Monthly Archives: November 2022

CHENNAI 7th November 2022: The IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP) has incubated and supported around 10 start-ups in the Assistive Technology (AT) space and intends to increase this number by ten-fold in the future.

Chennai, October 28th, 2022: In an endeavor to set the vision for Industry-Academia led technology transformation aimed at taking India towards Net-Zero by 2047, IIT Madras Research Park along with India Energy Storage Alliance (IESA) is organising ENVISION – India’s First Energy Festival  at IITMRP between 3rd-5th November, 2022. 

Chennai, October 29th, 2022: IITM Incubation Cell (IITMIC), India's leading Deep-tech Start-up hub, announced its partnership with SSN Incubation Foundation (SSN iFound), Chennai – the incubation & innovation wing supported by SSN College of Engineering. Through the partnership, IITMIC aims to support SSN iFound in developing an ecosystem that nurtures a culture of building things and provides incubation support to promising entrepreneurial ventures.

CHENNAI 1st November 2022: Startups in the AT space serve a very niche but very fragmented market. The conventional approach to selling to the masses does not exist in this vertical, mainly because the consumers are different, there are special needs for varied disabilities, and the challenges therefore associated with all stages of product development i.e., from prototyping to selling a finished product in the market is not an easy wave to tide.

CHENNAI 26th October 2022: Assistive Technology (AT) enables people with disabilities to live a healthy, productive, independent, and dignified lives, and to participate in education, the labour market and in civic life. Assistive technology reduces the need for formal health and support services, long-term care, and the work of caregivers. Without assistive technology, people are often excluded, isolated, and locked into poverty, thereby increasing the impact of disease and disability on a person, their family, and society.

Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala throws light on the origin of IITM Research Park, the journey of its spectacular success to make the “impossible, possible”, commercializing Indian R&D to global markets, incubating some of India’s most impactful deep-tech startups and to today becoming "The Incubator of Dreams" to countless more that tread the same path. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R1ROBC2aKWHwD1rAuuXDLr24l5CNJ2kL