In order to promote value-based learning and research, the University plans to establish
a number of Centres of Excellence, in addition to its already established centres
and departments, in different schools.
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School of Management |
At present, the School of Management has one Department – Department of Business
Studies and established following three new Centres of Excellence:
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i. Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovations |
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Establishment of entrepreneurial ventures is the need of the hour for India to progress
economically and socially. Entrepreneurs exploit existing opportunity by coming
out with innovating products and services. They generate employment for people leading
to lowering of burden in the society. However, entrepreneurship in any society needs
to be actively nurtured by public institutions.
The Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovations at GBUSM takes all measures to nurture
entrepreneurial spirit among its graduates as well as common public. The Centre
carries out cutting edge research in the area of entrepreneurship. It also undertakes
consulting assignments by way of supporting start-ups. For this the Centre looks
forward to establishing an Incubation Centre. Short-term training programmes for
the entrepreneurs will also be organized in the near future.
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ii. Centre for Management of Financial Services |
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Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance
industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management
of money. Among these organizations are banks, credit card companies, insurance
companies, consumer finance companies, stock brokerages, investment funds and some
government sponsored enterprises.
The financial services industry constitutes the largest group of companies in the
world in terms of earnings and equity market cap. With sustained deregulatory measures,
exposure to international financial markets and the introduction of new products
and services, the Indian financial sector is charting an impressive growth path.
This Centre helps support the huge potential in the Indian financial services segment.
Activities planned under this Centre include organization of Seminars/Workshops,
Conferences, Short term PG courses, Short term Executive programs, Research Projects,
Consultancy Projects etc.
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iii. Centre for Executive Education |
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Today, every organization, public or private, is willing to get its manpower trained
in latest management tools and techniques. Lately, investment on training has come
to be considered as a long-term investment which has very high returns, tangible
as well as intangibles.
GBUSM being located in the NCR has ready access to various corporate sectors. All
these organizations need in-service training programmes for their employees working
at various levels of management. The Centre for Executive Education will run short
term and long-term courses for the working executives.
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School of Information & Communication Technology |
The School of ICT has established following three centres:
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i. Centre for Intelligent Systems |
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The objective of this centre is to offer the highest quality of research facilities
in the field of Artificial intelligence. It will include the development of systems
based on latest AI concepts like neural networks, robot, Black board architectures
and many more. Machine Intelligence is found in many modern-day technologies and
can be defined as encompassing all of the developments in both symbolic artificial
intelligence and artificial neural networks. It aims to implement the mapping between
human intelligence and its incorporation into machines, which effectively means
the mapping from human perceptions to actions.
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ii. Centre for Information Security |
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In the present era Internet in which the information can be accessed easily, the
Centre of Information Security aims at conducting research providing technical advice
and consultancy service in the area of information security to the industry and
needy organizations. The centre will also conduct short term courses to create awareness
about secured communication services such as telecommunications, banking and finance,
and electronic commerce and on various information security issues among the industries
and people who are working in the environment of cyber world.
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iii. Centre for Open Resources and e-learning |
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The centre will focus on the research in the area of open resources and e-learning.
The research will include different approaches to the design, development, and distribution
of free software, open education resources using tools like Wikipedia, Wiki-educator
etc and web 2.0 tools.
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