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.
For Registeration:
Cohort 9 is Open for Idea Registration Kindly Contact Your Concern Department
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
Social Media Platforms Links
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/BICONpk/
- Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/BICONpk
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/BICONpk
Funding Opportunities
|
Title |
Amount |
Last Date |
Status |
| INVENT 2024 | N/A | 5th November, 2024 | closed |
| Youth Innovation Fund 2025 | BDT 300,000 | 10 November 2024 | closed |
| Venture Spark | Rs. 200,000 | 30th October, 2024 | closed |
| 11th Tameer Awards | Rs. 500,000 | 20th October, 2024 | closed |
| D-Prize | $20,000 | 24 November 2024 | open |
| STEP’24 | PKR 50,000 | August 20, 2024 | closed |
| P@SHA ICT Awards | N/A | 15th August 2024 | closed |
| Battle of Minds | £50,000 | 12th October, 2024 | closed |
| Zindigi Prize | Rs. 30 Million | 10th August 2024 | closed |
| sia Pacific’s Largest Meta Llama | $100,000 | 1st August 2024 | closed |
| Nawaz Sharif IT City (NSIT) Innovation Awards 2024 | Rs. 500,000 | 28th March 2024 | closed |
| National Idea Bank Pakistan | Rs. 100,000 | November 23, 2023. | closed |
| CAREC University Startup Generator - Link | USD 400 | 01 May, 2023 | closed |
| Entrepreneurs for Resilience Awards 2023 - Link | USD 700,000 | 23 Jan, 2023 | 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 |
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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