About National Design Business Incubator

NDBI is part of a commitment of NID to build on India's design strengths. NDBI not only supports designers to turn their ideas and concepts into successful competitive businesses but also provides an environment where they can develop the essential business management skills and systems that enable them to grow.

Our Mission

Foster successful 'Designpreneurship' aimed at developing intrinsic capabilities amongst the industry and grow into an incubator employing 1000 designers by 2015 across the nation.

Our Vision

Achieve and synergize design-technology leadership for India by making 'Designed in India, Made for the World' a reality. 

Objective/Mandate

The main objective of NDBI is to promote young design focused entrepreneurs. The mandate of NDBI is to nurture a culture of entrepreneurship in the creative minds of young designers, so that their ideas metamorphose into newer and niftier products or services capable of being marketed and sold. The outcome is creation of a new class of entrepreneurs, the Designpreneurs.

> Nurturing culture of innovation and design-led entrepreneurship
> Pre-incubation counseling support to budding innovators seeking incubation support
> Assessing design-led ideas for feasibility and business potential
> Help in giving shape to innovative ideas leveraging the power of design
> Facilitating financial support for entrepreneurship
> Design Audit
> Counseling support till exit

A business incubator's main goal is to create successsful firms that will leave the program financially viable and freestanding. Successful incubatees would have the potential to commercialize idea, create jobs and ultimately contribute to the national economy.

NDBI focuses:

> An entrepreneurial and learning environment
> Ready access to mentors
> Timely guidance for seeking Seed/VC fund
> Infrastructural support for early commercialization of ideas
> Venture ready Fund to needy and eligible startups by inviting applications through
   newspapers across India
> Design Consultancy
> Design / IP Registration
> Design Clinics / Workshops
> Creation of design awareness and consciousness amongst MSMEs
> Empowering people who dare to dream
> Mind to market approach to foster new enterprises and jobs.

Types of Incubation at NDBI

> Physical
> Virtual