Take off with the Double advantage of a Start-up and an MBA from the Crescent Startup Runway.
MBA – IEV (Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Venture Development) is a two year full time post graduation programme approved by AICTE and Ministry of Education – Innovation Cell. BSA Crescent Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai is one among the 21 select institutions in India that are approved to offer this unique programme to create future employers, not employees.
MBA – IEV curriculum blends key conceptual modules that are essential for future entrepreneurs with experiential learning modules and the programme will be delivered by Scholarly & Practitioner faculty, Industry stalwarts and Entrepreneurs at Crescent School of Business (CSB) & Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council (CIIC).
Students can nurture their business ideas in the co-working spaces of CIIC under the mentorship of domain and vertical experts. CIIC is a great forum that provides students an opportunity to interact with various entrepreneurs, industry experts, government officials, angel investors and venture capitalists to convert their ideas into a viable venture.
Salient Features of MBA – IEV at CSB and CIIC
• Unique Programme approved by AICTE and Ministry of Education- Innovation Cell
• Opportunity to raise your own Start-up as part of the MBA IEV course
• Innovative, Experiential and Practice oriented programme
• Pre-incubation and Incubation support with Co-working spaces
• Industry stalwarts and Entrepreneurs as advisors and faculty
• 1 to 1 expert mentoring to each candidate
• Opportunity to establish technology ventures with patent rights
• Funding facilitated from Government, NGOs, Angel investors etc.,
Eligibility
• Bachelor’s degree from a recognised institution with a minimum of 50% marks
• Final-year students can also apply (candidates will have to submit original certificate of having graduated and mark sheet of the final-year degree examination while joining the course)
• Valid score in CAT, XAT, CMAT, ATMA, MAT, GMAT, TANCET or Crescent School of Business Admission Test (CSBAT)
Click here to view the Board of Advisors for MBA – IEV Programme
Crescent Innovation & Incubation Council (CIIC) is under the ambit of B.S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science and Technology which is deemed to be University under Section 3 of UGC Act 1956.
CIIC has been established as a Section-8 not for profit company and registered under Indian Companies Act 2013.
CIIC acts as a “One Stop Shop – Startup Incubator” for startups that facilitates entrepreneurial & innovative ecosystem to all the stakeholders including the students, faculty members, industries, investors, and society at large.
CIIC is presently focusing on the disruptive technologies in the domains of Life Sciences, Industry 4.0, Smart & Clean Mobility & Defence.
CIIC has a built-in space of 1,00,000 sq. ft of dedicated space available across strategic locations: Chennai, Madurai, and Bangalore.
Additionally,AIC-Crescent Innovation and Incubation Council, funded by NITI AAYOG, will soon commence operations in the CLEANTECH sector, with a specific focus on Smart and Clean Mobility.
CIIC has currently incubated 135 startups, out of which 75 are in Life Sciences, 40 from Industry 4.0, 12 from Smart & Clean Mobility and 8 from Defence startups.
CIIC has facilitated the startups in raising funds from 7 union ministries.
CIIC’s support mantra is Triple M’s – MONEY, MENTOR, MARKET.
CIIC emphasizes the mantra of ‘patents to start-ups’ and supports 70+ patents.
Live demonstration with Launchpad facilities for the startup products at the incubator premises.
Access to the mentor pool with 100+ national and international mentors from industry and academia.
1293+ Jobs created.
Startups | 129 |
Patents (IPRS) | 118 |
Mentors | 70 |
Awards | 96 |
Jobs created | 1293 |
Startup Grants | 34 Cr |
Govt & Private Investments | 225 Cr |
Startup Sales Turnover | 293 Cr |
Services Offered
• SYPA Ecosystem Building Award 2019
• Most Innovative Startup Award awarded to “Extreme Fire”
• Most Scalable Startup Award awarded to “Impensus Electronics”
• PMI Chennai Chapter Sangama Top Innovator Winner Award awarded to “Green Flora Biosciences Pvt. Ltd.”
