Telecom Innovation Hub Coming to Technopark Trivandrum

Technopark Trivandrum will soon become home to the country’s first telecom business incubator that will be jointly promoted by the National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, Technopark Trivandrum, and MobME Wireless.

The Telecom Innovation Hub will be launched by January 2012. It would focus primarily on student start-ups from campuses and would be modelled on technology incubators in Silicon Valley. It aims to incubate at least 1,000 product start-ups over a period of 10 years.

Infosys co-founder and co-chairman, Kris Gopalakrishnan, will be the Chief Mentor of the innovation hub.

The campus of the innovation hub will a have full 4G network and advanced telecom labs and will provide all services including legal, intellectual property, accounting, fully furnished office space, video conference rooms, computers, phone lines, Internet, server space, and virtual office services that are required for a student to start a company even while in college.

The innovation hub will create a vibrant ecosystem for start-ups to create breakthrough technologies for the global telecommunications industry in association with leading companies working in proposed telecom innovation zones.

These zones would bring home the latest technology platforms and products to start-ups in the incubator before they are released in the commercial markets

via keralait.org