Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Building The Entrepreneurial Institution

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

Desai Sethi School of Entrepreneurship (DSSE)

About Programme

Educational Institutions/Universities are being asked to change faster than their systems were built to move. New disciplines, new funding realities, new expectations from students and industry, all arriving at once. IIT Bombay and the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship,Sweden, invite you to a programme built for exactly that pressure. Over one intensive day, you will explore how an entrepreneurial mindset changes the way institutional leaders set strategy and, more importantly, execute on it. Participants will get an inside look at the Swedish entrepreneurship ecosystem, including the policy choices behind it, and work to convert what they see into decisions they can actually make on their own campus. Not admiration from a distance, but transferable practice. The day works through leadership and strategy frameworks you can apply immediately and over the long term. We will dig into building a culture where innovation is normal rather than exceptional, keeping curriculum alive in a field that shifts every year, and creating the local, regional and national ecosystems your institution needs around it. Expect rapid, structured exploration rather than lectures. You will spend the day thinking alongside peers who lead institutions like yours, and leave with your own plan taking shape.

Programme Content

The Swedish model, up close. How six Stockholm universities built a shared entrepreneurship school, and what actually made it work. Real examples, including the parts that were hard. The entrepreneurial mindset for leaders. Not theory about founders, but the specific habits and practices that change how you make institutional decisions. Strategy that survives contact with reality. How to evolve your strategy when your local and national environment keeps shifting under you. VUCA is the label; the question is what you do on Monday. Leading when you do not have the answers. Practical approaches to decision making, communication and commitment under genuine uncertainty. Spreading it beyond the business school. How entrepreneurial thinking travels across disciplines and departments, so it becomes an institutional capability rather than one unit's mandate.

Programme Benefits

HANDS ON FACILITY:
This programme runs inside IIT Bombay's new Desai Sethi School of Entrepreneurship building, a six storey, 115,000 square foot facility purpose built for innovation and among the very few of its kind anywhere. That matters more than it sounds. Most conversations about entrepreneurial culture happen in seminar rooms, which is precisely the problem. Here you will move through makerspaces where ideas become physical prototypes, tinkering labs built for experimentation, design studios where vision turns into something you can hold, micro factories for scaling concepts, and co working spaces where students, faculty and founders work side by side. Faculty offices sit inside the same ecosystem rather than down a separate corridor, which is itself a design decision worth studying. Walking through a working environment tells you things a slide deck cannot. You will see how physical space either invites experimentation or quietly discourages it, and you will leave with a sharper sense of what your own campus enables and what it accidentally blocks. The day itself is built for doing, not listening. Expect rapid, structured exploration, small group work with peers who lead institutions like yours, and frameworks you apply to your own context in the room rather than take home to attempt later. You will test ideas against people facing the same pressures, get challenged on your assumptions, and leave with a plan that has already survived some scrutiny. Facilitators from the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship bring the Swedish model into the room, joined by IIT Bombay faculty who understand the Indian institutional reality you are returning to. The combination is deliberate. Inspiration on its own rarely changes anything. Inspiration translated into decisions you can actually make is what this day is for.

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