India’s first PPP telecom biz incubator to open tomorrow

Saturday, April 14, 2012: The country’s first telecom incubator based on the public-private-partnership (PPP) mode will be inaugurated here tomorrow by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan to support new product initiatives so that they can be turned into successful businesses.
Set in KINFRA Park at Kalamassery, Startup Village will focus on student initiatives from college campuses and would be modelled on technology incubators in the Silicon Valley.
It aims to incubate 1,000 product startups over 10 years and launch the search for a billion dollar company from a college campus by the turn of this decade.
The National Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, Technopark and MobME Wireless have joined hands to set up the country’s first telecom business incubator called Startup Village - Indian Telecom Innovation Hub, KINFRA sources said.
It will create a vibrant ecosystem for startups to create breakthrough technologies for the global telecom industry, they said.
It will function in association with leading companies in the telecom sector, through Telecom Innovation Zones, that bring the latest technology platforms and products to startups in the incubator before being released commercially.