{"id":939036,"date":"2025-06-17T08:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=939036"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T03:24:53","slug":"startups-need-industry-to-tell-them-what-problems-to-solve-arvind-kumar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/17\/startups-need-industry-to-tell-them-what-problems-to-solve-arvind-kumar\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups need industry to tell them what problems to solve: Arvind Kumar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous body under the ministry of electronics and IT, was initially set up to promote IT and IT-enabled services exports. Over time, its role has shifted significantly. Over the last three years, STPI has actively repositioned itself as a catalyst for startup growth, particularly in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. Director General Arvind Kumar, in a conversation with Ayanti Bera, speaks about how the organisation is enabling deep-tech innovation, what startups need from industry, and how market access remains a critical hurdle for young ventures. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), an autonomous body under the ministry of electronics and IT, was initially set up to promote IT and IT-enabled services exports. Over time, its role has shifted significantly. Over the last three years, STPI has actively repositioned itself as a catalyst for startup growth, particularly in tier 2 and tier 3 cities. Director General Arvind Kumar, in a conversation with Ayanti Bera, speaks about how the organisation is enabling deep-tech innovation, what startups need from industry, and how market access remains a critical hurdle for young ventures. Excerpts:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-939036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}