By The Hindu Bureau
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Andhra Pradesh MedTech Zone (AMTZ) has launched Innovation Passport — a unique single-access gateway to turn healthcare ideas into impactful market-ready solutions. The i-Passport gives startups and individual innovators seamless entry into the country’s most advanced healthcare manufacturing and R&D facilities, eliminating the usual barriers that slow down innovation.
Through the i-Passport, startups gain access to AMTZ’s full ecosystem, including plug-and-play facilities at the Visakhapatnam campus for any duration, world-class testing centres, fabrication labs, and regulatory resources. It also connects innovators to partner incubators and industry networks for mentorship, collaborations, and funding opportunities — while enabling them to fast-track validation, prototyping and manufacturing in one location.
Principal Scientific Advisor, Government of India, Ajay Kumar Sood during his recent visit to AMTZ and other S&T clusters, introduced and released the i-Passport. The i-Passport already has 75 incubators onboard, linking over 1,000 startups across India to its facilities. The programme is now aiming to expand to over 200 incubators, offering unprecedented access to entrepreneurs, researchers, and healthcare innovators.
“The Innovation Passport is not just about giving access to infrastructure — it’s about creating an end-to-end support system that reduces time to market, cuts costs, and helps Indian startups compete globally,” MD & founder CEO of AMTZ Jitendra Sharma said.
