
Bio-incubation centre to promote entrepreneurship in J&K
Bio-incubation centre to promote entrepreneurship in J&K
Efforts to promote entrepreneurship in the Jammu and Kashmir region have got a major boost with the establishment of a bio-incubation centre called BioNESTat the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)’s Jammu-based, Indian Institute of Integrative Medicines (IIIM).
Nestled within the Himalayan biodiversity hotspot, the region is particularly rich in terms of medicinal and aromatic plants. It has immense potential for biotech startups, especially in areas such as essential oil products, medicinal mushrooms, nutraceutical products, herbal drugs, and the wellness industry.
Enterprising ideas in the biotech sector need incubation support vastly different from the IT sector. They need a landing space to test the...