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Startup Mangaluru

To back startups, govt to set up instrumentation incubators in 5 cities including Mangaluru
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Robotics, gaming, aerospace, 3-D printing among priority areas

The Information Technology department will soon set up ‘instrumentation incubators’ to encourage startups in the emerging areas of robotics, nano-technology, 3-D printing, system design and clean technology among others.
Bureaucracy gives wings to Nirmala's thrust for innovation incubation centre in DK
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MANGALURU: Has the bureaucracy changed? To a great extent if one goes through this firsthand account of a city-based chartered accountant who hosted one such group in this coastal city in the second week of January. They were on a daylong visit on a direction given by Union Minister of Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman, who is keen to set up incubation centre in Dakshina Kannada district to support innovative business ideas. Incidentally, Nirmala is a Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka.

Her team of five came to Mangaluru and were tasked with meeting chartered accountant Giridhar Kamath or entrepreneur Pradeep Pai. Arranging the local contacts for the team here was T V Mohandas Pai, chairman of Manipal Global Education. The whole visit was a closely guarded event and known to few lest it turn into a political or bureaucratic mela, says Giridhar. The team's mission was clear, a quick in and out visit with meetings through the day.

"The brief given to me was - need to meet people, exchange ideas, visit institutions. No need to book any rooms in hotels, will keep our bags in the car, food not particular...," Giridhar stated in a WhatsApp post. "And this is what I saw on the day of their visit. Five young smart men aged 22-30 from the ministry, start-up India and Invest India mission land in Mangaluru. We had breakfast in a small hotel; they didn't allow me to pay the bill, saying we get reimbursed."

He adds: The team had discussions with 18 people from institutions, trade, SSI, software and start-ups. They visited start-ups, had discussions with innovative student entrepreneurs at MIT Manipal incubation centre, director, former head of Udupi municipal council, Pejawar Swamiji and reached airport by 10 pm. All along, they paid the bill collectively or went Dutch. There were no flowers, no speeches, or any freebies sought or given. They meant business.

About his experience, Giridhar told TOI, "I have taken Babus for lunch. But have never seen this before. These men have changed my perception about government officials. I'm impressed." Story does not end there. For those who could not meet this team in person, mail ids and contacts were exchanged and the business went online. If the incubation centre does materialise, it will be due to Mohandas Pai who wants IT/ITeS to find firmer footing here, Giridhar adds.
Hopefully Ministry of Commerce & Industry will show interest in setting up 'School of Commerce' in Mangaluru along with Incubation Centre. For 'School of Logisitics' Mangalore MP may have to contact Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and Shipping. (Ministry may show more interest in Nagpur as they want to make it Logistics Hub for India but second school may come to Mangalore if Mangalore MP shows enough interest. Nagpuar specializing in Inland Logistics and Mangaluru specializing in Maritime Logistics). Both schools will help in incubation of companies in these sectors.

Startups Club to expand in India, abroad including Mangaluru
MLA Lobo woos Overseas Investors on potentials of Mangaluru to set up IT/BT industries

Bearys Chamber of Commerce inaugurated, leaders hail community
M'luru: Beary Chambers of Commerce holds Entrepreneurship seminar

Third annual convention of International Bunts Welfare Trust on February 7 - Whether there is a possibility of Bunts Chamber of Commerce & Industry encouraging entrepreneurship & startups in the community by building a Smart IT City in Mangalore? I see neither Hindu Chamber of Commerce & Industry nor Dalit Chamber of Commerce & Industry active in Mangalore.

NIT-K students start campus bicycle sharing initiative
Students’ start-up launches food pre-ordering app WayFoo.com

Jharkhand and Tamil Nadu govts. show interest in city’s fish vending machine

Hellodoc launched to provide healthcare in remote villages (This news is from Manipal)

Making engineers industry-ready through NextGen 3D laboratory
St Agnes college gets 'College Excellence' status from UGC

Government plans first startup district with incubators
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NEW DELHI: India will soon have its first startup district with incubation centres and about 20 tinkering labs for schools aimed at encouraging the creation of innovative solutions in agriculture, health and education.

