Members
ISBA membership is composed of various categories
Association members, incubator clients, supportive and sponsor members, and individuals interested in the promotion of such activities.
| 1. | An organization that operates business incubation program (e.g. TBI, STEP, STPI etc.) | Incubator Member |
| 2. | An association that facilitates business incubation resources and support but not directly involved in the incubation activities (for e.g. Venture capital Association) | Associate Member |
| 3. | Incubator Client or any other enterprise | Industry Member |
| 4. | An organization or corporation that sponsors ISBA | Sponsor Member |
| 5. | An STEP/TBI promoted enterprise or tenants start ups | Incubatee Member |
| 6. | An individual, who is neither an association nor an incubator, nor a sponsor but interested in the activities and promotion of business incubation | Individual Member |
STEP provides a reorientation in approach to innovation and entrepreneurship involving education, training, research, finance, management and government. It creates the necessary climate for innovation; for sharing of ideas, experience and facilities and opens up avenues for students, teachers, researchers and industrial managers to grow in a common trans-disciplinary culture, each understanding and depending on others inputs for starting a successful economic venture. The task, therefore, is to create an 'employer culture' where increasingly S&T people will seek to create their own employment. It also involves changing the existing attitude of seeking wage employment to look for a career in small business. To create an impact on this situation requires changes in the educational curriculum, in the way in which occupational choice is developed, in the way in which career advice is given and ultimately the role of small sector in wealth generation.
| List of STEPs | STEP Members of ISBA |
Technology Business Incubators (TBI)
Technology Business incubator (TBI) is the latest in the evolutionary line to develop an atmosphere for innovation and entrepreneurship; for active interaction between academics and industries; for sharing ideas, knowledge, experience and facilities and for the development of new technologies and its rapid transfer to industries through setting up of start-up companies in the emerging areas of technology techno-entrepreneurs. TBIs are located at or near technical institutions and are characterized by institutional links to knowledge sources including technology transfer agencies, research centers, national laboratories and skilled R&D personnel. TBIs promote technology transfer and diffusion while encouraging entrepreneurship among researchers and academics.
The services provided by the TBI to the incubating companies include ,among others, assessing market potential and provision of marketing assistance, business planning and training, management, technical and legal assistance, assistance in obtaining statutory approvals,technological back-up, arranging finances, IPR related assistance, equipment and infrastructure facilities of the host institution, modern workspace, and other shared common services such as fax, conference room, library.
| List of TBIs |
TBI Members of ISBA |
Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development (STED)
In the project mode, the STED project aims to bring about a socio-economic development of an area through the intervention of Science & Technology. The project envisages matching of the material and the human resources of the district to create new enterprises and employment by usage of Science & Technology processes. It involves identification of opportunities through a detailed scientific survey and exploitation of the opportunities thus identified by the entrepreneurs. The total project life is four years.
| List of STEDs |
STED Members of ISBA |
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Cells (EDC)
The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IEDC) is being promoted in educational institutions to develop institutional mechanism to create entrepreneurial culture in S&T academic institutions and to foster techno-entrepreneurship for generation of wealth and employment by S&T persons. The IEDCs are established in academic institutions (science colleges, engineering colleges, universities, management institutes) having requisite expertise and infrastructure.
| List of EDC/IEDCs |
EDC/IEDC Members of ISBA |