Ideaz is 'The Pan-IIT Business Idea Competition' organized by E-Cell, IIT Bombay in association with various organizations in different IITs.
Ideaz is designed to help students generate ideas which have the potential to be successful enterprises. It is intended to encourage a broad range of IIT undergraduates and graduate students to flesh out their ideas in business terms and form teams that combine technology and business strengths.
Who can participate?
Students from all the seven IITs at all levels of education and from any department are eligible to enter.
When does it happen?
Ideaz 2006 was launched on August 7 2006 with an inaugural workshop by Mr. Kishore Biyani, CEO Pantaloons. It concluded successfully on 1st October 2006. We will be back with Ideaz 2007 soon.
Why participate?
The benefits of participating in Ideaz is that the teams put themselves in a better position to take a step further in commercializing their idea because different issues involved in planning a business have been looked after.
Also, The top 10 entries will be provided intensive mentoring to refine their entries with a broader market perspective along with modification of their idea into a prescribed b-plan format.