Asian School Of Business started operations from the Padbhanamam building Technopark in Kerala.
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Subramaniam Ramadorai former CEO of Tata Consultancy Services and currently Advisor to Prime Minister of India in the National Council on Skill Development, Government of India; Professor Samuel Paul, former Director, IIM Ahmedabad and Advisor to the World Bank, Professor Prakash Apte, former Director Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; Mr. Arun Kumar, Board Member, KPMG Mr. George M. Thomas, Patron, ASB; Mr. Vijaya Raghavan, Founder-CEO, Technopark.
It is located at Kazhakoottam, which gained in significance because of proximity to Technopark,Sainik School,Kinfra Film and Video Park,Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, DCSMAT media school, PRASAD film lab, Vismayas Max.
Once Technocity's land acquisition is complete, Technopark will have an extent of close to 850 acres (3.5 km².), making it one of India's largest IT satellite townships, in geographic area, comparable to that of projects like the Mahindra World City in Chennai.
In 2007, the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, Sergei Ivanov, visited the Ufa State Aviation Technical University to tour an educational "Technopark" stocked with sophisticated equipment.
In Jan 2012, MobME tied up with The National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Board (NSTEDB), The Department of Science and Technology and Technopark, Trivandrum to set up India's first Public–private partnership telecom Business incubator named 'Startup Village' at Kerala Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Park in Kalamassery.
Aside from the technopark, there are plans to develop the Wawa fishing port as an ecotourism center, which would be patterned after Pier 39 in San Francisco.
The promoters of Startup Village are Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, Technopark, Trivandrum and MobME Wireless.