{"id":298191,"date":"2019-10-28T11:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=298191"},"modified":"2019-10-28T11:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T06:27:02","slug":"iim-kozhikode-mrpl-to-support-women-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iim-kozhikode-mrpl-to-support-women-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"IIM Kozhikode, MRPL to support women entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IIM Kozhikode and Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) have announced a drive called La Eve (The Woman) that will identify innovative women-founded start-ups and provide support. It\u2019ll be steered by IIMK\u2019s entrepreneurship development centre, Laboratory for Innovation, Venturing and Entrepreneurship, or IIMK LIVE. MRPL entered into an MoU with IIMK last year; since then it has provided seed funds to 11 start-ups incubated at IIMK LIVE.<\/p>\n<p>AI\/ML drive growth for corporate India<br \/>\nA survey of 307 corporates has found upskilling in AI\/ML, digital marketing and design thinking is crucial to drive growth. Done by edtech platform Great Learning, the survey, however, found that in spite of the awareness around upskilling, 47% firms have not assigned budgets for upskilling. Hari Krishnan Nair, co-founder, Great Learning, said, \u201cWhile it\u2019s encouraging to see that firms are aware of the need for upskilling, the time to act is now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IIM Kozhikode and Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) have announced a drive called La Eve (The Woman) that will identify innovative women-founded start-ups and provide support. It\u2019ll be steered by IIMK\u2019s entrepreneurship development centre, Laboratory for Innovation, Venturing and Entrepreneurship, or IIMK LIVE. MRPL entered into an MoU with IIMK last year; since then it has provided seed funds to 11 start-ups incubated at IIMK LIVE. AI\/ML drive growth for corporate India A survey of 307 corporates has found upskilling in AI\/ML, digital marketing and design thinking is crucial to drive growth. Done by edtech platform Great Learning, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,195,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}