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Atal Incubation Centre — KUFOS

About AIC-KUFOS

India's premier incubation centre for ocean and marine technology startups — empowering the blue economy through innovation, mentorship, and research.

About Us

India’s first fisheries Atal
Incubation Centre

AIC-KUFOS is India’s First Fisheries Atal incubation centre hosted by the Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS) under the Atal Innovation Mission (AIM), NITI Aayog. The Centre supports innovators and startups in transforming ideas into technology-driven products and solutions for fisheries and allied sectors, fostering entrepreneurship, sustainability, and innovation towards a thriving Blue Economy.

📅 Est. 2026🐟 Blue Economy Focus☀️ NITI Ayog funded

Home of Innovation

KUFOS Campus, Panangad, Kochi

India's First Fisheries University

Our Purpose

Mission & Vision

Our Mission

To create an end-to-end ecosystem that identifies problems and ideas, supports proof-of-concept development, enables technology validation and intellectual property generation, facilitates incubation and investment, and accelerates commercialisation and scale-up of innovations for fisheries and allied sectors.

Our Vision

To establish AIC-KUFOS as a national and globally connected innovation and entrepreneurship hub for fisheries, aquaculture and the Blue Economy, accelerating the transformation of scientific knowledge, grassroots innovations and emerging technologies into scalable enterprises, sustainable livelihoods and market-driven solutions.

Our Leadership