Some of the important initiatives towards incubating and nurturing innovations and entrepreneurship and startup among the IGNOU students and Alumni are as follows:

The IGNOU Udyami Scheme aims at identifying the established and budding innovator and entrepreneur students and alumni of IGNOU and they are given due recognition and support by a scheme of Recognizing IGNOU Student Entrepreneurs (RISE) as a part of the IGNOU Udyami portal. For more information, click here

IGNOU has implemented an online portal for creating a repository of the ideas of the students. Through the portal students involved in various activities and workshops organized by NCIDE can submit their ideas. These ideas are further supported and nurtured by the NCIDE.

In order to promote, support and nurture the innovator students of IGNOU interested in setting up their startups, the University has initiated a scheme of “Idea to Startup” for its students. This scheme basically supports and promotes the Startup India scheme of the Govt. of India. The selected potential entrepreneurs are provided guidance, training and mentorship on regular basis.