Technopark TBI’s Blog

Located inside one of the greenest and biggest Technopark in the World , T-TBI works for ‘Spreading the Spirit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship’ thereby contributing in a big way to the economic development of the country

Indian STEPs(Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Park) and Business Incubators Association [ISBA] and TREC-STEP jointly organised “The International Conference on Business Incubation: Creating an Innovation Economy through Entrepreneurs and Incubation” from 29th  to 31st  January, 2009 at Chennai.

This international conference on Business Incubation saw the confluence of great minds in Incubation which brings together the incubation and interface experts, promoters and the potentials in business incubation across the globe. There were 300 participants from Incubation arena with 48 International delegates.The conference focussed and deliberated on evolutionary issues and trends in business incubation, complementing factors for incubation, incubation mapping, latest incubation tools and techniques, new perspectives development and future hold for development of Innovation and Entrepreneurship through Business Incubators.

This year ISBA instituted Awards for the Best Start up Entrepreneur. On 31st evening Jan 2009 ISBA Awards  were given away during the Valedictory Session of ISBA 2009 Conference. The award ceremony was a proud moment for Technopark TBI with Two of the Incubatees MobMe Wireless Solutions P Ltd winning the “ISBA 2009 Award for the Best Start up ICT Company of  2008″  and Light logics Holography and Optics P Ltd  winning the “ ISBA 2009 Award  for the Best Start up Engineering company for 2008 “ .The Awards were given away by Dr. Ponmudi, Honorable Minister for Higher Education, Govt of Tamil Nadu.

The Award Committee received a total of 64 proposals from various Incubators across India. The  ISBA National Award is a recognition for  the outstanding startups and entrepreneurs