Commerce & industry minister Nirmala Sitharaman, who is a Rajya Sabha MP from Karnataka, is keen for the entire cluster to be developed in Mangalore.

The government will fund the effort and ensure that roads, electricity and digital networks are provided for the one of the largest upcoming incubation facilities in the country.

While the cost has not been assessed, a person familiar with the development said, "Government will put all its weight behind it in terms of making resources available. The idea is also to expand the startup drive in cities other than Bengaluru and Hyderabad."

The incubation centres will provide specialised services for sectors including agriculture, medicine and pharma, along with information technology.
Indian government plans first startup district with incubators
ಮಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ಮೊದಲ ಸ್ಟಾರ್ಟ್ಅಪ್ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆಯ ಗರಿ?
New feather in cap- Mangaluru to become first start-up district in India soon
Mangaluru first 'Startup District'?

Sectors like agriculture, medicine and pharma, along with information technology, education means we can work on Agricultural or Pharma Robotics or 3D-printing, Marine Robotics can be done under information technology itself. Agriculture means fisheries also. Marine Pharmacognosy under Pharma. Nano-technology has applications in agriculture, medicine and pharma. I think clean technology, offshore technolgy etc are also allowed as there is no bar on sectors as such.

If 'Subsea Data Centre' comes up along with 'Startup District' then start ups who need these services will have cheap facility nearby. If companies like Microsoft, Google, who are developing 'Subsea Data Centers', show interest in investing in the startups incubated here this can happen.

Dakshina Kannada to have country's first startup district
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MANGALURU: Dakshina Kannada will have India's first startup district. As per the result of a tem sent by minister for commerce and industry Nirmala Sitharaman to the district in January, the decision has received approval from department of industrial policy and promotion of the commerce ministry and the NITI Ayog. With the minister dropping sufficient hints to this effect in the ongoing budget session, a formal official announcement to this effect is awaited shortly.

Sources privy to this development told TOI that the district will get 20 Tinkering Laboratories in schools with state-of-the-art hardware such as 3D printers and allied software. To be named Atal Tinkering Laboratories, the programme is being taken up under Atal Innovation Mission and will also see these labs and incubation centres come up in five colleges and two institutions will vie for centre of excellence in a grand challenge that the ministry will announce soon.

Ashok Jhunjunwala, professor, department of electrical engineering from IIT, Chennai who set up the IIT Madras Research Park will handhold the exercise. This will be a three-tiered approach to fostering culture of innovation. Hence, there are schools, colleges and professional/technical institutions lined up for this project in a bottom up pyramid structure approach with focus on agriculture, education, health, infrastructure, manufacturing and internet of things.

The ministry sources maintained that the team that Nirmala had sent to the city will be visiting Mangaluru once more either this month end or early next month and hold additional discussions with stakeholders to firm up the plan and tie up the loose ends. "This meeting could give a push to certain lacunaes in terms of physical infrastructure that the district faces either in terms of assured power supply and better and enhanced road connectivity," sources stated.

Nirmala Sitharaman, a Rajya Sabha member from Karnataka has embarked on this move to give thrust for entrepreneurship in the coastal district and its immediate hinterland through the incubation centres. It may be added here that T V Mohandas Pai, Chairman, Manipal Global Education facilitated local contacts for the team that visited the city earlier to make a preliminary assessment for the startup project, which TOI reported in these columns on January 28.
So manufacturing and IoT are also included.

