TRECSTEP

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Innovator Identification Camp Coimbatore 7th
October 2006
Welcoming You !
TREC-STEP Tiruchirappalli Regional Engineering
College Science and Technology Entrepreneurs
Park. India
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• TREC-STEP
• First Business Incubator, established in 1985
• Objectives
• Promoting Business Incubation of New Ventures
• Facilitating Technology Development
• Enabling Industrial Development
• Training in Technology and Management Skills
• Dissemination and Replication
• Promoting Innovation, Entrepreneurship and
  Technology
• Self Supporting Organization
• Promoted by
• DST, GOT, Central and State FIs and NITT

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New Ventures
Business Incubators
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Awards won
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trec-step development intervention....
Messengers, Mentors and Models
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161 Ventures Profile
in last 12 years
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Venture Highlights
The Top 10 Harish Rengacharya Design
Digitization Ananthakrishnan Camshaft
OEM Balakumar Manufacturing Textile
Tools Venkatesh Solar Equipments Sivasubraman
ian Key Pads for appliances SivaBalan CNC
Manufacturing Systems Manuel Luckose Dehydrated
Fruit Pulps Shanmugavel Flame
Scanner Shankarraj Testing Weldments
Year Turnover Employment 1993 0
0 Reality Now 2006 50 cr. 1200
persons Cumulative Dreams 2015 3000 cr.
60,000 persons
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TREC-STEP, a Resource Network for Development
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World Bank InfoDev - DST Support Project
'Developing ICT Synergies for incubating
Start-ups'
TREC-STEP Business Incubation Eco System
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EU-India DST Business Inc Networking Project
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Innovation Fund TePP Programme of DSIR

• Grant for Individual Innovators
• Up to a Million Re grant. Out sourced for the
  first time
• Coverage Tamilnadu, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh,
  Karnataka, Andaman Nicobar
• Target 20 Innovators 200 Application

Incubation at Trichy Regional Incubation Network
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The Incubation Fund . . .
O W N F U N D ? ?
Banks VCs
STEPs / TBIs
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Innovation Funding
TREC-STEP Incubation Universe of Trichy Region
Platforms for Global Ventures
T R A I N I N G
TRECSTEP
Cluster Development
Incubation Universe
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Science Parks and Business Incubators are
the greatest innovation of the 21st Century
Industrialization
- Jiang Ziamin, Former Chinese
Premier
Thank you !
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Reinforcing and Integrating Incubation Activities
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Development . . . . Two co-travelers are
lost in the desert. They are dying from
hunger and thirst..
Finally, they come to a high wall. On the other
side, they can hear the sound of a waterfall and
birds singing. Above, they can see the branches
of a lush tree extending over the top of the
wall. Its fruit look delicious.
One of them manages to climb over the wall and
disappears down the other side.
The other, instead, returns to the desert to
help other lost travelers find their way to the
oasis.
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Innovation New products / processes
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Leveraging
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Challenges facing Entrepreneurs in India
Globalization
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Promotion of TREC-STEP DST-Intel Business Plan
Competition
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Trec-step _at_ Regional Inucbation Network !
Technology Incubators
Incubator of Incubators
TREC- STEP
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Nilagiri Mountain Railway Project
Project for Preserving the Steam
Locomotive Upgradation of Coal firing to
Oil-firing system

• Non availability of coal Manual Handling

Project Cost Rs. 2.7 mln vs Rs.160 mln
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Nilagiri Mountain Railway

• Heritage Mountain Train of Ooty
• Surviving Steam Locomotive
• Uphill track from Mettupalayam to Conoor 27
  kms 1900 m
• Unique track with Rack and Pinion Arrangements

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Nilagiri Mountain Railway Project

• Engineering wonder of Yester years
• 127 bridges and 13 tunnels
• Period of the project 1 year
• Team of Entrepreneurs
• 110 trials

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• Launched on 22nd Sept.,02 Perfectly Smooth
  Functioning, so far
• Pulling 6 coaches ahead of schedule after 17
  years
• Champion Rescuer Engine
• Eliminated Manual fuel handling and Pollution
  
• Best Innovation Award 2003 from Railway Board