Venture Center is India’s leading inventive enterprise incubator, It is hosted by CSIR’s National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. Venture Center was incorporated as “Entrepreneurship Development Center” under Section 25 of the Companies Act, 1956 (now Section 8 under the Companies Act, 2013). The Venture Center is a technology business incubator approved by the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (now called, Technology Translation and Innovation Division) of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST-NSTEDB), Department of Biotechnology’s (DBT) Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) and the Defense Innovation Organization.  It has also served as the partner of the Atal Innovation Mission for nurturing deep tech entrepreneurship under the AIM PRIME program. It also operates programs with MEITY, DC,MSME and Startup India Mission.  VC has aided over 800+ science-based startups since its inception in January 2007. The Venture Center has won several National awards and one international award for technology commercialization and business incubation – the latest being the National Award for Best Incubator nurturing IP.   The Venture Center operates an active Regional Technology Transfer Office (RTTO) supported under the National Biopharma Mission. This RTTO actively engages with academia and industry to forge technology commercialization partnerships. The Venture Center has experience publishing two books focussed on technology translation and venturing  – AIM-PRIME PlayBook and CanDid. Both are available on Amazon. The Venture Center team shared copies of these with the UNIDO team. Venture Center has been working in the field of technology commercialization since 2007. The focus has been taking  science -based ideas from lab to market via various mechanisms including venturing, tech transfer to large companies and other routes to market.