NEN INSTITUTIONAL CAPABILITY EVOLUTION MODEL

Over nearly a decade, NEN has worked with over 500 institutions in India and helped them create an experiential educational model that will encourage and grow entrepreneurship. Based on this experience NEN has created the Institutional Capability Evolution model.

Successful programs create, engage and sustain a variety of activities and programs on campus in order to build and grow their capability and achieve annual milestones that secure their progress. The table below gives an indicative range of activities that successful institutions engage in so that they can evolve from an INSPIRE to a SUPPORT stage. This evolution typically would take three to five years on average for an institution.
INSPIRE INSTITUTION
Management commitment and public support.

ENGAGE

CREATE

SUPPORT
Incubating OR formal courses or programs for supporting entrepreneurs and startups

Structured programs Have intense real world experience, running courses or workshops, along with regular structured activities on campus Running programs that impart key concepts, develop a skill or develop the ability to use an entrepreneurial tool (like 7 Domains). Minimum 6 activities per school year. Activities include : Entrepreneur talks, games, competitions, workshops, discussion forums Teaching courses & leading programs that provide intense real world experience for the students, for eg., a campus company, student enterprises Strategic approach to activities, that includes defining goals of the E Cell, reviewing past activities and outcomes, and building on the learning.

FACULTY

Facilitating the support of the institute and management for running E Cell activities

Teaching workshop or course for entrepreneurs. Mentoring student and community entrepreneurs

STUDENTS

Self declared members of an ECell

Engaging with organizations outside the institute, for example: E Cells, associations, alumni clubs, etc. This could be to share resources or co-produce programs.

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