IIT Bombay in UK's YES 2007

Biotechnology YES is an academic business idea competition based in the UK and now open to students from India this year, from 24-26 October 2007. The programme aims to  encourage entrepreneurialism among the bioscience postgraduate and  doctorate base. Biotechnology YES is managed and organised by the  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and  University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI).  In the 12th year of YES, Indian students will be participating for the  first time and will get an opportunity to learn about entrepreneurship and  commercialisation in the UK. Two teams of five students each from India  will be attending three day workshops in Edinburgh (September) and other  two in Oxford (October). The best Indian team will showcase its business  plan in the finals to be held in London in December.

Along with the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) we selected the four  teams after a round of initial shortlisting and  a final round of  presentations in Delhi. The selected teams were identified on the basis of  their business ideas presented to a selection panel comprising of eminent  academics, an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. The intense  competition among teams from some of the best institutes in India came up  with few high quality business idea presentations among which one was from  your institute.

The students from IIT Bombay are Ayesha Chaudhary (team leader), Swati M,  Deepti Dyondi, Anubhav Kaviratna and Rahul Dev Jayant.