T-Hub, Suzuki Motor Corporation join forces to promote open-innovation between India and Japan

Hyderabad, Feb 13 (KNN) T-Hub, which leads India’s innovation ecosystem on Monday announced its partnership with Suzuki Motor Corporation (SMC), a leading corporation in the automobile sector to accelerate the growth of the Indian startup ecosystem. 

With this collaborative partnership, T-Hub and SMC aims to provide mentoring and support Indian entrepreneurs to access Japan’s ecosystem.

Suzuki Innovation Center (SIC), which is an open innovation platform, will provide growth opportunities to T-Hub incubated startups.

In addition, SIC provides an open platform for new connections and innovation between India and Japan among academia, industries, and startups.

Entrepreneurs will get to engage and innovate with universities and industries from India as well as Japan in domains of sustainability, rural development, supply chain, agritech, and mobility.

T-Hub through its robust innovation ecosystem will help SIC to gain exposure to a variety of innovative solutions from startups and help them boost their experiences and expertise in the innovation ecosystem.

Both the parties will collaborate on events, leadership opportunities, workshops, and mentoring to bridge the gap between the Japan and Indian startup ecosystem.

MSR (Mahankali Srinivas Rao), CEO of T-Hub, said, “Through our partnership with Suzuki Motor Corporation, we are aiming to address broad challenges on and beyond mobility, in India and Japan, on top of the synergistic combination of technology and design.”

“The partnership will empower T-Hub entrepreneurs to scale globally enduring homegrown technology startups with access to mentorship, and guidance from Suzuki Innovation Centre,” he added.

The MoU was signed in the presence of Hideaki Domichi, Former ambassador Japan to India, and Director, Suzuki Motor Corporation, Kinji Saito, Director and Senior Managing Officer, Global Automobile Marketing, Suzuki Motor Corporation, Vipul Jindal, Execution Head, Suzuki Innovation Center, Srinivas Rao Mahankali, Chief Executive Officer, T-Hub, Prathyusha Koneti, Head – Corporate Innovation, T-Hub

Spokesperson, Suzuki Motor Corporation said, “Our partnership with T-Hub will synergize the startup ecosystem between India and Japan. Suzuki`s latest initiative, ‘Suzuki Innovation Center (SIC)’ will play an instrumental role in promoting open-innovation with startups along with support of partners like T-Hub,” said Kinji Saito, Director and Senior Managing Officer Global Automobile Marketing, Suzuki Motor Corporation.

This one-year agreement will act as a catalyst revolutionizing open innovation and creating global avenues for the Indian Startup ecosystem.

In addition, this will enable T-hub startups to access various benefits such as-validating their solutions, building POC (Proof-of-Concept), funding opportunities and access to a vast pool of global networks.  (KNN Bureau)