The Technopark Technology Business Incubation Centre (T-TBIC) is setting up a knowledge network and industry centre (KNIC) with a professed aim of bridging the gap between industry and academia.

A joint venture with leading industry bodies, the initiative will be kick started in engineering colleges in South India, an official spokesman said.

The KNIC will have all necessary facilities to mentor and transform students with specialisation in various domains through real-time videoconferencing and smart classrooms.

The students will thus directly get mentored by industry experts to facilitate real exposure to industry processes.