Hyderabad: Telangana’s innovation ecosystem, T-Hub announced May 12 a collaboration with Collins Aerospace, a leader in the aerospace and defence industry to foster technology innovation with Deep Tech small-to medium-sized enterprises in aerospace industry.
The collaboration is part of the Collins initiative, said T-Hub in a press release. Through this initiative, world-class startups and scaleups will benefit from funding and collaboration opportunities with Collins Aerospace and T-Hub’s expertise as the world’s largest innovation campus to drive the project’s objective.
T-Hub has been named the inaugural Activation Site, a designation given annually by the programme for a leading global startup accelerator to support outreach and engagement within a targeted ecosystem, as part of the collaboration. The goal is to create and field new products and services by combining Collins’ expertise with the innovative solutions of startups.
T-Hub with expertise in the four open collaboration opportunities: Extravehicular Space Mobility, High-Performance Batteries, Autonomy for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), and Composites Recycling will assist in outreach to top global startups and scaleups. Shortlisted companies will be invited to a Collaboration Day with programme leadership from Collins, which could result in funding to execute a rapid proof-of-concept project with one of the Collins Aerospace programme teams.
