Crescent Innovation & Incubation Council (CIIC) has been established as a Section-8 not for profit company and will act as a "One Stop Shop – Startup Incubator” for Start-ups. CIIC facilitates entrepreneurial & innovative ecosystem to all the stakeholders including the students, faculty, industry, investors and society at large. CIIC is under the ambit of BS Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute of Science & Technology which is deemed to be university under section 3 of UGC Act 1956. CIIC is presently focusing on the disruptive technologies in the domains of Industry 4.0, Life Sciences and Smart & Clean Mobility. CIIC has setup 55,000 sq. ft. state-of-art facility for startups. Under the CIIC umbrella we have following verticals. • Crescent Innovation & Incubation Council (CIIC) – Demonstrating Entrepreneurship • Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) – Seeding Entrepreneurship • APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Centre - Nurturing Entrepreneurship • IPR – Intellectual Property Rights Cell • Centre for Qualitative Research in Human Nature and Organizational Politics CIIC has strong back-up of Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC) predominantly run by student e-leaders since 1999 and also Dr.APJ Abdul Kalam Innovation Centre which nurtures early stage innovation and has funded 12 innovative projects. CIIC also has tie-up with Wadhwani Foundation for providing Social Entrepreneurship Course as a mandatory elective for all 800+ final year students and tie-up with University of Missouri, USA for Lifesciences Innovation & Entrepreneurship course