Contact Details
Prof. Dhrubes Biswas
dhrubes@gmail.com
STEP, Opposite State Bank of India,
Indian Institute of Technology,
Kharagpur - 721302
 
Phone:
03222-281091
STEP IIT, Kharagpur
 

Established in 1986, STEP –IIT KGP has incubated 213 companies till date. This STEP has a broad area of focus, in the areas of analog and mixed-signal design, digital design, verification & test, behavioral modeling and architectural exploration, wireless and RFIC, power management circuits, low power design and test, MEMS and nano-electronics, biomedical, telecommunication and automotive applications, next generation integrated devices.

STEP IIT KGP, affiliated with IIT Kharagpur, operates with the motive of accelerating the development taking place in the local economies by helping start-ups achieve sustained profitable growth through providing them access to funds and steering them operationally and strategically to suit their needs. Through its infrastructure, access to funding, provision of value added services and close ties and partnerships with other corporate organizations, STEP successfully provides its entrepreneurs all the assistance they need to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship to help them grow into bigger companies. The development of a supportive and stimulating environment for innovative hi-tech entrepreneurship is encouraged by IIT Kharagpur.

STEP-IIT Kharagpur has two premises - one inside the IIT Campus and the other at Gopali, a village 5 Km away from the IIT Campus. More than 100 acres of land has been provided to STEP for promotion rural entrepreneurship based activities by Government of West Bengal. Most of the agricultural based rural entrepreneurship activities take place at STEP –Gopali. STEP-Gopali strives to be the focal point for efforts to stimulate and support private and public (economically backward) entrepreneurship development in communities through rural based entrepreneurship in and around the entire eastern region of the country. By supporting economically backward entrepreneurs and evaluating as well as facilitating shared learning for them, the center works to encourage entrepreneurship development as an effective route to building a prosperous, dynamic, and sustainable rural economy. The distinguished professors of IIT-KGP give the mentorship required to the entrepreneurs with the assistance of students of IIT who in turn get rich experience in dealing with real rural environment. The STEP has also taken on itself the responsibility of creating an entrepreneurial culture in and around IIT-KGP campus amongst the students and faculty.