Minister of Karnatka for IT/BT and ST, Large and Medium Scale Industries, including Sugar, K J George, inaugurated the K-Tech Innovation Hub (K-Tech Hub) at Hanuman Nagar in Belagavi on 17 July 2018.
The government has proposed to establish these facilities in Tier-2 cities to leverage the existing manufacturing clusters and local human resource available in academic and industrial bodies.
The hub provides space and infrastructure, instrumentation, prototyping facilities, business set-up support, world-class innovation network and connections under one roof.
The K-Tech Innovation Hub is a ‘Product Start-up Incubator-cum-Common Instrumentation Facility’ located in an 8,000 sq ft building. The government intends to establish five such K-TI Hubs across the state. The Belagavi hub is based on the IKP engineering, design and entrepreneurship network.
The government has appointed IKP Knowledge Park, a science park and technology business incubator, to set up five innovation hubs in the state. The 2020 plan of the government is to make Belagavi a technology super-centre in five years.