BIRAC-Call For Proposal

BIRAC ANNOUNCES CALL FOR PROPOSAL FOR BIRAC ENABLING DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH OF ENTERPRISES EDGE CENTERS Last Date has been extended till 28th February, 2025 05:00 PM

BIRAC, a not-for-profit Section 8, Public Sector Enterprise, set up under the aegis of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, announces a program “BIRAC Enabling Development and Growth of Enterprises (EDGE) Centers,” to facilitate the growth of the ecosystem by supporting several individual components driving development, commercialization, and market penetration of biotech and bio-based products and technologies.

 

Click here to view RFP

Proposals are invited for BIRAC EDGE Centers broadly under the following categories:

  1. Internationalization of Indian biotech Startups, SMEs and companies (Category: EDGE-Int)
  2. Capacity Building for Bio-Incubation Ecosystem (Category: EDGE-Incubate)
  3. Advancing and Accelerating Entrepreneurship (Category: EDGE-Accelerate)
  4. Capacity Building for Facilitating Investments (Category: EDGE-Inv)
  5. Field Validation (Category: EDGE-FV)
  6. Promoting bio-based strengths of NER to boost local entrepreneurship (Category: EGDE-NER)

The proposals can be submitted by one or more Indian legal entities under the following categories:

Operating as an incubator

  • In existence for at least 3 years
  • Has a full-time lead
  • Has supported at least 25 startups in the Biotech domain

Operating as an independent Innovation Enabling Organization/Entrepreneurial Support Organization (ESO):

  • In existence for at least 3 years
  • Has a full-time lead
  • Has demonstrated relevant expertise and experience in providing niche support with regard to the category of EDGE Centre applied for.

     

*For more details, please refer to the RFP

Proposals are required to be submitted online only. For submission of proposals, applicants need to register with BIRAC through “User Registration” Additional information on user registration and proposal submission is available online at the BIRAC website, www.birac.nic.in.

No Hard Copy is to be submitted.

 

For queries, please write to:

 

Ms. Rashmika Singh

Deputy Manager-Partnerships & Technology Commercialization

Email: sped-5[at]birac[dot]nic[dot]in

 

Ms. Shilpy Kochhar

Head-Business Development & Communications

Head (Incharge)-SPED, Additional Charge

Email: spedo2[dot]birac[at]nic[dot]in

Announcement Date: 16-01-2025
Last Submission Date: 28-02-2025 05:00 PM

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