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News: India’s first Super Fab Lab was launched at the Integrated Startup Complex of the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM). It will function in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Facts:
About Fab Labs
- Fab Labs are fabrication laboratories offering digital fabrication and computation. The idea was conceived by inventor and scientist Professor Neil Gershenfeld.
- It seeks to enable entrepreneurs to turn their ideas into new products and prototypes by giving access to advanced digital manufacturing technology.
- Established in 2002, Vigyan Ashram in Pune, India was the first fab lab to be set up outside MIT.
Additional Information:
Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM): Founded in 2006, is the central agency of the Government of Kerala for entrepreneurship development and incubation activities in Kerala.
