Business Incubation Center of NUML (B ICON)
Overview of BICON
Business Incubation Center of NUML (B ICON) is a flagship project of Higher Education Commission (HEC) and formally started its operations in October 2016. B ICON triggers entrepreneurial spirit, provides state-of-the-art infrastructure, supports problem solving innovation, strengthens business development. B ICON promotes the entrepreneurial culture for the start-ups, accelerators and spin-offs from the students, alumni and faculty members.
We encourage business ideas from students, alumni and faculty members to register for different batches / Cohort.
We help to flourish your basic ideas into business opportunities. We help you to link with Industrial experts for grooming your ideas. We also provide funding opportunities by the National and International Organizations. Teams from regional campuses can also apply.
Link for: Idea Registration
Cohort 7 is Open for Idea Registration till 24 October
What We Offer
- BICON Hall for providing place to Incubates
- Idea Room for Discussions and Sessions
- Meeting Place for Clients and other Companies
- Free Internet, No charges for facilities at Incubation Hall
Mentoring support for faculty and student Startups - Furnished co-working space
- Support for video-conferencing rooms, meeting rooms, discussion rooms, idea room, conference rooms and auditorium.
- Free trainings / capacity building sessions / Mentorship
- Meet ups with industry experts / practitioners
Funding Opportunities
|
Title |
Amount |
Last Date |
Status |
| CAREC University Startup Generator - Link | USD 400 | 01 May, 2023 | Closed |
| Entrepreneurs for Resilience Awards 2023 - Link | USD 700,000 | 23 Jan, 2023 | Closed |
| Global Digital Startup Hackathon - Link | UKP 9,000 | 16 Dec, 2022 | Closed |
| INNOVATOR SEED FUND (ISF) 2023 - Link | USD 35,000 | 06 Jan, 2023 | Closed |
| TiE Global University Program 2023 - Link | USD 100,000 | 15 Jan, 2023 | Closed |
| Prime Minister National Innovation Award - Link | Rs. 2,000,000 | 30 Nov, 2022 | Closed |
| SkipQ Traings and Placement in 6 weeks - Link | Rs. 80,000 (Salary/person) | 19 Sep, 2022 | Closed |
| DICE Mega Event 2022- Link | Rs. 100,000, 50,000, 25,000 | 30 July, 2022 | Closed |
| Full Stack and Cloud DevOps Training at SkipQ- Link | Rs. 80,000 (Stipend/student) | 25 July, 2022 | Closed |
| Young Women Mentorship Program 2022- Link | Fully Funded | 08 July, 2022 | Closed |
| Unilever Safety Hackathon 2022- Link | Cash Prize | 15 June, 2022 | Closed |
| Full Stack and Cloud DevOps Training at SkipQ- Link | Rs. 80,000 (Salary/person) | 12 June, 2022 | Closed |
| TiE Women Global Pitching Competition 2022- Link | USD 100,000 | 31 May, 2022 | Closed |
|
Innovation Challenge 2022 (Inter-University Business Plan Competition)- Link |
Rs. 60,000, 30,000, 20,000 | 25 May, 2022 | Closed |
| Full Stack and Cloud DevOps Training at SkipQ- Link | Rs. 80,000 (Salary/person) | 18 May, 2022 | Closed |
| Climate Launchpad- Link | €10,000 | April - June 2022 | Closed |
| Open Global Contest (For Product Development) - Link | USD 10,000 | Mid 2022 | Closed |
| Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - Link | Sponsored Trainings | 15 April | Closed |
| Common Fund for Comodities - Link | USD 300,000 - 1.5 Milions | 15 April | Closed |
| Full Stack and Cloud DevOps - Link | Rs. 80,000 (Salary) | 05 April | Closed |
| K-Electric 7/11+ Innovation Challenge - Link | Rs, 03 Millions | 26 March | Closed |
| SkipQ Traings and Placement in 6 weeks - Link | Rs. 80,000 (Salary) | 14 March | Closed |
|
HULT Prize - Link |
USD 1,00,000 |
13 March |
Closed |
|
SMEDA Growth Stage Start-Up Grant - Link |
Rs. 500,000 |
04 March |
Closed |
|
TiE Global Uni Idea Competition |
USD 100,000 |
15 Feb |
Closed |
|
Innovators Seed Fund - Link |
USD 35000 |
25 January |
Closed |
|
Pakistan Startup Cup 2022 |
Rs. 3.2 Millions |
Dec, 2021 |
Closed |
Roles and Responsibilities of BICON
- Promote faculty, students and alumni to start their businesses.
- Facilitate the access to laboratories, libraries, ICT-facilities, technical workforce, subject matter experts, and seed-funding opportunities.
- Provide guidance, including lectures, mentoring, access to materials, and technical advice on launching startups,
- Encourage the startups to generate opportunities for students to get internships, part-time and full-time jobs
- Transfer the skills and lessons from the incubators to the other universities to enhance the competitiveness and networking
- Provide physical infrastructure to entrepreneurs for incubation and Co-working space.
- Select business strategies for;
- protecting intellectual property
- mobilizing resources
- converting innovative ideas into successful enterprises.
Location: B ICON office, First floor, Ibn e Rushd Block, Near Gate 3, NUML, Islamabad
Timings: Morning: 08:00:00-13:30:00
Evening: 14:00:00-19:00:00
Contact: Phone: +92-51-9265100 ext 2040, Director: 2039
Email: info@bicon.numl.edu.pk
Social Media Links: Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088434801936
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bicon-numl-95092225a/
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