BIRAC-BioNEST Incubator, Industrial Biotech Park, Kathua

CSIR-IIIM runs this centre inside the Industrial Biotech Park at Ghatti in Kathua district, which it describes as the first industrial biotech park in North India. The institute acts as the project management unit for the park under an agreement with the J&K Science, Technology and Innovation Council. In 2025 the centre was reported to be supporting fifteen startups.

What you get

• Incubation support and mentoring
• Access to the park's herbal extraction units, fermentation facilities, analytical laboratories and distillation facilities
• Micropropagation and plant tissue culture facilities
• Job-oriented skill development programmes run at the park

Who can apply

• No eligibility rules are published
• The park's stated priority areas are agriculture biotechnology, healthcare biotechnology, nutraceuticals and botanical extracts, and process biotechnology
• Companies from outside Jammu and Kashmir have committed to work there, so it is not limited to the union territory

How to apply: there is no form. Some ventures have started by handing the Director a letter of intent setting out what they want to do at the park. Write to the incubator at iiim.tbi@iiim.res.in.