R&D Collaboration | IIT Madras Research Park

Bridging Industry and Academia To Drive Translational Research

At IITMRP, industry academia collaboration is fostered through a dynamic ecosystem that integrates IIT Madras faculty expertise, industry professionals, and state of the art infrastructure to drive innovation

Companies set up R&D centers, leveraging the proprietary Credit Point System to ensure vibrant collaboration by engaging in activities like joint research projects, student engagement and technology development with our Centres of Excellence, incubators and startups.

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Our Value Proposition

Translational Research

Bridging academia and industry, we facilitate translational research to convert cutting-edge ideas into market-ready solutions, accelerating product innovation and opening new revenue streams through collaborative projects

IP Creation

Our ecosystem fosters intellectual property creation through our collaborative projects, enabling joint IP development between IITM faculty, researchers, and industry partners for global impact

Employee Learning

Empower your employees with access to MS/MTech/PhD programs taught by over 600 globally acclaimed faculty across 20 departments situated inside the IIT Madras campus.

Modes of Engagement

When you establish an R&D centre within our ecosystem, we guide and consult your research needs and map them to the right collaborators — academia, centres of excellence (CoE) and startups — and ensure value is created through our Credit Point System

Working with faculty, students and research scholars can help further your foundational or translational research efforts, providing an external view of internal competence and can help analogically transfer solutions from other industries to address your problem statements.

Examples of Collaboration

Work with faculty through consultancy, sponsored projects or research grants

Hire or sponsor students, interns and research scholars to work on your projects

License existing technology at IITM

Equipped with state-of-the-art equipment, each centre brings together leading faculty to solve problems aligning with the most pressing challenges across industries. They can help you translate research into market-ready or deployable solutions.

Examples of Collaboration

Access sophisticated labs and equipment

Execute R&D projects and commercialize their outcomes

Participate in research consortiums led by a centre

Startups incubated in our ecosystem are actively tackling market gaps across multiple sectors. You can work closely with them to develop tailor-made solutions for your business needs.