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Dr. Balachandran A Ph.D
Balachandran, Senior General Manager, VIT-Technology Business Incubator (VIT-TBI) is a Mechanical Engineer with an MBA; holds a Ph.D in Management from Anna University. He is the Vice President of Indian STEPs and Business Incubators Association (ISBA) from 1st April’18 and was a governing body member of ISBA from 2009 to 2014.
He has around thirty years of ‘Techno-commercial’ experience and is in-charge of VIT-TBI from its inception in the year 2003. He mentored and assisted a number of startups and many innovators during the last 17 years. He has been coordinating a number of innovation and entrepreneurship programs (training, funding and capacity development) with the support of various departments of Govt.of India. He successfully executed a project for incubation capacity building initiatives under World Banks’ infoDev program during 2006-07. He coordinated a ‘Youth Entrepreneurship Skills Development Initiative’ project supported by UNIDO for building entrepreneurship and incubation capacity building targeting four West African countries during 2012. He has raised a grant from Biotechnology Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) to set up a BioNEST Bioincubation program @ VIT-TBI during 2017. He is coordinating the NIDHI PRAYAS Scheme of DST at VITTBI and MeitY supported TIDE 2.0 incubation program.
He is a certified mentor in the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), certified infoDev (The World Bank Group) Business Incubation Trainer and a certified Enterprise Development and Investment Promotion (EDIP) trainer under a UNIDO-CII-DST program. He is passionate about Technology startups, grooming students and assisting innovators.