An entrepreneurship and innovation centre works best as a compact incubation hub rather than a full academic school, co-locating maker-space with an existing design/fabrication lab and demo-day events with the central auditorium, rather than duplicating large-format spaces the campus already has. EROCON designs incubation hubs across India around this space-sharing logic.
Our feasibility team helps universities decide what to build dedicated versus what to share with existing schools, and EROCON delivers the incubation hub construction through EPC.
India's startup ecosystem is the third-largest in the world, with over 2.23 lakh DPIIT-recognised startups and 700+ active incubation programmes supporting them nationwide.
UGC / Startup India recognition (institutional incubator norms, where the university is seeking government incubator funding).
Should an entrepreneurship centre have its own maker-space?
No, the recommended approach is to co-locate its maker-space with the School of Design’s fabrication lab rather than duplicating 3D printers, laser cutters and CNC equipment across two schools.
Does an incubation hub need a large-format presentation hall?
No, demo days and pitch events are typically planned to use the central campus auditorium rather than building a dedicated large-format space within the hub itself.
How flexible does the incubation space need to be?
Very. Resident-founder headcount fluctuates cohort to cohort, so Startup Incubation Cubicles are planned as individually desked but reconfigurable, not fixed like an academic classroom block.
EROCON’s feasibility team helps universities decide what to build dedicated versus what to share with existing schools, and EROCON delivers the incubation hub construction through EPC, sized right for a flexible, cohort-driven space.