Chair Professor, Symbiosis Centre for Entrepreneurship & Innovation (SCEI), Pune, India
In this role, Dr. Chinchure created a vision for the SCEI, and led the centre towards its overarching goal of creating innovation-led entrepreneurs and strengthening the entrepreneurial ecosystem within India.
SCEI is focused on Education, Incubation, Research, and Policy in the areas related to innovation and entrepreneurship.
The main activities of this centre include:
- Incubating startups at SIU in partnership with other organisations
- Conducting research in the area of innovation and entrepreneurship from both Indian and global context
- Providing training and education to the students at SIU and corporate employees in the areas of innovation and entrepreneurship
- Providing policy recommendation at the national and state level
Program Design & Development
Dr. Chinchure designed and implemented India’s first two-year residential and experiential MBA course on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, at one of the country’s leading business schools - Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), Pune.
The program runs under the name MBA IN INNOVATION & ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
The course is structured with semester-specific goals in mind and meets the following objectives:
- Identifying innovation opportunity in the first semester, developing solutions in the second semester, designing & prototyping the solution in the third semester and implementing the solution in a small scale in the last semester.
- Learning by doing, through inspired experiential learning with the help of a well balanced curriculum to cover all areas of innovation, entrepreneurship and management.
Teaching
At the SCEI, he teaches the following subjects to management and law students:
- Fundamentals of Innovation
- Global and Indian Mega Trends
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in India
- Social Entrepreneurship
- Science, Technology, Innovation and IPR
- Intellectual Property & Technology Management
- Sectorial Innovations
- Venture Investment
