PANJIM: Elated by the good response to seven incubation centres operating in different places, the State government is contemplating increasing the count to 15 in the next two years.
Around 100 companies have been given working space at the existing centres and Goa State Innovation Council (GSInC), formed in 2016 to encourage more incubation centres, aims at bringing 200 companies by 2020.
“The Council is already working towards increasing the number of incubation centres from the existing seven to 15 by the year 2020. As the digit doubles, the companies too will increase to 200 or more. It will be possible when we set up these centres across all the institutes in the State providing technology education like engineering colleges, polytechnic colleges and others,” GSInC chairman Jose Manuel Noronha said.
The Council has set up a roadmap for which it has been holding seminars, workshops and lectures on related subjects at Goa University, colleges, higher education institutions, medium and small scale industries and research and development industries.
The seven centers include two centres for Incubation and Business Acceleration (CIBA) and one each at Don Bosco, Economic Development Corporation’s Inspire, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Goa Institute of Management and Manovikas School. These Centres are working on Information Technology (IT) and IT-Enabled Services (ITES) while the remaining are aligned in the food processing sector.
Noronha said that the government should make incubation centres compulsory at all technical institutes and science-based colleges.
