An innovative zone for skills and ideas
An innovative zone for skills and ideas
KOCHI: The innovative zone and training centre at the first Startup Village which is to be opened from mid April, will provide a p..

KOCHI: The innovative zone and training centre at the first Startup Village which is to be opened from mid April, will provide a platform to students to exploit their ideas and skills in the telecom sector.With `100 crore, the Startup Village has chalked out a roadmap to incubate and develop 1000 student startups over the next 10 years.A three-member team lead by Startup Village CEO Sijo George will moderate the students programme.“We’re employing peerlearning and are organising sessions.However, it’s more of self-learning,” said Sijo.The team will also encourage students take up MIT and Stanford online classes and get certificates.An outreach campaign to connect with vibrant students has been planned by signing up with all the engineering colleges in the state.Around 50 students can be accommodated at a time and it does not have a time schedule.A laboratory will be set up where students can develop technology and start applications in cutting-edge technology.Multiple handsets will be provided and machines will be purchased with the fund from the Department of Science and Technology, he said.Sony Joy, CEO of MobMe, the private partner of the Startup said, “We are planning to organise programmes in all the engineering colleges in the state to create awareness on incubators and ecosystem.” “We have established ourselves after starting as a startup when incubators were just coming up.When we were in the third year at College of Engineering, we approached Technopark and were the first group to get the incubator facility.Unlike the past, parents are not averse to entrepreneurship,” he said.When a group of students want to develop their idea into a product and market it, Startup offers them all the support, he added.While there are more than 6000 startup in US and China, India has only about 60, he said.

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