Facilitate Research & Development to inculcate lateral and critical thinking process for humane and technological development towards sustainable growth and existence.

Facilitate Research & Development to use frameworks and strategies for enabling a supportive environment in fostering creativity and innovation. Further to understand the relationships between creativity, innovation and technology for organizational competitive advantage.

The University School of Management Studies of Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, India, started the Entrepreneurship Development Cell in 2006 with the assistance of All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). The AICTE provided a recurring and non-recurring grant to set up Entrepreneurship Development Cell in the University School of Management Studies with its Coordinator Professor Sanjiv Mittal. Now this cell has been upgraded as the Entrepreneurship Development Centre.

The Centre is fully equipped to facilitate the conduct of activities as a part of Entrepreneurship Development among the student of the University and the School of Management in particular. Various activities are regularly conducted as a part of Entrepreneurship Development. It has signed MoU with Ministry of MSME and in particular with MSME Development Institute, Govt. of India, New Delhi to conduct various Entrepreneurship programs in the University with the assistance from MSME – Development Institute. It also entered in to MoU with Ministry of MSME through their office MSME – Development Institute, to set up Entrepreneurship Clubs throughout North India and conducting various seminars and activities as a part of the club activities. So far almost 35 E-clubs have been formed and various activities relating to Entrepreneurship Development have been conducted with the assistance of the fund provided by Ministry of MSME.

It is very instrumental in helping and guiding the students to look in for an alternative career of starting their own enterprise rather than looking in for job once they have completed their respective course if not immediately may be after few years. The Entrepreneurship Cell through its training programs that are conducted round the year, where the students are given adequate knowledge of what is business, how to set up business, how to raise firm, how to identify business opportunity, how to raise funds from the banks, how to obtain NOC from Pollution Control Board and other aspects relating to enterprise promotion and management. Many students who have attended this training programme have been benefited a lot and almost 10 % of these have converted themselves to be entrepreneurs in this own self. They have started their own enterprise either of trading, manufacturing, franchising, study center and the like. It has promoted the entrepreneurship culture among the students of the school and the university at a large. It has created additional facilities as a part of Entrepreneurship Development in terms of establishing Entrepreneurship Motivation Lab for Behavioral Testing of the students, seminar room for conducting seminars relating to Entrepreneurship Development on regular basis as well as an incubation center.

The Centre conducts various activities year round as follows.

1. Entrepreneurship Motivation Lab, where the students who have the inclination for Entrepreneurship are tested using various entrepreneurship skills and a creating enthusiasm and motivation in them using entrepreneurship motivation kits which are available for the same purpose.

2. Entrepreneurship Development Programs, which are for one week duration in which the elementary knowledge are given to the students covering the various aspects like what is business, how to set up business, how to raise firm, how to identify business opportunity, how to raise funds from the banks, how to obtain NOC from Pollution Control Board and other aspects relating to enterprise promotion and management.

3. Advanced Entrepreneurship Development Programs, are of one month duration in which the practical training are given to the students for filling various documents required at the time of raising the firm, writing a project report to be submitted for applying a bank loan, conducting a market survey to assess the demand, meetings with successful entrepreneurs to share their experiences and to understand the advantages and disadvantages of being entrepreneur and many other interactions with the official, experts of the institutions directly related with the promotion of entrepreneurship in India like NSIC, SIDBI, SME branches of banks, DPCC, NISBURD and the like.

4. Business Skill Development Programs for giving hand-on knowledge to set up business, apply for loan from a bank, conduct market research and all other activities relating to conceptualizing to formalizing to implementation.

5. Management Development Programs (MDPs) on Product Skill Training are conducted regularly for enhancing the technical skills such as on mobile repair, computer hardware, computer software, perfumery making, readymade garments etc.

Maharashtra Centre for Entrepreneurship Development (MCED) is an Autonomous organization promoted by Directorate of Industries, Government of Maharashtra, India with a vision for creating spirit of entrepreneurship globally. It is facilitating for creation of entrepreneurial and managerial capabilities in individual & organization, by achieving total customer satisfaction using emerging technologies, ethics & values to be a financially strong and globally excellent organization appropriately matching with employees' aspirations. It is an ISO 9001: 2008 certified organization with head office at Aurangabad, India. It has eight Regional offices at Mumbai, Pune, Nasik, Aurangabad, Nanded, Amaravati, Nagpur & Kolhapur and thirty five District Project offices. It has set up eleven Centers considering future activities across the state of Maharashtra, India. MCED Governing Council consists of eighteen members with eight I.A.S. Officers & Executive Committee consists of five members with two I.A.S. Officers. It is supported by approximately 3470 staff members.

