Science and Technology Park Pune (Scitech Park) is India’s oldest and leading technology accelerator and business incubator established by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India in 1986. Scitech Park is located on the campus of Savitribai Phule Pune University and is a not-for-profit trust and society. Scitech Park is also a Satellite Centre for Policy Research under the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.

Scitech Park’s vision is to ‘Convert Knowledge into Wealth’ and its key mandate includes –

• technology acceleration and commercialisation

• business incubation

• science and technology based advisory services to public and private organisations

• innovation ecosystem development and policy research

Over more than three decades, Scitech Park has invested in more than 240 S&T based startups and supported more than 1000 companies from diverse industry sectors such as Energy, Mobility, Medical, Education, Manufacturing, Cleantech, Circularity, Biotech and Agriculture. To support such emerging technologies, Scitech Park regularly engages with its global network of innovation parks, government agencies, investors, associates, experts, partners and vendors.

Scitech Park is actively supported by various government agencies such as Department of Science and Technology (GoI), Department of Biotechnology (GoI), Startup India, Invest India and Maharashtra State Innovation Society. We are a founding member of the Indian Science Park’s and Business Incubators’ Association (ISBA) and a member of the Asian Association of Business Incubation (AABI) having members from 19 countries. Our close association with more than a dozen world leading science parks and innovation from across the globe helps add value and exposure to our member startups and associate companies and organisations.

In addition to our incubation program, Scitech Park is also a Satellite Policy Research Centre to the Ministry of Science and Technology, Govt. of India and we frequently assist the government for policy research and writing, technology forecasting and assessment and vision planning.

Scitech Park's sustainability services include ESG reporting, materiality assessment, net-zero emissions and decarbonisation planning, energy transition planning, carbon accounting and sequestration monitoring, built environment decarbonisation planning, circularity planning for waste streams, and related management training and workshops.

Scitech Park has vast experience in conducting environmental impact assessment and monitoring, environmental conservation planning and implementing high impact socio-economic and environmental projects. Some of these include Mangrove mapping and conservation planning for Mumbai region, Reforestation project for Hilton Shilimb, Vision 2030 plan for Thane District, Slum free plan of action for Bhavnagar, Clean and Green MIDC Policy and more than 50 small and large EIA projects throughout India.

The Park has delivered cutting-edge GIS-based solutions and services across India for asset mapping and monitoring, data mapping, infrastructure mapping, digital twinning, land use change monitoring, town planning and boundary mapping and digitisation, environmental impact monitoring and time series analysis for documenting historic and present conditions. Our open source web-GIS ERP platform incorporates advanced data analysis and representation tools, dashboards and geospatial information and can be customised to be used as a Unified Decision Making System. AI/ML and Blockchain integration is being explored for wider, faster, more reliable and transparent applications.

Scitech Park's flagship program – ‘Scitech CIII’ (Centre for Invention, Innovation and Incubation) is designed to enable us to scale up our efforts to support budding innovators and entrepreneurs and to handhold academic institutions to develop their ecosystem for innovation and entrepreneurship development. Through the Scitech CIII program we have established centres in Maharashtra state; at Navi Mumbai, Pune, Satara and Kolhapur. The Scitech CIII model is based on a strong industry partnership that brings the industry to the campus as an advisor, mentor and skills trainer and also facilitates procurement of the correct equipment and software at discounted rates and in line with future industry demands.

Scitech Park is hugely active in the regional and rural development sector with the support of its philanthropic partners on aspects such as health and hygiene, energy and electrification, watershed planning, plantation, education, agriculture, tourism etc. Through various donor driven initiatives, we have delivered several impactful projects covering various aspects such as environmental conservation, livelihood development, skills training, entrepreneurship development, health and education to name a few. Scitech Park is eligible to receive donations as well as CSR funds. Scitech Park is registered under 80G, 12A and CSR Form 1 and also under FCRA.

Visit Scitech park website here - www.scitechpark.org.in