India Innovation Growth Programme 2011 Roadshow on 5 January

A roadshow of the India Innovation Growth Programme 2011 will be held in Thiruvananthapuram tomorrow to create awareness about the programme. The India Innovation Growth Programme is a two-year, nation-wide project, created to enhance the growth and development of India's entrepreneurial economy.

The Programme is equally funded by Department of Science and Technology (Government of India) and Lockheed Martin Corporation, and was developed with the assistance of the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum, IC2 Institute at the University of Texas, and FICCI. The overall goal is to accelerate the launch of Indian early-stage technologies into the global marketplace.

The Programme is open to all Indian researchers, inventors, entrepreneurs and companies with early stage technologies that possess promising commercial potential. It is open to technologies from a wide range of fields including IT & BT. The programme offers participants a number of training and educational opportunities designed to enhance their commercial potential. Applicants who are selected to participant in the program can look forward to training in technology commercialisation strategies and entrepreneurship and analysis of commercial potential of their technology. So far 1,112 applications have been screened.

To know more about how you or your company can participate in the India Innovation Growth Programme 2011, attend the roadshow tomorrow at Residency Towers.