Innovation Center, Delhi.
Criteria of selection Since India is a rapidly growing economy, there is a need to provide a safe haven for India’s young startups and innovators. Research & Development form an integral part of the economy and the technological culture of the country. As the world progresses towards the tertiary sector of the economy, increasingly complex and trans-disciplinary ideas emerge, one that individuals with one or two fields of profession may not resolve standing alone. Collaborating together to provide products and services with experts from multiple domains have resulted in reasonable success in the present times and is still the promising mode of growth. Typically, an innovation center differs from this R&D in the sense that it attempts to utilize existing and tested technology in a meaningful and efficient combination
AIM This facility will house R&D units of Indian firms along with Providing incubation facilities to students, entrepreneurs and upcoming start-up firms. This platform will serve as the knowledge hub in the National Capital region would further act as a catalyst in the proposed mechanism for academic industry interaction.
Objectives •The Objective is to create diverse spatial experiences and opportunities to satisfy the need of different kind of people, yet building should function as a single organism. Making the facility active and interactive yet maintain the privacy of individuals. • Architectural and built spaces plays a major role in making the space more interactive and collaborative. In the project, the focus will be on place making, rather than just allotting the spaces for each function. Understandings of how both
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