This book focuses on promoting entrepreneurial ecosystems within universities and educational
institutes. It especially emphasizes the thriving systems and practices existing within the
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IITK). It discusses cases and successes of the SIDBI
Incubation and Innovation Centre in the Institute. This edited volume highlights the vision of
IITK and describes a few of the major achievements of the past few years. It especially
showcases the requirements and challenges of creating sustaining and boosting such
entrepreneurial ecosystems and incubation centres. The contents of this book will be useful to
researchers administrators and corporate collaborators working in the area of monetizing
technology coming from educational institutions by converting it to successful products and
business ideas.