Chennai: Indian Institute of Technology Madras and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) have joined together to nurture and promote innovative green start-ups across the country.
This initiative will enable brainstorming sessions between academia and industry to create deep-tech and disruptive research ideas and help start-ups gain industry access for pilot demonstrations of their cleantech ideas, a press release said.
Towards these objectives, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (GDC), IIT Madras and CII- Sohrabji Green Business Centre (CII-Godrej GBC) to nurture and promote innovative green start-ups at Hyderabad 31 August, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre.
This collaboration will facilitate novel research ideas and innovative ventures in the cleantech space that would be trained and mentored by GDC at various academic institutions across India, and enabling the startups so created in reaching out to industry for networking and business opportunities as they seek to scale, the release said.