ALL INDIA BUSINESS PLAN COMPETITION
9TH DECEMBER, 2011

The Business Plan: An Introduction
Grassroots innovations are manifestation of articulated and unarticulated need, which with right value addition, product positioning and finance could be turned into goldmine. With the objective of fulfilling up scaling grassroots innovations and instances knowledge, NIILM Centre for Management Studies, Greater Noida “Business Plan Competition” which gives students an opportunity to convert innovations and traditional knowledge at grassroots into practical business propositions. Students from management institutions, business schools will participate to prepare the business plans for commercially attractive technologies

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Objectives of Business Plan:
It serves the primary objectives of
- Enabling students synergize their business acumen with grassroots genius. In the process, they can bring their classroom learning’s into practice and understand the ground realities of setting up enterprises,
- Helping students acquire entrepreneurial skills. Grassroots innovations and indigenous knowledge examples can be taken up by the students for setting up their own enterprise and commercializing the innovations
- Identifying the prospective entrepreneurs and mentors for commercializing the technologies.

The following are the deliverables expected from the participants of the Case contest: Business proposal
o Business concept
o Product (with/without possible value addition in existing Innovation) Market analysis and Strategy
o Financial analysis/ requirements and projections
o Legal Aspects/Govt. Policy Aspects Involved
o Company structure and management
o Infrastructure and operational requirements
o Action Plan/Implementation
o Risks Involved and Contingency plans
o Any other deliverable that contestant finds to be relevant to the plan

Rules and Regulations
1. Each team should have a minimum of TWO and maximum of FOUR members.
2. All the members in a team may be of any year MBA / PGP / PGP-RM / FPM or equivalent programs.

The Business plan should not exceed thirty pages or less.
The font should be Times New Roman, size 12 with spacing of 1.5 lines. The entry should be having one of .doc, .rtf or .pdf formats. Excel sheets can be attached if required (giving reference to the same in main entry)
Participants should not mention their name or the name of their institutions anywhere else other than the cover page

First Prize: Rs. 10000 + Trophy & Merit Certificates
Second Prize: Rs. 5000 + Trophy & Merit Certificates
Third Prize: Rs. 2000 + Trophy & Merit Certificates