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64-558: Dr. Rathan.U. Kelkar IAS, Principal Secretary (Electronics & IT) Technopark is a technology park in Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala , India . Established on 28 July 1990 by the Government of Kerala , under chief minister E K Nayanar , However, the government was unable to commence building. The next council of ministers, led by Mr. K Karunakaran, took the initiative to begin construction and inaugurated

128-644: A 35-acre (0.14 km) hybrid IT-and-residential park as part of Technopark Phase III. iGate (formerly Patni Computer Systems) has already announced that it will set up a Rs 150 crore ($ US 32 million) development centre in Phase III. The second and third phases of expansion of Technopark along with the ramping up of operations of the existing IT units are expected to see an investment of around Rs. 3000–4000 crore (US$ 0.75 billion) and an additional creation of 80,000–100,000 jobs. Taurus Investment Holdings, along with its partners Embassy Group and Asset Homes,

192-473: A facility to foster the development of high-technology industries in the state. Technopark was set up under the auspices of Electronics Technology Park, Kerala—an autonomous body under the Department of Information Technology of the government of Kerala. Technopark's aim was to create infrastructure to support the development of high-technology companies. On 31 March 1991, the foundation stone for Technopark

256-560: A joint venture: This venture was closed down after 12 months. RM manufactured desktop and server computers in its Oxfordshire premises from 1978 until 2014. The first model that RM shipped was the RML 380Z , based on the Z80 processor and CP/M operating system. This was followed in 1982 by the Link 480Z , essentially a smaller, diskless 380Z with a simple networking capability, enabling it to use

320-439: A massage parlour, Vaisakha, and a multi-cuisine restaurant. The Technopark Adventure Club provides adventure activities to employees of Technopark and their families. It organises activities such as parasailing , rock climbing , rappelling , trekking and camping , paragliding . It administers a camp at Munnar , as well as corporate training camps. Tech-A-Break is Technopark's annual cultural extravaganza. Typically held over

384-583: A number of shared resources, such as incubators, programs and collaboration activities, uninterruptible power supply , telecommunications hubs, reception and security , management offices, bank offices, convention center , parking , and internal transportation. Science parks also aim to bring together people who assist the developers of technology to bring their work to commercial fruition, for example, experts in intellectual property law . They can be attractive to university students who may interact with prospective employers and encourage students to remain in

448-576: A number of third-party partners as well as having developed over 5,000 of their own resources – one of the best known and best selling being the Bee-Bot® programmable robot, designed to introduce learners to programming concepts. RM previously offered products from other classroom resources firms it had acquired: Deals with the process management and outsourcing for testing and qualifications; data analysis services for teachers, education managers and policy makers. Clients include Cambridge Assessment and

512-487: A prominent percentage of consultancy firms, as well as technical service firms, including laboratories and quality control firms". The World Intellectual Property Organization defines Science technology parks as territories usually affiliated with a university or a research institution, which accommodate and foster the growth of companies based therein through technology transfer and open innovation . Some science parks include: RM Education RM plc

576-558: A range of educational software including the Kaleidos Virtual learning environment , MathsAlive, DiscoverAlive, Living Library and SuccessMaker, as well as an e-book library management system, RM Books, developed for the education market. They also package software titles from other companies to allow easy centralized installation on RM networks. In 2005 RM was awarded the contract for Glow (formally known as Scottish Schools Digital Network (SSDN) National Intranet project). Under

640-411: A satellite earth station, a 200-seater convention centre , a club, a guest house, a shopping complex (Techno-Mall), banks, ATMs , restaurants and conference rooms on campus. Furthermore, setting up of new units is accelerated by exemption from state-level clearances as well as through ready-to-use incubation facilities. Technopark Express service is a public transport system for Technopark employees. It

704-400: A science park must: "have access to qualified research and development personnel in the areas of knowledge in which the park has its identity; be able to market its high valued products and services; have the capability to provide marketing expertise and managerial skills to firms, particularly small and medium-sized enterprises , lacking such a resource; be inserted in a society that allows for

