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The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) Launches Business Incubator LIVE

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The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) Launches Business Incubator LIVE

The Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K) has launched its Laboratory for Innovation, Venturing and Entrepreneurship (LIVE), a business incubator and entrepreneurship development center. A proposal for LIVE was submitted by the institute in 2016, following which the Department of Science and Technology (DST) sanctioned a grant of Rs three crores. IIM-K has made available required space and facilities on campus and is developing a series of programmes and products that would ensure long term sustainability of LIVE, which has offered admission to twelve startups in its first ever job creation programme, an IIM-K release said here today. "LIVE would gain immensely from the faculty members, students, alumni, international linkages and other institutional networks of IIM-Ko...

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