Startup & Entrepreneurship Pavilion
Walk in at fourteen with a problem you have noticed, and walk out of the third room as a business that is ready for investment.
Today at the Pavilion
All three rooms are open and staffed for all ten days. Only the scheduled programme changes from day to day.
The pavilion opens on 17 December with Discover days — guided tours for school and college groups.
Until then, you can book a class visit, register for the next Design Thinking workshop, or apply for the SGB Accelerator. Details below.
The Numbers So Far
Updated by the pavilion team from the enquiry desk in each room. Figures reset until doors open on 17 December.
Measuring What Matters: Enterprise Readiness
"Ideas exist. Pathways do not. Readiness, not money, is the bottleneck."
Why We Are Doing This: A Continuous Pipeline
Why Koshi Province needs a place where an idea can be taken seriously. The three rooms are the Chamber's existing work on entrepreneurship put in order so that each part feeds the next.
Ideas exist. Pathways do not.
Koshi has no shortage of young people with ideas or of families running small businesses. What is missing is somewhere to take an idea next. Without a pathway, an idea stays a conversation.
The first gap is readiness, not money.
Finance exists — bank credit, State Startup Enterprise Loans, local angel investors. Most enterprises cannot reach it because the books, the plan and compliance are not in order. Readiness is the bottleneck.
Industry & academia sit side by side and never meet.
Colleges teach business; industries need problems solved. Chamber of Industries Morang is the one institution that can put a student in front of a real industrial problem, and a mentor in front of a student.
One-off events do not compound.
A workshop that ends on the last day leaves nothing behind. BIC is built so that every activity hands something to the next one — and so that each year starts further ahead than the last.
One Bamboo Frame. Three Continuous Zones.
Designed as an open bamboo pavilion on a raised timber deck, visitors walk in one continuous path without doubling back or hitting a dead end.
THINK: The Makerspace
Audience: Grades 7–10 & Teachers
BUILD: The Design Studio
Audience: College Students & Innovators
GROW & INVEST: The Growth Room
Audience: Small & Growing Businesses (SGBs)
THINK: The Makerspace — CURIOSITY
Curiosity. Capability. Capital.
Each room hands something to the next. A student who makes a prototype in Room 1 arrives in Room 2 already knowing how to ask good questions. A team that validates an idea in Room 2 arrives in Room 3 with real metrics an investor or bank can review.
The Makerspace
Audience: School students, grades 7–10 & their teachers
"Where problem-solving starts at fourteen"
The Design Studio
Audience: College & university students, young adults & hackers
"Empathy to Enterprise — design thinking, end to end"
The Growth Room
Audience: Small and Growing Businesses (SGBs) trading 1+ years
"Taking a working business all the way to investment-ready"
The Makerspace (THINK)
For School students, grades 7–10 & their teachers
What We Do All Year (Continuous Pipeline)
- Hands-on making: students build, test, and rebuild real mechanical & electronic objects
- Empathy, problem definition and prototyping taught through play (no pitch decks or business plans)
- Teachers receive toolkits and the BIC maker handbook so sessions continue back in school
What You Can Experience At The Pavilion (17–26 Dec)
- Live Maker Bench — students can sit and build a working gadget in 30 minutes
- Student Project Wall: authentic real-world problems children across Koshi chose to tackle
- Guided tours for school cohorts hosted by young student makers & inventors
- Teacher consultation desk: book a customized hands-on session for your school
The Work So Far: 2021 to 2026
Five years of continuous incubation delivery by Chamber of Industries Morang. The three-room pavilion is the first time all of it is presented as one connected public pathway.
Mentorship framework & first incubation cohort
Cohort 1 — an 18-month incubation pilot delivered with Antarprerana Pvt Ltd.
Written curriculum & manager guidebook
Cohort 2 — redesigned to 12 months, sector-agnostic with 20–25 participants.
Hackathon at Birat Expo & first school maker session
Startup Hackathon 'Innovate for Koshi' with King's College & school mindset at Lilliput School.
BIC formalised, design studio & SGB accelerator
Empathy to Enterprise with Mahendra Morang College & BIC SGB Accelerator 2026.
Six Dedicated Focuses Across Ten Days
All three rooms remain open and staffed every single day. Only the core thematic programme and primary focus rotate to serve the full breadth of the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Discover Days
Guided tours for school and college groups across all three rooms.
Key Activities & Highlights Scheduled
The 5-Step Visitor Journey
Every visitor leaves with something tangible. The single L-shaped bamboo path guides you naturally from a spark of curiosity all the way to an investment conversation.
Information Desk
Get the pavilion map & answer one question: Which room is yours?
Room 1 · Makerspace
Try the maker bench & build a prototype in thirty minutes; view the student project wall
Room 2 · Design Studio
Watch sprint teams work live; let students interview you about a bottleneck you face
Room 3 · Growth Room
Meet trading local businesses; sit a free 20-minute Business Health Check-up
Enquiry Desk
Register as a school, student, enterprise founder, mentor, or angel investor
Innovation Challenge Problem Statements
Real challenge gaps identified by Chamber of Industries Morang. Student teams and hackers will build solutions in Room 2 (The Design Studio) and pitch live on Compete Days (21–22 December).
Agro-Value Addition & Export Linkage
Transforming raw agricultural produce in Koshi Province into high-value packaged goods for regional and global markets.
Tourism & Eco-Hospitality Innovation
Creating digital, sustainable, and cultural trails that retain international and domestic travelers across Eastern Nepal.
Civic & Essential Services Delivery
Using mobile and web tech to streamline municipal licenses, healthcare access, and public utility grievance resolutions.
Smart Urban & Industrial Infrastructure
Solutions for waste management, clean energy adoption, smart parking, and logistics for industrial belts like Biratnagar-Itahari.
Youth in Enterprise & Modern Farming
Demystifying tech-driven modern farming, micro-manufacturing, and creative crafts for young generations returning to Koshi.
Have a different local problem you are solving?
Bring your idea or working prototype directly to Room 2. The mentors from King's College Innovation Kitchen and Biratnagar Incubation Center will help refine your business model.
How to Take Part
Everything below is free of cost. Come to the room that is yours, any day of the Expo.
Book a class visit, or a session at your school
Bring grades 7–10 on a guided tour of Room 1 during the Discover days, or ask us to run a maker session at your own school in the new year.
Join the next Design Thinking workshop
No business idea needed, and no fee. Leave your name at Room 2 and we will tell you when the next workshop opens in your college.
Apply for the next SGB Accelerator
For registered businesses of Koshi Province trading for a year or more. Start with a free Business Health Check-up in Room 3 — any day of the Expo.
Mentor, sponsor a booth, or back a founder
CIM members can give a few hours a month as a mentor, sponsor a stall for a young business, or meet investment-ready businesses on Invest day.
The Pavilion Does Not End on 26 December
Every enquiry taken at the three desks is counted and followed up: schools are offered a session date, students are told when the next workshop opens in their college, and businesses are booked for a Business Health Check-up. Visitor numbers, enquiries and enrolments are compiled into one report and shared with CIM members and partners.
Biratnagar Incubation Center (BIC)
Entrepreneurship Academy & Innovation Unit,
Chamber of Industries Morang
Chamber of Industries, Morang
Website:
www.cim.org.npAddress:
Shahid Marga, Tinpaini, Biratnagar-2
