RIM’s innovation zone in Kerala

Jun 01, 2012 |

Kochi

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BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion (RIM) is to set up its innovation zone here, the first in the Asia Pacific region.

RIM vice-president Alec Saunders told mediapersons here on Thursday that the BlackBerry zone at the Rubus Labs in the Startup Village at Kalamassery, near here, would be followed with two others in the country this year.

The zone would showcase the latest technologies from BlackBerry which would be inspiration for future entrepreneurs. Those at the zone would get the new versions of the smartphone much in advance and get trained to develop new technologies, he said.

The zone would host regular developer activities such as ‘BlackBerry Hackathons and ‘Bar Camps’ and training would be imparted in the 126 engineering colleges in the state through the BlackBerry apps by student entrepreneurs programme, said RIM India managing director Sunil Dutt. He refused to get into details of investment and only said it was an ongoing process.

Union technology development board secretary Harkesh Mittal said that the state was leading in innovations in the country.

The incubation centre at Technopark was one successful venture pointing to the large number of innovators coming from the state. “For every rupee invested, the return was thrice that in three years,” he added.

The Startup village promoted by the union and state governments has a slew of incentives such as three-year service tax holiday and funding opportunities for tech startups, according to Village chairman Sanjay Vijaykumar.

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