NEN
National Entrepreneurship Network or NEN is a community dedicated to fostering entrepreneurship. Services focus on providing institutional capacity building, entrepreneur support, entrepreneurial eco-system and national platforms. The goal of the community is to enable new and future entrepreneurs to access events and resources, share ideas and content, organize and market activities, and forge relationships across India and the world. Programs include a variety of supports including competitions. They are located in Bangalore.​​
Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology [GCET] has its Entrepreneurship Development Cell [EDC] popularly known as IDEA DIMENSION in the campus since the A.Y 2008-09.
Idea Dimension was supported by the National Entrepreneurship Network (NEN), a Wadhwani foundation. Idea Dimension, in turn, builds institutional capacity for creating entrepreneurs. It also develops and inspires a pool of aspiring entrepreneurs; through exposure to leadership and skills-building programs providing access to experts and mentors. The college management provides the necessary financial support for the smooth conduct of all the NEN-Idea Dimension activities. Idea Dimension has its own premises guided by faculty with rich industrial experience, externally supported by NEN and all the activities are financed by management. Idea Dimension can be visited at http://nen.gctc.in/
Objectives of Entrepreneurship Development Cell
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To provide information on all aspects of enterprise building to the students of Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology.
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To organize training programs, competitions, awareness camps etc. to promote entrepreneurship among the students of Geethanjali College of Engineering and Technology.
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To assist prospective entrepreneurs in the preparation of project reports