IIT Kanpur lays foundation stone of research and technology park

Professor Abhay Karandikar, Director, IITK, Professor S Ganesh, Deputy Director, IITK, Professor Avinash Agarwal, Professor In-charge IITK and others, presided the event.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur on Tuesday, October 20, 2020,  laid the foundation stone of its research and technology park that functions under the brand name of 'Technoparkiitk.' An offiacial of IIT-K told that Professor Abhay Karandikar, Director, IITK, Professor S Ganesh, Deputy Director, IITK, Professor Avinash Agarwal, Professor In-charge IITK and others, presided the event. IIT Kanpur started its research and technology park in March 2019 with a vision of co-developing indigenous cutting-edge technologies in partnership with industry and further bolstering a robust research and technology development ecosystem in the country. The main idea behind this ambitious project is to push the technology up in the value chain and take the TRL levels up from 3 to 9.

The upcoming Phase I infrastructure is a six-storied green building measuring 2.5 lakh sq. ft., designed carefully to accommodate big, medium and small companies. The first two floors will be designed for heavy engineering industries, third and fourth floors will accommodate IT industry and fifth and six floors will house chemical and bioengineering industries. According to the official plan, the building will have all state-of-the-art facilities such as Ready-built or Built-to-suit offices/labs, units of 500-10,000 sq. ft. each, Conferencing Facilities, Meeting Rooms, Large Common Areas, Cafeteria/ATMs/Creche and Recreational Facilities. Technopark at IIT-K is a Section 8 not-for-profit company primarily intended towards accelerating and facilitating collaborations between IIT Kanpur, industry and government. Currently, it is home to seven companies that have set up their R&D offices within Technopark-iitk and parallelly is in discussions with several other industries. 

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