SRM to set up tech and research park by 2027, along the lines of the IIT Madras research park

Students from Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities are quite keen on start-ups, but many are constrained either by limited access to funding or geographical barriers, according to Shantanu Sudhakar Patil, an orthopedic physician and direction of entrepreneurship and innovation at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology (SRMIST). In order to bridge this gap, SRMIST has established a rural-tech incubator at its agricultural campus, he said.

He was speaking The Hindu Deep Tech Summit 2026 on Tuesday (April 7, 2026), in a fireside chat with R. Kalpana Sastry, a scientist, agri food innovation consultant, and executive director of the Society for Technology Managament (STEM), on the topic of ‘Leveraging a multi-disciplinary university ecosystem for enabling the deep tech revolution’.