• 3rd Place in Sandvick India Gender Award awarded to “Ravikas”
• MMA Chinnikrishnan Innovation Award awarded to “Rekindle Automations Pvt. Ltd.”
• AFI Silicon Valley Challenge (SVC) Trek Award awarded to “Farmagain Agro Pvt.Ltd. ”
• AFI Silicon Valley Challenge (SVC) Trek Award awarded to “WeGot Utility Solutions Pvt. Ltd.”
• PMI Chennai Chapter Sangama Top Innovator Runner Award awarded to “KankyoCleantech (India) Pvt. Ltd.”
• IoTNEXT Award awarded to “Farmagain Agro Pvt. Ltd.”
• Reynlabs (a startup incubated in CIIC) received STEM Accreditation awarded to “Reynlab”
• Signed MoU with 4 European Business Incubatorawarded to “CIIC”
• 3rd Top Private Bioincubator in the country by a renowned magazine called “Biospectrum” awarded to “CIIC”
• CIIC is the first incubator in TamilNadu to support startups to obtain a total of 17 IVP grants given by EDII-TN
• CIIC is a proud Silver Sponsor of the Global Bio-India 2021 organised by Department of Biotechnology- BIRAC, Govt of India held on the 1st of March 2020
• CIIC is selected by Startup India, DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, GoI for STARTUP INDIA SEED FUND SCHEME (SISFS) for an amount of Rs. 5 Crore.
The Programme Structure
The curriculum of MBA IEV programme comprises of Startup and Entrepreneurship oriented courses, Skill Certifications, Capstone Projects and Action Learning Segments. With an objective to connecting theory of innovation and entrepreneurship with practice and enabling students to acquire skills, this outcome oriented programme is designed to be delivered in phases that facilitate the transformation students to become entrepreneurs at the end of the course. The participants shall learn modules on management of innovation, entrepreneurship and venture development from foundation to advanced stages and simultaneously apply their entrepreneurial skills in real life situations, validate ideas, build innovations, test market and build a successful venture out of it.
This course has four semesters and two Action Learning Segments and three Capstone Projects to enable students to learn to recognize, create and shape a business opportunity, develop leadership and build a start-up team, construct business models, and assess market feasibility for launching new start-ups.
CURRICULUM & SYLLABI | |
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1 | MBA (IEV) – Regulations 2021 (Amended upto April 2023) |
Sl.No. | Course Group | Course Code | Course Title | L | T | P | C |
1 | CC | IEV 6101 | Entrepreneurial and Managerial Thinking | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
2 | CC | IEV 6102 | Entrepreneurial Eco System | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
3 | CC | IEV 6103 | Innovation Management and Design Thinking | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
4 | CC | IEV 6104 | Economic Perspectives for Entrepreneurs | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
5 | CC | IEV 6105 | Research orientation | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
6 | CC | IEV 6106 | Creating Business Values | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
SKC | Skill Certification* | 3 | |||||
Capstone Project | |||||||
7 | PROJ | IEV 6108 | Idea Generation and Proof of concept | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Credits | 24 |
Abbreviations:
CC – Core Course, PEC – Professional Elective Course, SKC – Skill Certifications, PROJ- Capstone Projects, AL – Action Learning, PSC- Project Specific Course
Sl. No. | Course Group | Course Code | Course Title | L | T | P | C |
1 | PEC | Professional Elective Courses | – | – | – | 6 | |
2 | CC | IEV 6202 | Essentials of Business Plan | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | AL | IEV 6205 | Action Learning I | 0 | 0 | 25 | 14 |
4 | SKC | Skill certification* | 4 | ||||
Capstone Project | |||||||
5 | PROJ | IEV 6206 | Formulation of business plan and development of proto type | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
Credits | 29 |
Sl.No. | Course Group | Course Code | Course Title | L | T | P | C |
1 | PEC | Professional Elective Courses | – | – | – | 16 | |
2 | PSC | Project Specific course | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
3 | SKC | Skill certification* | 4 | ||||
Capstone Project | |||||||