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768-560: A special company – Kerala State Information Technology Infrastructure Limited (KSITIL) – to take up the work. 204 acres (0.83 km) of the project area has already been acquired. A Request for Qualification was issued on 1 June 2008, and nine major developers, including international majors Emaar and Forest City Enterprises , have applied for qualification. There are three Special Economic Zones (SEZs) inside Technopark. Each economic zone encompasses one of Phases I, II, or III. Phase IV will also become an SEZ once land acquisition

832-670: A tight schedule. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in November 1994 under the name RM plc. Mark Cook joined the Group as chief executive officer in January 2023. Previous CEOs were: Mike Fischer (until 1997), Richard Girling (1997–2002), Tim Pearson (2002–2008), Terry Sweeney (2008–2011), Rob Sirs (2011–2012), Martyn Ratcliffe (2011–13), David Brooks (2013–2021), and Neil Martin (2021–2023). In 2003

896-451: A wide variety of activities, which include embedded software development, smart card technology, enterprise resource planning (ERP), process control software design, engineering and computer-aided design software development, IT Enabled Services (ITES), process re-engineering, animation, and e-business . Then Chief Minister of Kerala, E. K. Nayanar visited the Apple facility in

960-417: Is a British company that specialises in providing information technology products and services to educational organisations and establishments. Its key market is UK education including schools, colleges, universities, government education departments and educational agencies. The company was founded in 1973 as Research Machines Limited . As of 2016 , RM plc employs around 1,700 people, the majority based in

1024-612: Is an institution of higher education and research and development in applied Information Technology and Management. Portals for computational chemistry and agricultural information dissemination are among its areas of focus. IIITM–K is located at present in Park Centre. The Asian School of Business (ASB) used to have its flagship post-graduate management programme in Technopark, before moving it to its own 16 Acre LEED -certified campus in 2011. The Asian School of Business

1088-423: Is building a mixed-use project that is to build 5,500,000 square feet (510,000 m) of floor space on 20 acres (8.1 ha) of land, as a part of Phase 3. The fourth phase of Technopark is also referred to as the "Technocity" project. It involves a mixed use—IT, biotechnology , nanotechnology , commercial and residential development—spread over 500 acres (2.0 km) of land, about 5 km (3.1 mi) from

1152-441: Is completed and will provide a range of economic benefits to the companies operating within Technopark. A sports and recreation club on the campus of Phase I provides diverse facilities for professionals to unwind. These include a gym; a swimming pool; and courts for basketball, badminton, table tennis, and beach volleyball. The club supports tour operators in organising recreational travel of employees and their families; it also has

1216-514: Is managed by a board of governors, which includes Tata Consultancy Services CEO S. Ramadorai and Infosys CEO Kris Gopalakrishnan . Technopark aims to provide the infrastructure and support facilities needed for IT/ITES and electronics companies to function. In addition to office space, it provides utilities and connectivity, which is done either directly or through private partners. Besides, Technopark provides business incubation facilities for start-up firms as well as some social infrastructure for

1280-571: Is owned and administered by the Government of Kerala and is headed by a chief executive officer. In addition to this, it has a governing council and a Project Implementation Board, both of which include top officials of the government. Administrative offices, including that of the CEO, are housed in the Park Centre building. Technopark also hosts a Technology Business Incubation Cell under Kerala Startup Mission . Technopark houses domestic firms, joint ventures, and subsidiaries of foreign companies engaged in

1344-741: The Education Department of Western Australia . The company grew to employ 50 staff located in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Wellington (NZ), servicing over 4,000 schools across Australasia and in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei. RM Asia-Pacific was sold to Civica in 2011. In 2009 the company announced that it was expanding its business into the MENASA region with offices based in Dubai. The company stated that this would be

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1408-661: The International Baccalaureate . From the mid-1990s the company expanded overseas, with international revenues rising to 12% of the total group's revenue in 2009. A contraction in customer spending in RM's core UK education market and slow growth in the overseas businesses prompted it to divest several of them from 2010. RM founded its subsidiary RM Education Solutions India in Thiruvananthapuram in 2003 to develop software and provide central corporate functions. In November 2016 it accounted for approximately 36% of

