Seed Support Scheme
TDB has provided financial assistance of Rs. 100 lakh each as grant to 36 Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) and Science & Technology Entrepreneur Park (STEPs) aggregating Rs. 3600 lakh under Seed support System for Start-ups in Incubators to incubate innovative technological ideas and to graduate them to successful commercialization. The assistance is positioned to create techno-entrepreneurs apart from acting as a bridge between development & commercialization of the technologies. The grant is meant to support the start-ups primarily for product development, testing & trials, test marketing, mentoring, professional consultancy, filing patents, manpower and other area as deemed necessary.
The financial assistance by TDB would facilitate the STEPs/TBIs to build up an incubation fund out of the inflows over a period of 5 years. The inflow would be ploughed back to support the next round of start-ups. The assistance to the incubatees may be in form of loan or equity.
36 STEPs/TBIs (Listed below) have been released Rs. 23 crores.
| S. No. | Name of the Incubator |
|---|---|
| First Round | |
| 1. | JSSATE-STEP, NOIDA (U.P.) |
| 2. | VIT-TBI, Vellore |
| 3. | TREC-STEP, Tiruchirapalli |
| 4. | SINE IIT, Bombay |
| 5. | CIIE IIM, Ahmedabad |
| Second Round | |
| 6. | PSG College of Technology, STEP Coimbatore |
| 7. | SJCE-STEP, Mysore |
| 8. | TBI-KEC, Perundurai, Erode |
| 9. | SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Centre, IIT Kanpur |
| 10. | Agri Business Incubators (ABI) (ICRISAT), Patancheru |
| Third Round | |
| 11. | Amity Business Incubator, NOIDA (U. P.) |
| 12. | NITK-STEP, Karnataka |
| 13. | IITMs Rural Technology and Business Incubator, IIT Madras |
| 14. | Entrepreneurship Development Centre, NCL Pune |
| 15. | Amrita Technology Business Incubator, Kollam , Kerala |
| Fourth Round | |
| 16. | Manipal University, Manipal, Karnataka |
| 17. | NDBI, NID, Ahmedabad |
| 18. | NIT Calicut |
| 19. | Technopark, Trivandrum Kerala |
| 20. | IKP Knowledge Park, Secunderabad (AP) |
| 21. | FITT, IIT Delhi, New Delhi |
| 22. | Villgro Innovations Foundation, Chennai |
| 23. | SIDBI-IIT, Kanpur (Assisted earlier) |
| 24. | JSSATE-STEP (Assisted earlier) |
| 25. | TREC-STEP, Tiruchirapally (Assisted earlier) |
| 26. | BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan |
| Fifth Round | |
| 27. | eHealth Technology business Incubator, Bangalore |
| 28. | EKTA Incubation Centre, Kolkata |
| 29. | CIIE-IIM, Ahmadabad (Assisted earlier) |
| 30. | KIIT-Technology Business Incubator, Bhubneswar |
| 31. | MITCON Consultancy & Engineering Services Ltd, Pune |
| 32. | Science & Technology Park, University of Pune |
| 33. | IAN Mentoring and Incubation Services, New Delhi |
| 34. | Banyan Intellectual Initiatives – IIIT, Hyderabad |
| 35. | Technology Incubation and Entrepreneurship Training Society (TIETS)-TBI, IIT Kharagpur |
| 36. | Technology Incubation Centre, IIT, Guwahati (Assam) |
