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Kerala govt to launch Super Fab Lab in collaboration with MIT in Kochi

Fab Labs are fabrication laboratories offering digital fabrication and computation. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the new Fab Labs on January 25

R&D spend went up from 6 per cent of operating income in FY13 to 9 per cent of operating income in FY17. After that there has been a steady decline in the past two financial years
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Gireesh Babu Chennai
Kerala will be launching a mini and super fab lab, a larger version of the technical protogyping platform for design fabrication technology, in collaboration with  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The State government claims that this will be the world's first such facility to function outside of the US.
 
Fab Labs are fabrication laboratories offering digital fabrication and computation. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate the new Fab Labs on January 25.
 
The Super Fab Lab at Kerala Startup Mission's (KSUM) Integrated Startup Complex (ISC) in Kalamassery, Kochi, will have state-of-the-art machines worth more than Rs 7 crore

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