It has under taken few of the new projects such as "E-Udyojak" on experimental basis, "E-Course" material for MCED courses, Digitization of records, Empanelment of Faculties & TPs, Culture of Email & Video conferencing, Use of CC TV internet broadcasting for training purpose, Integrated Watershed Management Program (IWMP), National Rural Drinking Water Program (NRDWP) & National Child Labour Project (NCLP). It has collaboration with Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India, National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, National Institute of Design, Vasundhara State Level Nodal Agency & Larsen & Toubro.

Labour Market Information Centre, Centre for Interstate Programs & Centre for Entrepreneurship Programs & Consultancy are located at Aurangabad, Centre for Innovative Programs, Resource Centre & Centre For International Programs are located at Pune, Centre For Sponsored Programs & Computer Cell ( Portal Development) located at Nasik, Centre for Liasoning with Government and Corporations is located at Mumbai, Goa Center started its new center and Nagpur Sub-centre with Rupees Two Crore Infrastructure is Coming Up soon. Its ISO Cell is located at Kolhapur. The monthly magazine "Udyojak" has more than 11,000 current subscribers

Centre for social Development (CSD) was started on democratic principles in the year 1992 after prolonged discussion and field study by the team of likeminded people with Dr. P. Bhagavatheeswaran as a Director with a vision of Preserving and promoting the local indigenous cultural heritage, harmony and artisan skills of the people and empowering socio-economically the weaker sections and discarded people of the society towards an egalitarian society. Support of the government could overcome the initial challenges to bring the unorganized weaker sections of the society to an achievable level. It is registered under FCRA & has approval of 12 AA and 80G of the I.T Act 1961, Govt. of India.

The mission of CSD is to rehabilitate and empowering both socially and economically through specialized staff team and suitable activities to the focused groups on Old age people, Destitute and Orphans, Scheduled Castes and Tribal, HIV/AIDS infected & affected, Child labor & Bonded labors, Landless Laborers and marginal farmers, Village artisans, Women, Youth and Children and Migrants. The various programs undertaken are through Awareness programs, Seminars, Workshops, Field Demonstration Programs, Skill up-gradation Training Programs, E.D.P. Training, Resource Management, Providing Micro Credit Facilities, Charitable activities, Rehabilitation Programs, General Intervention Programs & Health and Sanitation. It also undertakes various Pilot study/Survey/Investigation and the R & D Activities.

The skill-sets training given on Pottery (Terracotta, Red Clay Glazing), Fiber (Coir, Banana, Sisal), Building Materials (Stabilized mud blocks, conical tiles etc.,), Bamboo and Ethal Products Fabrication, Vermi Composting, Rain Water Harvesting and Water Recharge Pits, Palm Candy Preparation, Ginger Grass Oil Extraction, Food Processing, Low Cost Sanitation, Herbal Plantation, Tailoring and Garment Making.

The strategic approaches CSD takes are Creating mass awareness among the people about our cultural heritage and inheriting skill and science, Exploring the indigenous traditional health and medical system and rejuvenating the practice, Conducting applied research and development in the rural sectors on human resource, Promoting the empowerment process of the differentially skilled children and women, Specifically working for the comprehensive development of the single and old age men & women, orphans, women in distress, destitute and desolated women, women in trafficking, women in sex work, Working with tribal communities to understand the need of land use pattern, changes owing to the settlers and exploitation of nature resources, Community participatory green cover initiatives and water management programmes with the government and outsourced sponsored agencies, Taking special care on the HIV/AIDS affected and infected and promotes institutional care and support of the victim's community understanding.

It has wider linkage with various departments and agencies such as Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, Khadi and Village Industries Commission, Mumbai, Development Commissioner (Handicrafts), Council for Advancement of People's Action and Rural Technology, New Delhi, Tamil Nadu State AIDS Control Society, Chennai, Aids Prevention and Control, Chennai, District Rural Development Agency, NABARD Chennai, Tamil Nadu Corporation of Women Development, United Nations Children's Fund, Chennai, District Institute of Education and Training, Nagercoil, District Industries Centre, Konam, IIT-Rutag Chennai, RRL. Trivandrum, MGIRI Wardha, CGCRI Khurja, Uttar Pradesh etc.