Netherlands-based navigation and location-based products and services company, TomTom, launched a global innovation hub in Pune, 90 miles west of Mumbai. It will be open to all India-based employees to upgrade their skills, innovate and think like entrepreneurs, reports Economic Times.
Barbara Belpaire, general manager at TomTom, India, who will also head this center, said, “The Innovation Hub reiterates TomTom’s approach of being an innovative company with a focus on nurturing the talent in India. This will give employees a platform to develop new software, technology, applications, services and futuristic consumer products in the wearables, mapmaking and data services space We aim to contribute to the Indian government’s ‘Make in India’ plan where our India team will contribute significantly to innovation globally.”
The hub has three broad sections — demonstration, experimentation and break areas where employees can tinker with TomTom products, as well as some other devices, by making modifications to the software or adding sensors for example. The Innovation Hub will explore tie ups with universities, institutes and other companies.
