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Technopark Kerala, located at Thiruvananthapuram (formerly Trivandrum), India, is India's first and largest industrial park dedicated to electronics, software, and other Information Technology (IT) ventures. Started in 1990, the park currently has 3.2 million square feet (310,000 square meters) of built-up space. The park is home to over 110 companies, which employ more than 15,000 professionals. The companies include one CMMI level 5 and PCMM level 5 company, four CMM Level 5, two CMM Level 3 and several ISO 9001 certified companies. Technopark is promoted by the Government of Kerala, with a mandate to promote entrepreneurship and employment in the region. The policy of economic liberalisation initiated by the Government of India in 1991 and the rapid growth of the global software industry during the 1990s has substantially contributed to the growth of Technopark. Over 70% of Kerala's IT exports are from Technopark.
The units in the park include domestic firms, joint ventures and subsidiaries of foreign companies engaged in a wide variety of activities which include embedded software development, smart card technology, enterprise resource planning (ERP), process control software design, engineering & computer-aided design software development, IT Enabled Services (ITES), process re-engineering, animation and e-business. (more...)