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Nodal Partners

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Nodal partners: a network of academic, industrial and grassroots institutions in Tamil Nadu.

In order to take innovations to the rural market we need to

  • Establish a model for incubating innovations
  • Scale up the process using the Hub and Spoke model.

Nodal partners play a key role in both phases. They network with other local institutions, NGOs and sections of rural society, playing a key role in the planning, implementation and review of our initiatives at the ground level. In turn, we support nodal partners financially and build their capacity, so that in the long run they can develop the capabilities to facilitate incubation.

At present we have five Nodal Partners, each with a Project Coordinator in charge of activities.

Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Vellore

http://www.vit.ac.in/
Established: 1984

  • VIT is a leading name in engineering education. It was the first educational institution in India to be awarded the ISO 9002 certification, for three years, by DNV, Netherlands.
  • All programmes run by VIT are accredited as 'Grade A' by National Board of Accreditation, Government of India.
  • It originally had just 3 undergraduate courses.

Now, it has

  • 7 schools
  • 17 undergraduate programmes
  • 28 post graduate programmes and M. Phil as well as PhD programmes

L-RAMP Nodal Cell Coordinator at VIT:
A. Balachandran, Manager,
Technology Business Incubator (VIT-TBI),
VIT-University, Vellore

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore

PSG TechPSG Techhttp://www.psgtech.edu/
Established: 1951

  • PSG College of Technology is one of the many educational institutions run by the PSG & Sons Charities Trust in the well-known industrial centre of Coimbatore.
  • It is affiliated to Anna University in Chennai
  • It has 48 full time and part time programmes in Science, Engineering and Management at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
  • It is ISO 9001 certified and has a long standing tradition of close interaction with industry.

L-RAMP Nodal Cell Coordinator at PSG Tech:
K. Suresh Kumar,
Manager, PSG Science and Technology Entrepreneurial Park (PSG-STEP),
PSG College of Technology,
Coimbatore