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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