KOCHI: The state will get South Asia’s largest product development centres for technology startups, as KSUM’s Digital Hub is ready for inauguration on Saturday by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Occupying 2 lakh sq ft of builtup space at Kalamassery, the hub has the capacity to support 200 startups, besides the 165 startups hosted in the adjoining Integrated Startup Complex.
Housing a design incubator, healthcare incubator, Center of Excellence (CoE) for Mouser Electronics, co-working spaces, design studios, investors hive and an innovation centre, the Digital Hub is conceived to emerge as one of South Asia’s largest product development centres for technology startups, authorities said on Thursday.
As a destination for designing and prototyping, the hub will be open for international organisations and institutions to build world-class products, KSUM CEO John M Thomas said in a news conference here. The CoE aims to groom shelter-related ideas and innovations and will function as a one-stop centre for all product design and development activities for software and hardware components.
The Digital Hub is the latest addition to KSUM’s Technology Innovation Zone (TIZ) as a global innovation hub for technology sectors.
TIZ is being established at Kinfra Hitech Park in Kalamassery, envisioning a onestop destination for technology innovation that encapsulates everything from consolidation of idea, to its incubation, acceleration and mentor support to set up an enterprise and a squadron of angel investors ready to invest in a bankable idea.
