Upskilling for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Careers

For careers outside academia, particularly getting into industry and entrepreneurial endeavors, additional skill sets are needed beyond one's academic degrees. Skills to translate, transform or extend knowledge from one field or application to another help us contribute to the business of the companies. Innovation and entrepreneurial skills provide a pathway for commercialization of our own creative ideas and inventions through start-ups thus transforming oneself from an employment seeker to an employment creator. In this presentation, we will discuss the needs of the above skills in detail and also briefly mention about our work on capacity building in such skills in many developing countries.