SKUAST Kashmir Innovation, Incubation and Entrepreneurship Centre (SKIIE) is a Not-for-Profit Centre at Sher e Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences & Technology of Kashmir Srinagar J&K UT, dedicated to promote innovation and Entrepreneurship. It is a pedestal to help knowledge driven enterprises to establish and prosper under organized scientific guidance. It also facilitates swift commercialization of a product based on sophisticated technology. The main objective of the SKIIE Centre is to produce successful entrepreneurs/startups that will leave the program financially viable and free standing. It will create job, commercialize new technologies, and strengthen J&K’s and national economies. Incubator tenants not only benefit from business and technical assistance, they also benefit from official affiliation with the incubator, a supportive community with an entrepreneurial environment, direct link to entrepreneurs, and immediate networking and commercial opportunities with other tenant firms.

The SKIIE Centre aims to build and share resources including space and infrastructure, access to business support services, mentoring, training programmes to enhance the skills of entrepreneurs and seed funds. The scope of support is broad based, and covers technologies/IP developed wholly at the university or partly through collaborations elsewhere, as well as external start-ups with which SKUAST K members are associated as mentors. SKIIE Centre is also particularly open to proposals with strong social and strategic impact.