•   53 pc Kerala techies are from rural areas

•   Kerala has great talent pool

•   IT Mission initiative to support students

•   Yes@Kerala for ITES development

•   Kerala to support HR development

•   Harmony of advantages

•   SPEED - IT to give fillip to research

•   Model Finishing Schools to fine tune talents

•   State with highest literacy rate in the country

•   High density of Science & Technology manpower

•   Talent pool of English speaking personnel 

•   Annual intake of  over 25,000 engineering students each year

•   Employee attrition < 10%

Academic Institutions

•   Kerala is traditionally strong in academics

•   7 universities offering up to Doctoral studies; One S&T university, one Agricultural university

•   Over 84 engineering colleges; College of Engineering Trivandrum, more than 60 years old; Over 10 medical colleges; Over 100 Science colleges

•   Indian Institute of Management(IIM), National Institute of Technology(NIT),Indian Institute of Information Technology & Management- Kerala(IIITM-K)

•   Centres of Excellence- Indian Institute of Science Education & Research(IISER) and Indian Institute of Space Sciences & Technology (IIST)are coming up Trivandrum

 
R&D institutes

•   Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre – Over 6000 scientists and engineers, nerve centre of India’s space programs

•   National Institute of Interdisciplinary Science & Technology(NIST) under the CSIR

•   Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC)

•   Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology

•   CMFRI, CPCRI, KFRI, CWRDM, SCTIMS, TBGRI etc

•   Strong Research Centers of various universities