1472-640: The Maldives and Sri Lanka . Technopark is connected through fibre link, with a self-healing redundant ring architecture, to Reliance Internet's data center and gateway at Mumbai, directly connecting to FLAG , the undersea cable system backbone that connects 134 countries including the U.S. , U.K. , and other countries, in North America, Europe , the Middle East , South East Asia , and Asia Pacific . The Kerala Startup Mission , formerly known as

1536-714: The Micro Channel architecture that featured in the IBM PS/2 , which was faster than the standard ISA architecture, but failed to gain widespread acceptance. RM's fileserver platform became its 'E Series' computers, using the similarly short-lived EISA architecture and using a tower case to allow space for multiple hard disks. These fileservers ran Microsoft LAN Manager (on Microsoft OS/2 ) preconfigured with client Operating System files (Windows 3.0 and later 3.1) for remote booting and bundled with RM-developed tools for managing network users, client PCs and applications. This

1600-722: The United States in 1989. This led to forming of Technopark, India's first IT park and still remains the largest in India. Nayanar laid the foundation stone on 1990 after it was registered under the Travancore Cochin Scientific and Charitable Societies Act. As of 2020, the IT park employs 70,000 people and provides indirect employment to lakhs. In March 1990, the Government of Kerala conceptualised Technopark as

1664-405: The government of India in 1991, and the rapid growth of the global software industry during the 1990s, substantially contributed to this growth. During the global financial crisis of 2007–2010 , the park saw a period of reduced growth in 2009–10, when exports were only 2.8% more than the previous year. During the 2016-17 financial year, the park recorded IT exports of Rs. 5,000 crores. Technopark

1728-945: The personnel working in the park. There are currently about a dozen buildings on the Technopark campus intended for software development . Seven of the buildings are named after rivers in Kerala—the Pamba , the Periyar , the Nila , the Chandragiri , the Gayathri , Bhavani , and the Thejaswini, the seventh building, which was commissioned in February 2007, with over 600,000 sq ft (56,000 m) and 60,000 square metres (650,000 sq ft) of carpet area. There are also independent buildings of private enterprises inside

1792-499: The 1980s RM and its rival Acorn Computers sold thousands of computers to schools in the UK as part of the government's Microelectronics Education Programme . A key model of the time was RM's Z80 -based RML 380Z . The company was invited to tender to supply the BBC micro but declined on grounds that it was not economically feasible to provide so many features at such a low price and to such

1856-808: The 1980s, North Carolina State University , Raleigh lacked space. New possible sites included the state mental-health property and the Diocese of Raleigh property on 1,000 acres (4.0 km ) surrounding the Lake Raleigh Reservoir . The university's Centennial Campus was developed. Sandia Science and Technology Park , NASA Research Park at Ames and the East Tennessee Technology Park at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are examples of research parks that have been developed by or adjacent to US Federal government laboratories. Science and technology park (STP) activity across

1920-574: The European Union has approximately doubled over the last 11–12 years, driven by the growth of the longer standing parks and the emergence of new parks. There are now an estimated 366 STPs in the EU member states that manage about 28 million m2 of completed building floor space, hosting circa 40,000 organisations that employ approximately 750,000 people, mostly in high value added jobs. In the period from 2000 – 2012, total capital investment into EU STPs

1984-584: The Phase I campus: Amstor House, Padmanabham, and M-squared. These buildings have an aggregate floor area of about 3,500,000 sq ft (330,000 m). Other facilities in the campus include: Technopark infrastructure facilities include power backup, uninterrupted water supply, and ambient air conditioning; for all buildings. 100% of electric power is available from the Kerala State Electricity Board Limited (KSEBL) and

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2048-610: The RM Group workforce. In 1993 the company established a subsidiary in Soest, Germany , in order to sell a localized version of RM Net LM, a turnkey Local Area Network product for schools, consisting of file-servers running Microsoft LAN Manager , client PCs running Microsoft Windows 3.1 and including a suite of RM-developed network management applications. Despite a nationwide program of marketing seminars and three pilot sites, RM withdrew within two years. RM Educational Software, Inc.