Why not have 'Atal Institute of Innovation' or 'Indian Institute of Innovation' or 'National Institute of Innovation' also as a part of 'Atal Innovation Mission' established in Mangaluru? What this institute can do are
  • Keep track of innovations happening in innovation field itself. That is, innovations in incubation centers, innovative data science etc
  • Keep track of innovation happening in various science & technology sectors
  • Keep track of innovations happening in economic, physical, social, institutional, legal, educational, manufacturing etc sectors around the world
  • Keep track of innovative ways in which 'Resident Welfare Associations' (Community-Based Organisations) work
  • Conduct research to discover innovative processes (best practices etc)
  • Educational programmes on innovations, innovation management, incubation center management etc
  • More details in cross quote below
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My wish is a city should not just be a production place (where innovative technology invented somewhere else) but knowledge & innovation place also. So at least in one or two sectors/domains a city should have everything unlike silicon valley model of innovation in that city and production somewhere else. Let me also explain the 'innovation' in smart city context as per my understanding so to make it clear what I am talking about here. A smart city should be innovative not only in its governance & policies but also it should continuously innovate its infrastructures like economical infrastructure so to be in competition with other cities who have built their economical infrastructure in the same domain. A smart city should also have a 'Smart Innovation Plan' (or the country should have a general knowledgebase of innovations happening around the world. Each domain/section/field may have its own innovation center dedicated to study innovations around the world in that particular domain/section/field. For example, we already have many 'Educational Innovations Centers' but we need sophisticated 'Educational Informatics Centers' for more systematized studies and similarly 'Institutional Innovations Centers' & 'Institutional Informatics Centers'. I don't know how much 'Data Analysis' each city is going to do on global data. I don't know whether India is going to have "Urban Informatics Centers' or combined 'Urban-Rural Informatics Systems' addressing various needs like innovation, etc. No idea whether existing SMARTNET can be adapted for this.)(Many of smart cities in their vision statement have mentioned that they want to be innovative. But how they achieve that is not specified anywhere by them). A smart city should know what innovations are happening around the world in social, institutional & governance, economical, legal, physical infrastructures and adapt to it quickly to be a globally competitive city. For example a manufacturing city should be upto date with innovative production techniques to be economically viable though innovative techniques & products are discovered somewhere else. That is what smart city definition of 'innovation'. But what I am aiming is production, innovation in production process, innovation in products and every other kind of innovation is done within same city in its domain. What I wish is most of cities should be knowledge centre for products they manufacture. There may be a few cities which may not become knowledge center for many reasons for example in a high temperature region many of whitecolor professionals may not like to stay or there could be water shortage unable to support huge population for other things except for production. In other words what I am saying is as far as possible a city should be fulfledged knowledge city in its domains/sectors of strength. In addition, a city should also have capacity to come out with its own innovative methods in social, institutional and other infrastructures apart from monitoring and adapting innovations happening across the world.
Anyway 'Subsea Data Centre' can be used for keeping all data.

Apart from this What I wish is whole 'Boat Rapid Transit System' developed in Mangaluru itself. Various components like Passenger Information System, Anti Collision System etc can be developed in Mangaluru itself. We have to develop gadgets needed for easy manoeuvrability of boats near pick up points also. I am not only talking about boat jet bridges (like aerobridge) to connect boats to boat terminals but electronic accessories needed to enable faster piloting and pick up operations. This way we can have 'Made in Mangaluru' product instead of purchasing costlier ones. But Boat services can be introduced without these things initially with slower speeds.

MRPLs Kaushal Vikas Kendra inaugurated
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MRPL KVK launch testifies to the same, he said adding that MRPL has got the approval to launch a start-up fund of Rs 10 crores which will be used to support the new ventures/startups of the youth.
Mumbai: Billawa Chamber of Commerce & Industry to launch Mangaluru chapter on Feb 19
Mangaluru: Billawa Chamber of Commerce & Industry opens City Chapter

NRI entrepreneur Ashwath Hegde is helping shoppers go green

Hope in future Mangaloreans will fund indigenous research in Mangaluru also.

What are the possibility of IT-Park, Blueberry Hills being developed as a part of 'Startup District' to encourage IT startups?

Women Entrepreneur Park in Mangaluru

Summa: 30 acres Women Entrepreneur Park will come up in location identified for IT SEZ (81.19), Pajir-Kairangala.

Any idea whether an alternative location will be found for IT SEZ?

Mangaluru student develops iron box that can heat up in just a second
A ‘Make in India’ initiative! Try this unique gas saving oven
This NIT-K researcher gives rural houses pedal power

So integrated solar, biogas, manual electrical power may ensure better electrical supply to rural homes and even at places where there are incessant power cuts.

