this regard, the institute has identified the action steps to improve the quality of curriculum making it responsive to industry needs. The institute is all into developing effective pedagogies for both experiential and classroom- based learning. Science and Technology Entrepreneur’s Park (STEP) under Thapar University is a platform for students who dream to become Entrepreneurs. It has conducted 76 entrepreneurship development programs since its inception, in the process providing hands-on training to hundreds of people, including students of various reputed institutes, teachers, researchers, farmers, NGOs, entrepreneurs and industrialists. After exiting STEP, they remain attached for consulting and other allied services.
While most business incubation centers focus on research and training, pilot-scale trials and process and product development, the one at Thapar University goes a step ahead by aiding the incubates in commercialization of technology, seeking constant feedback on the results achieved by them, to ensure incubator sustenance as a confidence-building measure and encouraging business- oriented research in the area of agro-biotechnology. These initiatives are aimed at turning the trainees into technopreneurs and agripreneurs.