Innovation & Entrepreneurship center

Establishment of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (IEC) is part of the vision and perspective Plan of National Science &Technology Innovation Policy 2012 of Pakistan including the province of Sindh, following are key objectives:

• To promote scientific and technological research & development
• To develop skills of innovation and entrepreneurship among students and employees of MUET, so that they can start their own businesses
• To promote innovation and development of indigenous technologies for new products, processes or improvement of the existing ones and introduce them to promote entrepreneurship and business through start-ups
• To help potential entrepreneurs such as students, graduates, faculty of Mehran University of Engineering & Technology in particular and other institutions, industry and general public to incubate their technology based and other innovative start-up companies
• To provide support to departments, Institutes and Centers of Mehran University of Engineering and Technology for patenting their R&D work and protection of Intellectual Property rights
• To provide marketing facilities to MUET entrepreneurs
• To Liaison with private/public sector enterprises and funding sources like government agencies, industrial associations, chambers and Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FPCCI) to provide facilitation and networking for incubation of startup companies
• To develop “Triple Helix Relationship” among the university academia, private/public sector enterprises and government agencies for promoting local and regional socio-economic development

Current National Projects implemented at IEC

Student Startup Business Competition

Research Incubation in Public Sector Universities (RINU)

AppIdea2R

Pre-Incubation Project

Virtual incubation - IdeaGist International  

Youth Empowering by Entrepreneurship - Higher Education Commission