Contact Details
Mr. Suresh Bhat
directorstep@hotmail.com
NITK STEP,
National Institute of Technology,
P.O. Srinivasnagar, Surathkal
Karnataka - 575025
 
Phone:
0824-2477590
Science & Technology Entrepreneurs Park (NITK-STEP), Suratkhal
 

In existence for more than 14 years, NITK STEP has a focus on incubating IT, Engineering Design and Multi-technology integration ventures.  This STEP has graduated 23 firms which have created jobs for more than 1200 individuals while generating revenues worth Rs 20 Cr (Rupees 200 million)

National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, the institution which hosts NITK STEP, is a residential Engineering college. The Institute is located amid 300 acres of sylvan surroundings on the east and sun-kissed sands of the Arabian Sea to the west. 22 kilometers North of Mangalore City along the Kanyakumari-Mumbai National Highway 17, NITK is easily accessible from all parts of the country. There are a total of one thousand four hundred (1400) U.G. students, three hundred and ten (310) P.G. students and nearly two hundred girls staying in the various hostel blocks of NITK.

NITK-STEP is a registered society formed in 1994 as per the Karnataka State Societies Registration Act, 1960. Since inception it has trained about 4,300 persons including men and women in different fields through entrepreneurship development programmes, skill development programmes and technology-based entrepreneurship development programmes. Many participants have set up their own micro and small scale industrial units and service providing units. The STEP provides business incubation services to those who come forward to start their own units. Business incubation services cover infrastructure support, support in product development, assisting in tie-up with funding agencies, training and the like.

NITK STEP is well known in the region amongst MSMEs and large-scale firms from the Industry, also among Chamber of commerce, technology institutions, innovators, women body associations, fishermen community, banking institutions and government bodies. The STEP is also associated with other social welfare associations like district industry center, handloom and handicraft segment, jewelry segment, agriculturists and prominent associations involved in community welfare development activities.