About:

Sri Sri Centre for Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Family Business aims to create an informed and engaged community of family businesses that are globally focused, technology-driven, and impact-oriented. It aims to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and Govt. (MSME) to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem. It also aims to investigate the family businesses in the state and the country with a view to providing consultancy services for developing long-term strategy, governance structure, sustainable finance, and succession planning. The centre is an initiative to create more job creators rather than job seekers. The Centre is focused on knowledge transfer through executive education programs as well as customized training for entrepreneurs and family businesses around the state of Odisha in particular and India in general.

Mission:

To create an innovative platform for start-ups, entrepreneurs, and family businesses and to inspire and empower family business owners for creating new models of expansion, and innovation by using destructive technologies.

Vision:

To become a knowledge and research hub in the areas of entrepreneurship, innovation, and family businesses to realize the mandate of Atmanirbhar Bharat.

Focus Areas:

• To create a common platform for interaction between established and new entrepreneurs.
• To create a platform for interaction and idea dissemination between new start-ups and family businesses.
• To inspire and empower women entrepreneurial leaders to reach their full potential to create economic and social value for themselves, their organization, and society.
• To organize seminars, workshops, symposiums, and conferences for creating an ecosystem where success stories will be shared to motivate young students for new start-ups and to update entrepreneurs and family businesses with best practices in the emerging and global economy.
• To provide a stage where the local entrepreneurs and family businesses will have idea sharing with Govt. bodies like MSME, banks, funding agencies, trade associations (CII, FICCI, ASSOCHAM), entrepreneurial facilitators like NEN, TIE for ultimate growth of their businesses.
• To offer training and development programs to family businesses and entrepreneurs for their skill development.
• To promote the spirit of entrepreneurship and family business by developing case studies.
• To develop short-term value-added certificate courses for students for helping them to make their own careers in the field.
• To offer long-term courses in the area of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Family Businesses.