Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan inaugurated the country’s biggest startup incubator in Kochi on the weekend. Housed in a 1.8-lakh square-feet facility, it has incubation setups across a string of categories.
The Kerala Startup Mission (KSM) also boasts ultra modern facilities, like “Maker Village” dedicated to promotion of hardware startups, “Bionest” for promoting medical technologies, BRINC which is the country’s first international accelerator for hardware startups, BRIC which aids developing solutions for cancer diagnosis and care, and a Centre of Excellence set up by the industry majors.
After the completion of three more projects, Kerala will have startup and incubation space of 5 lakh sq.ft, which will be largest of these type in the world.