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To fortify its innovation-led maturation agenda, the Tamil Nadu authorities has unveiled India’s archetypal dedicated Deep Tech Policy.
Chief Minister M.K. Stalin released the Tamil Nadu Deep Tech Startup Policy 2025-2026 (TNDTSP) astatine UmagineTN 2026. The argumentation aims to presumption the State arsenic the country’s premier heavy tech hub by fostering precocious innovation, driving concern growth, and empowering Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, portion gathering a robust ecosystem for heavy and emerging technologies to accelerate Tamil Nadu’s travel towards a $1 trillion economy.
The iTNT Hub volition service arsenic the nodal implementing bureau for the TNDTSP. It volition location a dedicated squad to coordinate each initiatives, negociate funds, and enactment arsenic a azygous constituent of interaction for stakeholders. “The argumentation sets wide priorities to physique a globally competitory heavy tech ecosystem done targeted initiatives that presumption Tamil Nadu arsenic a preferred destination for heavy tech entrepreneurship,” Minister for Information Technology and Digital Services Palanivel Thiaga Rajan said successful the argumentation note.
The extremity of the argumentation is to enactment 100 heavy tech start-ups and mobilise ₹100 crore of nationalist and backstage investments, including task superior and co-investments. Through this policy, the State intends to execute 10 exertion transportation oregon licensing deals from world and probe and improvement (R&D) institutions for commercialisation by manufacture oregon start-ups and facilitate 25% maturation successful yearly patent filings by heavy tech start-ups.
Over 10,000 students and professionals volition beryllium trained successful heavy tech skills (artificial intelligence, instrumentality learning, robotics, biotech, etc.,) done specialised skilling programmes and 10 probe fellowships volition beryllium awarded. The argumentation is unfastened to heavy tech start-ups, including early-stage oregon growth-stage ventures registered successful Tamil Nadu that are built connected caller scientific/technological discoveries, ain oregon make proprietary intelligence properties, and people ample unmet marketplace needs with high-growth potential.
It is besides unfastened to universities and method institutes engaging successful heavy tech R&D, exertion transfer, oregon commercialisation partnerships (for example, by spinning disconnected start-ups oregon collaborating connected merchandise development). Established companies, firm R&D labs, planetary capableness centres, and manufacture consortia investing successful oregon partnering with heavy tech start-ups — including done co-innovation projects, firm task capital, oregon aviator deployment of caller technologies — tin beryllium a portion of this journey.
To suffice for fiscal enactment nether the policy, the company, start-up, oregon entity indispensable person either a registered bureau successful Tamil Nadu, oregon an operational beingness specified arsenic a back-office, R&D facility, oregon immoderate progressive concern operations successful Tamil Nadu. The entity indispensable employment astatine slightest 25% of its full workforce (excluding declaration employees) wrong Tamil Nadu.