Team AlphaGears from the MITE won the Platinum prize at KPIT Sparkle 2017 event
10 Incubation Centres are getting ready at MITE

NMAMIT, NIT-K chosen as India's first startup district
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He added that innovation centre with incubators will be launched in Nitte Campus in Karkala in two months. The work for the facility is in near completion. New incubation facility will provide students the necessary platform for realizing their ideas like a workspace, comprehensive inventory and ample guidance. ``The government wants to encourage startups to provide innovative solutions for challenges unique to India, especially in education, health, manufacturing, agriculture and infrastructure, and not just be skewed towards developing apps,'' he added.

Apart from it there will be tinkering labs for schools aimed at encouraging the creation of innovative solutions in agriculture, health and education.
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In addition, NMAMIT already has been successfully running New Age Incubation Centre. Karnataka Biotechnology & Information Technology Services (KBITS), an autonomous organization established under the department of information technology & biotechnology, Karnataka government, had selected NMAM Institute of Technology, Nitte as one of the nine engineering colleges for 'Karnataka New Age Incubation Network'.
Dakishna Kannada takes next step to become startup capital of India

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I opine AJ Shetty Institues which are so close to core city, STPI & proposed IT Park are suited to have a Inter-disciplinary group of medicine & engineering with "Healthcare Innovation/Startup Center" nearby their campus.
I think if AJIET was part of an autonomous university then they could have introduced specialized subjects like biomedical engineering, health informatics, bioinformatics (computational biology), computational medicine, imaging science, etc and helped startups in these domain. Though I don't know how it is possible but I wish AJIET can find a way to colloborate with other universities (including foreign) who already have these subjects in their academic curriculum to introduce these courses. I think this is the best way to exploit the advantage of having medical and engineering college in single campus.

Dept shows the way to dry fish
Drone tech developed for cloud seeding

Research centre launched in Bantakal (Udupi)
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A Centre of Excellence for Research in Artificial Intelligence (& machine learning) was inaugurated at the Sri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management (SMVITM) at Bantakal in Udupi district on Wednesday.

The centre is being established in association with Cere Labs Pvt. Ltd., Mumbai.
NITK students 'change' the way they 'pay'
3D printer to drones, Vion Martis of SJEC is Mangaluru's young innovator
Sahyadri Team Challengers positioned sixth at SAE International Aero Design West held at Fort Worth Texas, USA

Mangalore University Budget
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It reserved Rs. 5 crore for the advanced research centre coming up at Belapu in Udupi district.
Varsity to take over the Centre for Application of Radioisotopes and Radiation Technology (CARRT)

Eyes on Mars, students to fly to US (Manipal)

Mangaluru likely to be the first startup district in the country
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Following a discussion with the ministry, the district administration examined two places in Adyar and at Surathkal near to the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK). Speaking to Express, Dr Jagadeesha (Deputy commissioner) said, “It is true that the top ministerial officials from the Union ministry of commerce, on the directions of the Union minister Nirmala Seetharaman, had met me and sought an opinion. As per my conversation with them I understand that Mangalore might get the first startup district tag. But I have not received anything in writing yet”.

Jagadeesha further said, “We are looking at an area of 20,000sqft in the centre of the city which has a social ecosystem for the IT BT professionals. Startup cannot work in isolated areas without social connect. We have two such systems--an incubation centre at STPI in Blueberry Hills behind the A J Hospital and another in Surathkal. But due to the lack of ecosystem and social connect they have not been preferred by the startups”.
What is this social connect? As per earlier news centre wants incubation and tinkering facilities in many colleges and schools around Mangalore. Yes, already existing startups in metro cities for their expansion in tier-II cities may have this type of "social connect" issue but not for student startups. For students continuing in same college as startup should not be an issue. The startup "Deccan Airsports" went from Pandeshwar to MITE campus. Whether "social connect" is better in MITE than Padeshwar (near Forum Mall)? (Read the news above of MITE opening 10 incubation centers in its campus). And Diya system opened it new office in an isolated area of Maryhill. Anyway, as per earlier news NMAMIT innovation building at Nitte is almost getting ready and innovation centre will be launched in another two months. By the way, I hope the state government funded 'Common Instrumental Centre' or 'Instrumentation Incubator Centre', which is different from the central government sponsored 'startup district', may come up in any 20,000 sqft area in the centre of the city. Let us be clear that the project 'Startup District' is for students in colleges & schools and 'Common Instrumental Centre' is for attracting already existing startups in metro cities to tier-II cities. As mentioned in other news already next visit of Commerce & industry ministry delegation is for identifying road connectivity issues (I wish ministry stresses on developing Surathkal-Airport road and SH67 upto Belman so to improve connectivity to Nitte and Manipal) and ensuring continuous power supply to Incubation Centres.

