About DSCEI

Business incubators facilitate young startups to innovate and grow. They provide education, professional services, mentorship, workspaces, and access to investors to aspiring entrepreneurs. These resources support ideas to take shape and survive the early stages of business through a safe space for experiment and risk navigation. They are now a vital part of the higher education landscape to provide forums for idea exchange on campus and facilitate connections that speed innovative ideas from concept to reality.

The Deccan Education Society is an academic ecosystem with a network of 57 academic institutions in 07 locations, comprising of a community built over one and a half century, rich with networks, resources, and physical environments essential to fostering entrepreneurial exploration and hands-on entrepreneurial skills. Accordingly, DES’s Dr.P.C.Shejwalkar Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (DSCEI) has been conceived as a nursery enabling stimulus to budding entrepreneurs to shape their thought...


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Honouring the GURU

  • Dr. P. C. Shejwalkar laid the seeds of management education in the state of Maharashtra in the 1970’s.
  • It was due to his untiring efforts that led to the University of Pune to launch a full time, post-graduate course in management and thereafter founded the prestigious Institute of Management Development and Research (IMDR®).
  • He was treading an unknown territory when he made IMDR an autonomous institute, inspiring several others to follow suit.
  • Pune management education landscape grew and flourished with vision and guidance for over five decades.
  • He stands tall among thought leaders for his innovation, enterprise and relentless pursuit of excellence, all that is the hallmark of the proposed business incubator aspiring to support ideas into thriving businesses with a conducive ecosystem.