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Kochi: The
manufacturers of BlackBerry, Research in Motion (RIM), will
Thursday open an innovation zone for BlackBerry technologies with
a view to motivating young Indian entrepreneurs.
'Rubus Labs' will be opened at Startup Village here in the
presence of senior officials of BlackBerry, including its global
vice-president Alec Saunders and India managing director Sunil
Dutt.
It is for the first time that RIM is setting up such an innovation
zone in the Asia-Pacific region and Kerala has been selected to be
part of this momentous collaboration that would ignite the
imagination of students, potential entrepreneurs and tech-savvy
people.
Sijo Kuruvilla George, CEO of Startup Village, said the village
would be the powerhouse of the future telecom technology
revolution in the country by incubating over 1,000 startups over
the next decade and transform Kerala into 'Silicon Coast'.
"RIM, the global game-changer in the mobile industry, will give
pre-launch access to its latest devices and operating systems,
apart from technological assistance. Rubus Labs will host regular
activities like BlackBerry Hackathons and Bar Camps, besides
training sessions for student entrepreneurs. The lab will also be
open to school students to expose them to innovative
technologies," said George.
As an alliance partner, Startup Village would get stock devices of
the BlackBerry family, including handsets and playbooks, from RIM.
The partnership will also facilitate Startup Village to work with
BlackBerry partner funds to co-invest in the startup firms.
Startup Village was set up jointly by the National Science and
Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB) under the
Department of Science and Technology (DST) of the central
government and the Kerala government-run Technopark, in
collaboration with MobME Wireless.
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