2112-619: The Technopark Business Incubation Centre (T-BIC), aims to provide economical plug-and-play facilities to start-ups in the IT/ITES fields. This facility has given rise to over 47 successful ventures, many of whom have expanded by taking up space elsewhere in Technopark. T-BIC currently has 8,000 sq ft (740 m). (800 sq m.) at Park Centre, and this is being expanded with another 10,000 sq ft (930 m). (1000 sq m.) in

2176-496: The Window Box system which used Windows 95 , as well as RM Connect, for education and as a successor to RM Net LM. RM Connect comprised Microsoft operating systems at the server (Windows NT and successors) and client (Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and successors), in-house coded tools for managing the network, a predefined software configuration and applications such as Microsoft Office. Diskless network client PCs were discontinued as

2240-409: The backing of powerful, dynamic and stable economic actors, such as a funding agency, political institution or local university ; include in its management an active person of vision, with the power of decision and with the high and visible profile, who is perceived by relevant actors in society as embodying the interface between academia and industry , long-term plans and good management; and include

2304-460: The beginning, by 1995. Since then, Technopark has periodically added new buildings, such as Nila (1997), Gayathri, and Bhavani. With the inauguration of the 850,000 sq ft (79,000 m) "Thejaswini", on 22 February 2007, Technopark became the largest IT Park in India. After that, Leela Group has built a facility, "Leela Infopark", that hosts MNCs like Allianz , Oracle Corporation , D+H , RM Education , and Zafin . Technopark has become

2368-497: The client operating system from Windows 95 onwards had become too large to transfer over the LAN to multiple PCs in a timely manner, so local hard disks were required. From version 2.4 RM Connect was renamed RM Community Connect. In the new millennium RM offered laptops and tablets that bore its name. These were manufactured by Asus and others. In 2013 RM ceased hardware manufacture to focus on software and services. The company offered

2432-584: The company won the contract to deliver online tests for Key Stage 3 ICT . Despite a pilot phase in 2005 involving 45,500 pupils that was judged a success by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority the government cancelled the contract in 2007, shortly before their scheduled introduction. Cuts in the budgets of UK educational establishments in 2011 damaged RM's revenues, leading it to shed hundreds of employees and sell less profitable parts of its business. RM ceased production of computers towards

2496-556: The company's headquarters located on Milton Park , near Didcot, Oxfordshire . RM also has offices across the United Kingdom (Cheshire, Nottinghamshire, Lanarkshire and London) and a software development facility in India. The company was founded in 1973 as Research Machines Limited in Oxford, England, by Mike Fischer and Mike O'Regan , respectively graduates of Oxford and Cambridge Universities . Initially it traded under

2560-527: The course of a week, it kicks off with a Carnival parade and ends with performance by professional bands, dance groups, and musicians. The climactic scenes of the 1997 Malayalam film Superman were filmed in Technopark's Travancore Hall. The 2009 Malayalam film Ritu was extensively shot on the Technopark campus. 8°33′29″N 76°52′52″E  /  8.558°N 76.881°E  / 8.558; 76.881 Technology park The world's first university research park, Stanford Research Park

2624-419: The diesel generators operate with less than 5% annual downtime (with at least 95% uptime, generating electricity). Technopark has its own 110kV electric transformer substation and a 25 mega volt-ampere dedicated internal power distribution system with built-in redundancies at all levels. The water supply is maintained through a dedicated water distribution system. Technopark has other support facilities such as

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2688-429: The end of 2013. RM classifies its business into three areas: The division that deals with technology infrastructure, software and services – including interactive classroom equipment, connectivity, networking software, school management software and support services. This division focuses on products for use in the learning curriculum, trading as TTS, a company acquired in 2004. TTS supply educational resources from

2752-492: The exchange of thoughts in many fields including culture, science and the arts. Science parks are elements of the infrastructure of the global " knowledge economy ". They provide concentration that foster innovation and the development and commercialization of technology and where governments, universities and private companies may collaborate. The developers work in fields such as information technology , pharmaceuticals , science and engineering . Science parks may also offer

