Government Incubators in India (Page 3)
Government of Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh's state government, nurturing startups through its Startup Policy and 36inc.
National Credit Guarantee Trustee Company (NCGTC)
Government-owned trustee that guarantees loans made by banks and other lenders to micro units and MSMEs. Founders cannot apply to it directly; the way in is through their own lender.
Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India
Government ministry promoting tribal welfare and entrepreneurship through scholarships, grants, and incubation programs.
National Highways Authority of India
India's highway infrastructure authority that runs innovation challenges for smart road and mobility startups.
Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala's premier government medical institution, hosting a biomedical incubator for health-tech startups.
Jharkhand Raksha Shakti University
Jharkhand's security and public administration university expanding into tech innovation and startup programs.
Foundation for Technology & Business Incubation (FTBI), NIT Rourkela
The incubator of NIT Rourkela — a Section 8 company on campus, open to outside founders as well as students, hosting DST, MeitY and coal-sector funding schemes.
College of Vocational Studies, University of Delhi
Delhi University's vocational studies college with entrepreneurship programs for students in applied and professional fields.
Motilal Nehru College, University of Delhi
Delhi University's co-educational college with innovation programs for student entrepreneurs in North Delhi.
Shivaji College, University of Delhi
Central Delhi's historic DU college with an innovation cell and entrepreneurship programs for student founders.
Sri Aurobindo College, University of Delhi
South Delhi's liberal arts college with entrepreneurship programs for founders in social enterprise and humanities-driven innovation.
Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, University of Delhi
Delhi University's prominent Sikh minority college with an active E-Cell and startup programs for student founders.
Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment
Central ministry behind schemes for Scheduled Caste entrepreneurs: a bank-loan guarantee, NSFDC loans, and an equity fund whose window has closed.
STPI CoE-EA, Bengaluru
STPI's Bengaluru centre for efficiency-augmentation startups — Industry 4.0 incubation in Jayanagar, run with the Government of Karnataka.
Goa Startup Mission
Startup Goa is the Government of Goa's startup programme, run by the Startup and IT Promotion Cell. It certifies startups, pays back eligible costs under state schemes and runs a free accelerator.
Goa State Innovation Council (GSInC)
Autonomous body under the Department of Science & Technology & Waste Management, Government of Goa, implementing innovation and science awards for Goan innovators.
All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE)
Statutory body of the Government of India for technical education, running student innovation and startup schemes.
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank)
Export-Import Bank of India (Exim Bank) is a statutory export-finance bank in Mumbai. It lends to exporters, backs bank guarantees for MSME exports, and runs Ubharte Sitaare for export-capable companies.
ICAR Central Rice Research Institute
Rice research institute in Cuttack, Odisha, founded in 1946, whose Agribusiness Incubation Centre trains agripreneurs and incubates agri startups and Farmer Producer Companies.
Central Tool Room & Training Centre (CTTC), Bhubaneswar
A Government of India tool room and technical training centre in Bhubaneswar, under the Ministry of MSME, running tooling courses and the CIIE incubator for hardware manufacturing startups.
Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology, Baddi
Government centre for plastics skilling, testing and technical support at Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, listed by the Ministry of MSME as a host institute.
Central Tool Room
A Ministry of MSME tool room in Ludhiana, set up in 1980 as an Indo-German project, running on-campus and off-campus incubation for startups.
Electronics Service Training Centre
Government of India society at Ramnagar, Nainital, offering electronics and electrical training, a three-year polytechnic and project support for startups.
Regional Centre for Biotechnology
A government biotechnology research and education institute in Faridabad that runs the BSC BioNEST bio-incubator for biotech startups.
All India Institute of Ayurveda (AIIA)
The Ministry of Ayush's institute in Sarita Vihar, New Delhi, whose AIIA-iCAINE centre incubates Ayurveda and Ayush ventures.
Process and Product Development Centre (PPDC), Agra
Government tool room, testing lab and training centre in Agra — MSMEs and founders buy machining, testing and skills here, not a place in a cohort.
Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship
The Indian Institute of Entrepreneurship is an autonomous government institute in Guwahati, under the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, running entrepreneurship training, mentoring and rural enterprise programmes.
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres
ICAR research institute at Nilganj, Barrackpore, working on jute and allied fibre crops through research stations and KVKs.
Indo German Tool Room Ahmedabad
An MSME Technology Centre and tool room in Vatva, Ahmedabad, running tool and die making and CAD/CAM/CAE training alongside design, production and consultancy for industry.
Gujarat Student Startup and Innovation Hub (i-Hub)
Gujarat's state incubation hub for student innovators, running grant, IP, incubation and women-founder programmes from Ahmedabad.
Institute for Design of Electrical Measuring Instruments (IDEMI), Mumbai
A Government of India technology centre in Mumbai for the electrical and electronics instrument industry, running design, tool room, calibration, testing and free skills training, with a two-year incubation offer at its Bengaluru extension centre.
National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises
Ministry of MSME training institute in Hyderabad running a public calendar of short courses for MSME owners and aspiring entrepreneurs.
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Business incubator of the Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics in Hyderabad, giving bioinnovators lab space, mentoring and industry networks on a rental, equity-free model with rolling intake.
SCIENCE CITY OF ANDHRA PRADESH, GOVT. OF A.P.
Government of Andhra Pradesh's flagship Science City in Amaravati — envisioned as India's model hub for science discovery, technology innovation, and startup incubation.
BANGALORE BIOINNOVATION CENTRE
Government of Karnataka bioinnovation centre in Bengaluru, running pre-incubation, incubation and accelerator programmes for biotech and life-sciences startups.
CSB-Central Silk Technological Research Institute
Central Silk Board's technology research institute in Bangalore, founded 1983. It licenses silk technologies, runs a paid textile testing lab and offers training and consultancy to the silk industry.
ICFRE- Institute of Wood Science and Technology
ICFRE's Institute of Wood Science and Technology in Bengaluru runs a wood-products incubation centre with work space and wood-working machinery for inventors and entrepreneurs.
ICAR Indian Institute of Spices Research
ICAR's spice research institute in Kozhikode, whose Agribusiness Incubation Unit incubates entrepreneurs and enterprises across the spices value chain.
Govt. Engineering College, Palakkad
Technology Business Incubator at Government Engineering College Palakkad, giving selected start-ups office space, broadband and technical advice.
Centre for Management Development
A Government of Kerala management consulting and training institution in Thiruvananthapuram, and a Host Institute for the Ministry of MSME's innovation scheme.
Technopark Technology Business Incubator
Kerala Startup Mission, the Government of Kerala's nodal agency for startups, running funding schemes and incubation from Technopark, Trivandrum.
Central Footwear Training Institute, Chennai
An autonomous Government of India institute in Chennai that trains people for the footwear industry and runs entrepreneurship and skill programmes under the Ministry of MSME.
Jharkhand Government Mini Tool Room Training Centre
Government tool room in Ranchi, Jharkhand, with an AICTE-approved diploma in tool and die making and short livelihood enterprise courses for 10th Pass youth.
ICAR - National Meat Research Institute
ICAR - National Meat Research Institute in Hyderabad (formerly the National Research Centre on Meat), a government research institute that runs paid training for meat-processing entrepreneurs.
CSIR Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute
Government of India research institute in Durgapur, West Bengal, approved as an MSME Host Institute and Business Incubator, with PhD and integrated MTech-PhD programmes.
Advanced Technical Training Centre
Government of Sikkim polytechnic at Bardang whose campus hosts one of the state's incubation centres — the centre is run by the Commerce & Industries Department with the SEED Cell, not by ATTC.
nasscom CoE – IoT & AI
MeitY and nasscom's Centre of Excellence for IoT & AI — deep-tech incubation, an in-house electronics lab and enterprise pilot connects, from centres in Gurugram, Bengaluru, Gandhinagar and Visakhapatnam.
National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration
Deemed-to-be-University under India's Ministry of Education; runs a rolling Grant-in-Aid Scheme funding research and capacity-building in educational planning and administration.