Technopark, Trivandrum

Technopark Trivandrum

Aerial view of Technopark Phase I campus in June 2014
Company type	Government owned
Industry	Information Technology Business Park
Genre	Infrastructure Service Provider
Founded	July 1990 Dedicated to nation in November 1995
Headquarters	Trivandrum, Kerala , India
Number of locations	Trivandrum, Kollam
Area served	12.72 Million sq.ft.
Key people	Chief Minister of Kerala, Chairman Dr. Rathan.U. Kelkar IAS, Principal Secretary (Electronics & IT) Col Sanjeev Nair (Retd), CEO
Owner	Government of Kerala
Number of employees	75,000
Website	Technopark.in

Technopark is a technology park in Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala, India. Established on 28 July 1990 by the Government of Kerala, under chief minister E K Nayanar, However, the government was unable to commence building. The next council of ministers, led by Mr. K Karunakaran, took the initiative to begin construction and inaugurated the first building. The largest information technology (IT) park in Asia in terms of developed area.^[1] Technopark is the first greenest IT Park of India.

Technopark has 12.72 million sq ft (1.182 million m²) of built-up area, and is home to over 490 companies, employing more than 75,000 professionals.

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, substantially contributed to this growth. During the global financial crisis of 2007–2010, the park saw a period of reduced growth in 2009–10, when exports were only 2.8% more than the previous year.^[2][3] During the 2016-17 financial year, the park recorded IT exports of Rs. 5,000 crores.^[4]

Technopark is owned and administered by the Government of Kerala and is headed by a chief executive officer. In addition to this, it has a governing council and a Project Implementation Board, both of which include top officials of the government.^[5] Administrative offices, including that of the CEO, are housed in the Park Centre building. Technopark also hosts a Technology Business Incubation Cell under Kerala Startup Mission.

Technopark houses 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 and computer-aided design software development, IT Enabled Services (ITES), process re-engineering, animation, and e-business.