4 | PROJ | IEV 6307 | Development of Business Model | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 |
Credits | 28 |
Sl. No. | Course Group | Course Code | Course Title | L | T | P | C |
1 | SKC | Skill certification* | 3 | ||||
2 | AL | IEV 6402 | Action Learning II | 2 | 2 | 20 | 20 |
Credits |
23 |
*Skill certifications can be earned flexibly across 4 semesters
S.No. | Course Group | Subject Code | Course Name | L | T | P | C |
1 | PEC | IEV 6201 | Feasibility Analysis | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
2 | PEC | IEV 6203 | Business Plan validation | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | PEC | IEV 6204 | Operations Management | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
4 | PEC | IEV 6207 | Managing Disruptive Technologies | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
5 | PEC | IEV 6208 | Strategic Management | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
6 | PEC | IEV 6209 | International Trade and Economic Environment | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
7 | PEC | IEV 6210 | Management Information System | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
8 | PEC | IEV 6301 | Entrepreneurial Leadership | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
9 | PEC | IEV 6302 | Venture Growth & Technology | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
10 | PEC | IEV 6303 | People Management | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
11 | PEC | IEV 6304 | Entrepreneurial Marketing & Sales Strategy | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
12 | PEC | IEV 6305 | Business Structure | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
13 | PEC | IEV 6306 | Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Funding | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
14 | PEC | IEV 6308 | Business–to–Business Marketing | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
15 | PEC | IEV 6309 | Financial Technology | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
16 | PEC | IEV 6310 | E-Commerce technology | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
17 | PEC | IEV 6311 | Service Operations Management | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
18 | PEC | IEV 6312 | Managing Family Business | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
19 | PEC | IEV 6313 | Sustainability Management | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Course content will be provided by the organization that offers the certification and hence only the courses are listed in the regulations.
S.No. | Subject Code | Skill certification topics |
1 | IEVY 001 | Design Thinking & Business Communication |
2 | IEVY 002 | Foundations of Business Analytics |
3 | IEVY 003 | Business Communication |
4 | IEVY 004 | Design Thinking |
5 | IEVY 005 | Business Simulations |
6 | IEVY 006 | Introductory Entrepreneurship |
7 | IEVY 007 | Foundations of Entrepreneurship |
8 | IEVY 008 | Foundations of Accounting |
9 | IEVY 009 | Negotiation |
10 | IEVY 010 | Digital Marketing |
11 | IEVY 011 | IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) |
12 | IEVY 012 | Logistics & Supply chain management |
13 | IEVY 013 | Financial Business modeling |
14 | IEVY 014 | Social Enterprise Management |
15 | IEVY 015 | Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
16 | IEVY 016 | Advanced Excel |
17 | IEVY 017 | Business Analytics Models |
18 | IEVY 018 | Sustainability Management |
19 | IEVY 019 | Alternative Investments |
20 | IEVY 020 | Business Strategy |
21 | IEVY 021 | Leadership |
22 | IEVY 022 | Global Business |
23 | IEVY 023 | Financial Management |
24 | IEVY 024 | Family Business Management |
25 | IEVY 025 | Disruptive Strategy |
26 | IEVY 026 | Artificial Intelligence |
27 | IEVY 027 | Machine Learning |
S.No. | Course Group | Subject Code | Course Name | L | T | P | C |
1 | PSC | IEVY 051 | Consumer Behaviour | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
2 | PSC | IEVY 052 | Product and Brand Management | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
3 | PSC | IEVY 055 | Security analysis and Portfolio Management | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
4 | PSC | IEVY 056 | Talent Acquisition and Retention | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
5 | PSC | IEVY 059 | Food and AgriTech Business | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |