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== Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship ==
=== Entrepreneurship Cell ===
The KLU Centre for Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE) was established in 2013 to foster and catalyse the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem at the university. It has produced well over two dozens of startups in the last couple of years including a few which have already broken even. The CIIE conducts an array of awareness sessions and contests to identify potential entrepreneurs and provides academic benefits to the students as well. Final year undergraduate students have the option to pursue an entrepreneurial venture instead of a regular major project, where the CIEE will provide the space and seed capital until the startup grows to a self-sustaining phase.
=== Academic Support ===
There had been limited academic support to back entrepreneurship and innovation so far with only a single full time course dedicated to Entrepreneurship. However, all the students have option to pursue two certificate courses (of 40 hours duration) in the course of their study which inculcate the basics of innovation and entrepreneurship.
However, the students who venture out with a startup are given many concessions and facilities by the university. These include
* 20 percent attendance per semester
* Option to consider their startup as the mandatory major project, thereby providing them lots of free time.
* Space in the campus to setup their operations centre.
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