The Government of India has a special emphasis on start-ups & entrepreneurship. Accordingly, the Start-up India initiative was announced by Hon'ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi during his independence day address on 15th August 2015 from the Red Fort. Subsequently, the action plan was taken-up on 16th January 2016. This initiative is based on three pillars: Simplifications & Handholding, Funding Support & Incentives and Industry-Academia Partnership & Incubation centers. Inline with this vision, STPI has kick started the initiative of building a vibrant startup ecosystem in the form of STPI CoEs.
A CoE is a domain-specific specialized incubation facility for start-ups in the area of emerging technologies where the highest-standards and best-practices in terms of infrastructure, technology, leadership, mentoring, training, research & development, funding, networking for the given focus area is made available. STPI CoEs are building innovation driven emerging tech-startups ecosystem in collaborative manner pan India.
1. Electropreneur Park at Delhi (EP 2.0) – an ESDM CoE at IIIT Delhi.
2. IoT OpenLab- A CoE in Internet of Things at STPI Bangalore
3. FinBlue- A CoE in FinTech at STPI Chennai Electropreneur Park
4. Electropreneur Park (EP) - an ESDM CoE at STPI Bhubaneswar
5. NEURON – A CoE in AI/Data Analytics, IoT & AVG at Mohali
6. VARCoE – A CoE in Virtual & Augmented Reality at IIT Bhubaneswar
7. IMAGE - A CoE in Gaming, VFX, Computer Vision and AI at STPI Hyderabad
8. APIARY- A CoE in Blockchain at STPI Gurugram
9. MOTION – A COE in Autonomous Connected Electric Shared (ACES) Mobility at STPI Pune
10. FASAL- A CoE for IoT in Agriculture at Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth (PDKV), Akola
11. MEDTECH- A CoE in Medical Electronics & Health Informatics at SGPGI Lucknow
12. Atal Incubation Centre (AIC) at STPI-Bengaluru
13. Efficiency Augmentation CoE at Bengaluru
14. Kalpataru- A CoE in Industry 4.0 at RINL Visakhapatnam
15. EmTek CoE at Bhubaneswar & Satellite Centre at BPUT, Rourkela