Chennai, February15, 2023: IIT-Madras Research Park has partnered with IT firm HTC Global Services and industry body NASSCOM to set up a rural BPO (business process outsourcing) centre in Reddiarpatti in Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu.

Chennai, January27, 2023: IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP), India’s first university-based research park, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with First Solar, Inc.

Milk is the largest crop on this planet. Despite the massive numbers, there is a strong need for technology intervention, especially in the emerging markets where the yield per animal is low, traceability is inadequate, and quality is not up to the mark.

Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, President – IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP), IITM Incubation Cell & RTBI (IITM’s Rural Technology and Business Incubator) in a comprehensive and in-depth exchange, spoke to Pronojit Saha, Deep Tech Musings on “Building India’s foremost deep-tech startup hub – IITM Incubation Cell”. 

Chennai, December 13, 2022: IIT Madras Research Park (IITMRP), India’s first University-based Research Park and IIT Madras Incubation Cell, India's leading Deep-tech Start-up hub, conducted a day-long event on Vision & AI Technology – Towards Industry 4.0.

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.