2816-600: The file storage of a 'parent' 380Z via CP/NET networking software and Zilog Z-Net network hardware. In 1985 RM released the RM Nimbus PC-186, a desktop computer using the Intel 80186 processor, a development of the 8088 processor used in the IBM PC and IBM PC/XT that defined 'PC compatibility' as a dominant standard for personal computers for decades to come. As the 80186 processor integrated some hardware that

2880-505: The file system level until Windows XP introduced support for NTFS . From the AX model onwards RM computers were PC compatible. The 'X Series' was supplemented by the VX, using the new, 32-bit 80386 processor, marketed as a standalone CAD workstation or network fileserver. RM released M Series computers, primarily used as diskless network clients, using the 80286 and later 80386 processors. These used

2944-523: The first building. The largest information technology (IT) park in Asia in terms of area. Technopark is the first greenest IT Park of India. Technopark has 12.72 million sq ft (1.182 million m) of built-up area, and is home to over 490 companies, employing more than 75,000 professionals, and still growing. It’s set up in a serene environment enveloped in the beautiful Kerala foliage. The policy of economic liberalisation initiated by

3008-460: The flow of knowledge and technology amongst universities, R&D institutions, companies and markets; it facilitates the creation and growth of innovation-based companies through incubation and spin-off processes; and provides other value-added services together with high quality space and facilities.". The Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm , was first presented by Regis Cabral in ten points in 1990. According to this management paradigm,

3072-922: The landlords of attractive and well specified office style buildings. Rather, they are complex organisations, often with multiple owners having objectives aligned with important elements of economic development public policy as well as an imperative to be financially self-sustaining in the longer term. The Association of University Research Parks ( AURP ), is a non-profit association consisting of university-affiliated science parks, almost entirely based in North America. It defines "university research and science parks" as "property-based ventures with certain characteristics, including master planned property and buildings designed primarily for private/public research and development facilities, high technology and science based companies and support services; contractual, formal or operational relationships with one or more science or research institutions of higher education; roles in promoting

3136-815: The local area. Science parks may be designed to enhance the quality of life of the workers. For example, they might be built with sports facilities, restaurants, crèches or pleasant outdoor areas. Apart from tenants, science parks create jobs for the local community. Science parks are specific locations and differ from the wider area high-technology business districts in that they are more organized, planned, and managed. They differ from science centres in that they lead to commercialized products from research. They differ from industrial parks which focus on manufacturing and from business parks which focus on business office locations. Science parks are found worldwide. They are most common in developed countries . In North America there are over 170 science parks. For example, in

3200-401: The name Sintel as a mail-order supplier of electronic components, mainly dealing with the hobbyist market. With the arrival of microprocessors in the mid-1970s, the company expanded into the design and manufacturing of microcomputers. The company shipped its first computer in 1977 to a customer in a Local Education Authority and has been involved with educational computing ever since. In

3264-417: The network, which made disk drives in the client optional. Diskless client computers that loaded their operating system, applications and user data centrally from fileservers were common in UK education for a further decade, partially to avoid the cost of local storage devices such as hard disks, but also to protect system files, as the client Operating Systems MS-DOS and Windows did not offer access control at

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3328-547: The newest Technopark building, Thejaswini . One of the latest companies started at T-BIC is Entiresoft Technologies Private Limited. Technopark has acquired 86 acres (0.35 km) of land, for its Phase II expansion. Technopark has completed acquisition of 100 acres (0.40 km) of land for Phase III expansion. Firms like Larsen & Toubro and the Rahejas are planning major developments within and around Technopark as well. L&T has already announced its plans to set up

3392-667: The present campus. It will be a self-contained IT township with the potential to employ 100,000 people. The expected investment in the project is around Rs 60 billion (over US$ 1.5 billion), according to 2007 estimates. Once Technocity's land acquisition is complete, Technopark will have an extent of close to 850 acres (3.4 km), making it one of India's largest IT satellite townships in terms of geographic area, comparable to that of projects like Mahindra World City in Chennai. The government of Kerala has decided to partner with multiple private developers for Technocity and has formed

3456-442: The protection of product or process secrets, via patents , security or any other means; be able to select or reject which firms enter the park". A science park should: "have a clear identity, quite often expressed symbolically, as the park's name choice, its logo or the management discourse; have a management with established or recognized expertise in financial matters, and which has presented long-term economic development plans; have

