Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we work as one team with a common goal—to create 360° Value everywhere by embracing change. With our global network of over 100 innovation hubs around the world, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

Kumaraguru Centre for Industrial Research & Innovation (KC.IRI) is a Research and Innovation centre at KCT for Engineering Research and consulting for SMEs & MSMEs. KC.IRI is a dedicated, independent, focussed Research & Innovation Eco System in collaboration with Industries for promotion of industry-specific applied research, innovative projects / product and it also provides advanced training programs to cater to the industry needs. Our strategic partnerships with the industries and academia will help us to achieve our mission to become a leading research institution. KC.IRI will target the growth of industries to address their industrial challenges through Innovative Product Solutions to industries related to Agriculture, Textile, Automotive, Healthcare applications, Pumps, Food processing etc. The centre will also focus on areas of Assistive technologies, Green Buildings & Vehicles, Additive Layer Technology, Hybrid Forming, Smart Materials, Nano & Composite Materials, Energy Systems, Embedded Systems, UAV etc. through setting up industry-collaborated research centers.

Innovation/Startup fellowship program is a 20-week, full-semester course called ProtoSem during which students are nurtured & guided to develop core technical concepts and key engineering skills and are transformed into 'Innovation Engineers'. We work as a team with students from different engineering/technical/science streams, towards designing, developing and testing an innovative tech enabled solution to solve a real-world problem (the Minimum Usable Prototype to test the technical feasibility and the commercial viability of the product innovation) sponsored by the industry, government, or social sector etc.We solve real-world challenges using the tools enabled by hardware, software and computing technologies, and evolve as Graduate Innovation Engineers and fully rounded professionals with more balanced skills in the Innovation, Technology, and Engineering talent dimensions.Graduate Innovation Engineers are creative problem-solvers, capable of building deployable/usable prototypes, selecting and applying technology to create cost effective solutions, and are aware of the tools and techniques of managing the process of innovation to mitigate and reduce risks. They innovate and design solutions by setting and achieving metrics in customer development & discovery, value-proposition validation, market definition & sizing, customer acquisition, revenue model & competition analysis.