Abstract:
Agri Business Incubator (ABI) have emerged as a vibrant institutional innovation
for entrepreneurship development world wide. The ABIs established in the ICAR
institutions in the State focus on their mandate areas such as plantation crops,
tuber crops, spices and fishery products. Being the pioneer institution in
agriculture and allied sectors, Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) established
network of ABIs for transforming the budding agribusiness ideas into viable
technology based product or service. This venture would help to revive the
agriculture sector through scaling up and commercialisation of the innovative
products. Since its inception in 2014, KAU-ABIs act as a platform to bring
entrepreneurs together for conducting a collective and collaborative effort to
explore opportunities to strengthen the agrarian economy. This paper portrays
the incubation process of KAU- ABI network in harnessing the resources for
establishing conducive ecosystem for the growth of the agripreneurs in Kerala.
Description:
Fourteenth Biennial Conference on Entrepreneurship/ Edited by Rajeev Sharma, Sunil Shukla, Amit Kumar Dwivedi & Ganapathi Batthini
