Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurs (TIDE) Scheme was put in place by MeitY in 2008 to promote innovation by nurturing startups in Information Technology, Communications (ICT) domain. Under the TIDE Scheme, financial assistance is provided to Institutions of Higher Learning to strengthen their Technology Incubation Centres for enabling young entrepreneurs to create technology startup companies for commercial exploitation of technologies developed by them. Under the scheme, 27 TIDE Centres and 2 Virtual TIDE centres have been supported at institutes of higher learning all over India.
List of TIDE 1.0 Centres
There are 27 TIDE centres under the TIDE scheme are being supported at academic institutions across India, which are as follows:
- Innovation and Incubation Centre (TIIC), Atal Bihari Vajpayee Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management (ABV-IIITM), Gwalior
- Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT Bombay
- Amrita Technology Business Incubator (Amrita-TBI), Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University
- Foundation for Innovation and Technology Transfer (FITT), IIT Delhi
- Entrepreneurship Development Cell (EDC), Banasthali Vidyapith
- IITGN Incubation Centre (IIC), IIT Gandhinagar
- Technology Business Incubator, BITS Pilani
- IITG-Technology Incubation Centre (IITG-TIC), IIT Guwahati
- Society for Technology Incubation & Development of Entrepreneurs (STIDE), CURAJ
- SIDBI Innovation and Incubation Center (SIIC), IIT Kanpur
- DA-IICT Centre for Entrepreneurship and Incubation (DCEI),DA-IICT
- Science Technology Entrepreneurship Park (STEP), IIT Kharagpur
- IIITA Info Communication Incubation Centre (IIIC), IIIT Allahabad
- Rural Technology and Business Incubator(RTBI), IIT Madras
- IIITB Innovation Center, IIIT Bangalore
- Center for Innovation and Business Incubation (CIBI), IIT Ropar
- Centre for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE), IIIT Hyderabad
- KIIT Technology Business Incubator (KIIT-TBI), KIIT, Bhubaneswar
- Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship (CIIE), IIM Ahmedabad
- Technology Business Incubator- NITC (TBI-NITC), NIT Calicut
- Nadathur S Raghavan Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning (NSRCEL), IIM Bangalore
- NITK- Science Technology Entrepreneurship Park (NITK-STEP), NITK Surathkal
- ROLTA Innovation and Incubation Centre, MANIT Bhopal
- Centre for Entrepreneurship Development and Incubation (CEDI), NIT Trichy
- Society for Innovation & Development (SID), IISc Bangalore
- Technology Incubation and Development of Entrepreneurship (TIDE-UoH), University of Hyderabad
- IIT Roorkee