Center of social innovation and entrepreneurship of IIT Madras (IITM) offers minor courses to all B.Tech students.

Minor specialization to all B.Tech students :
Minor is a 10 credit program

Four Minor courses offers which spread over three semesters.

Courses:
Intro to Social Enterprises in India

Product Design and Business Models

Laboratory based

Rural Field study

Research Areas of Center:
Research on funding and financial models
Identifying reasons for success and failure of social enterprises
Building a social enterprise’s organization structure
Operational aspects of social enterprises
Critiquing various business models
Legal and regulatory issues surrounding social enterprise

Research Projects :
Assessing social enterprises: The need for new parameters
Scaling-up Social Enterprises – Drivers and Challenges
Inclusive Business Models – Prospects and Challenges
Understanding the adoption dynamics of new products among people living in rural India
How Can Early Stage Social Businesses be taken to the Next Level

Address:
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Beside Adyar Cancer Institute
Opposite to C.L.R.I
Sardar Patel Rd, Adyar
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600036