Srinagar, July 15 -- The Greenovator Incubation Foundation, or GIF, based at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Srinagar, has entered into a one-year agreement with Startup Kashmir Consultancy Pvt. Ltd., a local firm supporting early-stage businesses.

The memorandum of understanding, signed this week, will allow the two organizations to jointly run entrepreneurship workshops, campus-based startup bootcamps, and industry-facing innovation events aimed at college students and first-time entrepreneurs.

Executives involved in the partnership say the goal is to shift the region's startup conversation from inspiration to implementation.

"Young people here are ready," said Prof. M.F. Wani, Director of GIF and Head of Mechanical Engine...