C Shivakumar
Chennai:
Four years
since the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) department came out with Rs
15 crore incentives for developing information technology cluster in the state,
it has yet to find any takers.
S Sivagnanam,
additional industrial advisor of MSME Development Institute, told Express on
the sidelines of Confederation of Indian Industry session on ‘Legitimate and
Competitive tools for Industry to Compete and Grow in the Globalised Business
Scenario: Information Technology and Intellectual Property Rights’ at IIT
Research Park that for the last five years MSME department has yet to find IT entrepreneurs
volunteering to set up a IT cluster.
“It was not
that we did not get people. There were a bunch of 20 people who came forward
but then they suddenly vanished in the thin air before anything could materialize,”
said Sivagnanam.
He also said
the MSME department held three awareness programmes but it failed to elicit any
response from the IT entrepreneurs.
As per the
guidelines, 20 individuals are required along with a legal entity for the special
purpose vehicle.
Sivagnanam
blamed the small scale IT entrepreneurs for not being well organized. He also
said that most of them are not aware of government scheme or are not willing to
come together to start a venture.
Earlier
during the session, experts highlighted the need for educating people on the
importance of IPR in developing countries and to understand how intellectual
property rights are intertwined with socio-economic prosperity.
This comes
in the wake of Union government taking initiatives by amending the IPR laws to
comply with international obligations.
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