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Electronics hardware cluster unveiled in Karnataka city
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SME Times News Bureau | 18 Jul, 2018
A brownfield Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) cluster
was unveiled on Tuesday in this north Karnataka's industrial city,
ostensibly, to decongest a choked Bengaluru, about 400 km away.
Located
at Sandbox start-up facility of Deshpande Foundation, the cluster will
be developed as the next electronics hotspot in the southern state.
Set
up by technocrat Gururaj Deshpande and his wife Jaishree as a
non-governmental organisation (NGO) in 1996, the Foundation helps to
accelerate creation of sustainable and scalable enterprises for
socio-economic impact.
"The cluster aligns with our government's
vision to promote innovation and entrepreneurship in the state's
northern region, which is endowed with rich human capital and abundant
natural resources," said state IT-BT Minister K.J. George on the
occasion.
A senior cabinet member in the Janata Dal-Secular
(JD-S)-Congress coalition government, George also holds portfolios of
Science and Technology and Major and Medium Industries. He was the
Bengaluru Development Minister in the previous Congress government.
The
minister also unveiled a Very Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) incubation
centre at the privately-run KLE Technological University in the city.
"The
incubation centre will promote entrepreneurship and create skilled
manpower to make the state a global choice for innovation and
technology," reiterated George.
Spread over 6,000 square feet,
the cluster has a lab with testing tools and equipment to enable
start-ups to move from idea to prototyping, reducing iterations in the
product development lifecycle.
North Karnataka and
Hubballi-Dharwad are emerging as one of the growing technology hubs in
the country, as the region has resources to make printed circuit boards,
the building blocks of all electronics products.
In the absence
of such a cluster, local manufacturers and integrators have been going
to Bengaluru or Pune in neighbouring Maharashtra for their PCB needs,
leading to time and cost overruns.
"The ESDM cluster will also
support start-ups and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) from
incubation centres to expand their capacity," added the minister.
The
ESDM cluster has infrastructure designed to support start-ups in
automotive, instrumentation, consumer durables, medical and telecom.
As
a technology business incubator, Sandbox provides mentorship,
networking opportunities, resources and access to funding to mission
driven entrepreneurs.
"The entrepreneurs test, pilot and prove
their ideas/models in Sandbox. Till date, about 30 enterprises in
agri-tech, IoT, 3D printing software services were supported to create
jobs for about 500 youth and generate Rs 100 crore revenue since 2015,"
said Deshpande.
The state government will provide Rs 4 crore to
the ESDM and VLSI incubation centres over the next three years to make
them sustainable.
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