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Centre of Excellence for Corporate

Governance & Social Responsibility

To serve as a resource centre in the areas of good governance, social responsibility and corporate
citizenship for sustainable development of corporations both in the public and private sector,

To organize national and international conferences, round tables, seminars, guest lecturers and other
similar events on the above subjects,

To document and publish best practices of corporate governance and social responsibility for
dissemination and awareness creation,

To provide a forum for consulting, capacity building and research, and build association with
government agencies, industry bodies and academic institutions working in these areas,

To analyze critical issues like adequacy of legal and regulatory framework of corporate governance,
effectiveness of Board of Directors, and Board sub committees, strategic management issues, role of
Independent Directors, protection of shareholder interests and adequacy of financial reporting and
disclosures,

To study governance challenges in state-owned enterprises and recommend reform initiatives for
empowerment of these enterprises,

To undertake training, orientation and evaluation of CEOs, Directors, Independent Directors and other
senior executives and managers of the corporations.

IMI Incubation E-CELL

Foundation IMI has a very active Entrepreneurship-Cell

(E-Cell). It is a platform for the students to
The Institute started this Centre to promote a culture develop as future entrepreneurs. E- Cell
of innovation. This Centre provides a platform for conducts various events such as boot camp,
young minds to become creative and receptive to business plan, etc. It has tied up with NEN for
new ideas. It also opens up avenues for academics, course work for students. It also conducts
scholars, industry people to come together and work entrepreneurship awareness camps,
on new research projects and innovate.
entrepreneurship development programme in
collaboration with EDII and IED (under MSME,

Objectives Odisha). Many workshops / events have been
conducted by E-Cell in collaboration with
bodies like TiE Bhubaneswar Chapter, ICC
To promote innovation culture among
students Kolkata etc. It regularly invites entrepreneurs
for talks on its campus. IMI Bhubaneswar has
To provide a platform for idea generation and
discussions also set up an Incubation Center to support
new ideas and start-ups.
To organize round tables, conferences and
workshops

To develop innovative business models and

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