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Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India

Department of Scientific & Industrial Research

Technopreneur Promotion Programme (TePP)

DSIR's TePP along with its network partners provides grants, technical guidance and mentoring to independent innovators to emerge as entrepreneurs by incubating their idea and enterprise in two phases. Till date over 300 innovations have been supported. Proposals are now invited on the following for support in the year 2009-2010.

PROGRAMMEELIGIBILITY
Micro Technopreneurship Support(TS)
(Max support Rs 0.75 lakhs)
  • Indian students having nascent creative ideas.
  • Independent innovators exploring innovative ideas before applying for TPF.
TePP Phase I (innovation incubation)
TePP Project Fund (TPF)
(Max support Rs 15 lakhs)
  • Unattached independent innovators like micro and small entrepreneurs working on new designs.
  • Start-up firms/incubated firms with turnover less than Rs 45 lakhs
  • Independent innovators scouted, documented, mentored by various agencies like NIF,RIN,RIF, ISB, SPJIMR,CIIE, CII, FICCI, Stanford Bio Design.
  • Finalists of competitions like Techfest, GE Edison Challenge, Tata NEN, Proto.in, Indian Angel Network, TiE, Eureka, India Innovation Pioneers Challenge, Lockheed Martin India Innovation growth program, Innovation for India awards, Piramal Prize , Economic Times, National Geographic.
  • Medical doctors coming out with low cost tools.
TePP Phase II (enterprise incubation)
Supplementary TePP Fund (STF)
(Max support Rs 7.50 lakhs)
  • Innovators who have successfully completed TePP Phase-I projects.
Seamless scale-up support (S3T)
(Max support Rs 45 lakhs)
  • Innovator who has successfully completed TePP Phase-I project and desires to take innovation to market by becoming Technopreneur.
  • Innovators who have worked on `Phase-1 concept proving stage’ with support from other government agencies or with their own funds.
  • Independent innovator taking up collaborative innovation in partnership with commercial firm using TePP Open Innovation Network.
  • Entrepreneur taking CSIR rural technologies (with high social impact) to market.

Innovators are encouraged to submit proposals through the TePP Outreach Centres (TUCs), a list of which is maintained here. While Venture Center is not an authorized TePP Outreach Centre (TUC) yet, we do assist innovators and entrepreneurs with their TePP proposals, via our advisory services.

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