We can turn Mangalore into a vibrant startup district which also help the tier II city grow.
- Priyank Kharge, IT Minister, Karnataka

Good that the the goverment finally wants the tier II city to grow. Whether detailed plan is ready to relocate people from the parched region to Mangaluru so to make Mangaluru population to grow? How much is the population growth target set by the government for Mangaluru? My only condition is I don't want Mangaluru-Udupi urban belt to grow beyond 4 million people. Let remaining relocation may happen across Belgaum-Hubli-Dharwad, Bellary-Davangere-Shimoga, Bijapur-Gulbarga belts according bearing capacity of those belts.

Hope the Central government considers Government College, Mangalore for a tinkering laboratory and upgrade it. This old college is totally neglected by the successive governments for a long time. Hope even Kannada medium schools get tinkering laboratories.

Out of Agriculture, Education, Healthcare and Manufacturing sectors identified for startups I think in Agricultural Informatics & Health Informatics a few institutes are working on in India and others like Education Informatics, Manufacturing Informatics (Engineering Informatics) are not addressed so far. But I have not gone through NIC projects website completely. But my wish is Mangaluru should have startups in Marine/Maritime Informatics also. (Goa has National Institute of Oceanography working on Marine Bioinformatics & Marine Robotics).

Unisys Announces Winners of Eighth Annual Cloud 20/20™ Technical Project Contest
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In this year's contest, the project titled Fin Assistantby Arpan Kumar Mishra, Datla Manish Varma, Nabil Silva and Sailesh Sriram from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal,won the first prize (Rs. 2,00,000 cash). Nagashree T S, Nikitha Chowta and Sandhya S from Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Mangalore, took the second prize (Rs. 1,25,000 cash) for their project titled CO-DI-RA Messenger.
Crap ATM by students aims to incentivize waste management
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The founders of the company said that their primary objective was to make India a better place to live. The smart ATM that the students are currently working on will automatically detect the nature of the trash (organic or inorganic) and subsequently store the same in separate compartments. Details of each user will be stored on the radio frequency identification (RFID) card, including the amount of waste he or she has disposed of.
So, whether we will be having garbage ATMs on footpath in place of garbage bins hindering pedestrian movements? Or ATMS will be in commercial complexes? Hope even hazardous & electronics waste are collected separately in ATMs. For mixed waste whether next stage would be a robot segregating waste types in ATM itself? But I think, for mixed waste, more efficient segregation will be done in waste yard by automatic waste sorting machines.

Mangaluru: Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme held at XITC, Assaigoli

Centre to promote use of technical textiles - Mangaluru can have startups in medical, industrial, and agro textiles.

Centre giving priority to research: Minister

Is the minister planning to bring any research institute to undivided DK?

Mangaluru: Entrepreneurship Awareness Programme held at XITC

Manipal scientists discover tools to manage nutrition better

CMFRI’s GIS-based info to step up security at sea
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A. P. Dineshbabu, principal scientist at the Mangalore Research Centre of the CMFRI, led a research team of 22 scientists and 85 other members. He said information about the landing centres and operational areas of fishing would be useful in identifying the regions where fishing activities were taking place and also in protecting the lives of fishermen.
Mangaluru: MP Nalin interacts with student interns of APD Foundation
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Abdullah A Rehman briefed the visiting parliamentarian about the various projects undertaken by APD Foundation for addressing air pollution and improper solid waste management related issues in Mangaluru. He was provided with up to date briefing on eight strategic research and development projects such as assessing carbon-footprint of public transport, Hasiru Balmatta, Phase Two of PFT, assessment of the impact of air pollution on auto drivers, and growth and expansion model of APD etc.
NITKians device a warning system for railway crossings

'Need to conduct research on medicinal properties of areca'

Whether startup district scheme is of use to develop lab facilities in any college in Puttur itself?

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