3520-847: The single largest source of employment in Kerala, with over seventy thousand people directly working in the facility. Technopark hosts about 470 companies, and a workforce that numbers more than 70,000 personnel, in the IT and ITES sectors: companies such as Allianz–Cornhill , Ernst & Young , Speridian Technologies, Infosys , Guidehouse India, Oracle Corporation , Quest Global, SunTec Business Solutions, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Tata Elxsi , Toonz Media Group, and UST Global , as well as Finastra , H&R Block , IBS Software Services , Nissan Digital, RM Education , Envestnet , Tech Mahindra and RR Donnelly . Technopark hosts two educational and research institutes. The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Kerala , (IIITM–K)

3584-425: The university's research and development through industry partnerships, assisting in the growth of new ventures and promoting economic development; roles in aiding the transfer of technology and business skills between university and industry teams and roles in promoting technology-led economic development for the community or region." The International Association of Science Parks and Areas of Innovation ( IASP ),

3648-399: The worldwide network of science parks and areas of innovation, defines a science park as "an organisation managed by specialised professionals, whose main aim is to increase the wealth of its community by promoting the culture of innovation and the competitiveness of its associated businesses and knowledge-based institutions. To enable these goals to be met, a Science Park stimulates and manages

3712-469: Was circa €11.7 billion (central estimate). During the same period, STPs spent circa €3 billion on the professional business support and innovation services they either deliver or finance to assist both their tenants and other similar knowledge based businesses in their locality. Increasingly, the reasons why STPs are sound investments for public sector support are becoming better understood and articulated. The evidence base shows that better STPs are not simply

3776-486: Was established in 2005 to provide schools and districts in North America with many of the UK software products. It has been inactive since 2011. In 2008 RM purchased and integrated the US interactive classroom provider Computrac and sold it at a loss in 2011. RM Asia-Pacific started operations in 1997. A head office was opened in Perth, Australia in February 1999 after being awarded a contract for schools information systems by

3840-517: Was inaugurated on 17 April 2017 by Hrishikesh R Nair, the then CEO of Technopark, Infopark, and Cyberpark . Technopark offers multiple Internet Service Providers , including Reliance Infocomm , STPI , BSNL , Bhari , and VSNL . Leased-line fiber connectivity is available to all buildings on the campus, guaranteeing that connection breaks are a thing of the past. FLAG Telecom—a subsidiary of Reliance Infocomm —has its FALCON global cable system at Thiruvananthapuram, providing direct connectivity to

3904-623: Was incompatible with the support chips chosen by IBM for the IBM PC, RM's computer was not truly PC compatible but could run some PC software and Microsoft Windows up to 3.0 . RM introduced its AX model in 1986, using the Intel 80286 processor. A common use for the AX was as a fileserver, connected to PC-186 clients using MS-Net , Microsoft's network operating system of the time. This initially used network hardware based on Zilog Z-Net and later via Ethernet . PC-186 clients could be configured to boot via

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3968-401: Was laid by E K Nayanar , Chief Minister of Kerala, at a ceremony presided over by K R Gowri Amma , Minister for Industries. Technopark was formally dedicated to the nation by the then prime minister, P.V. Narasimha Rao , in November, 1995. Since then, Technopark has been growing steadily both in size and employee strength. Park Centre, Pamba, and Periyar were the only buildings constructed in

4032-675: Was launched in 1951 as a cooperative venture between Stanford University and the City of Palo Alto . Another early university research park was Research Triangle Park in North Carolina , which was launched in 1959. In 1969, Pierre Laffitte founded the Sophia Antipolis Science Park in France . Laffitte had travelled widely and developed a theory of "cross-fertilisation" where individuals could benefit mutually by

4096-478: Was sold as RM Net LM. The success of PC compatibility as a worldwide standard changed RM's focus from complete in-house design of circuit boards, peripherals and firmware to the assembly and integration of hardware components sourced predominantly from the Far East. The hardware within RM server and desktop PCs was no longer significantly different from mainstream PCs from other vendors. In the mid-90s RM released

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