The independent campus for CTIF, which is expected to be operational in another seven years, is expected to house 1,100 people. It is expected to house 200 students each for masters and PhD programmes, along with 100 faculty and 100 non-teaching members. The campus is also expected to have 500 engineers.  

"Funds will be provided by the companies sending their employees for research activities at the campus, from European Commission as well as from the West Bengal government," informed Prasad.  

As of now, the new CTIF centre at CU is expected to benefit several information technology (IT) companies as well, in terms of skilled manpower capable of bringing about innovations which could be Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protected.  

For instance, WIP Labs, which is a premier innovation company, will be able to find ready talent at the CTIF who could join its laboratory at Taratola in Kolkata, operational from July this year.  

WIP Labs is into possessing wireless networking as the core competence in 3G, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and future generation wireless technologies with the focus to become the world leader in 4G. The objective of WIP Labs is to generate Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs), lead standardization, and bring products to commercialization.  

According to Rajeev Prasad, director of WIP Labs, "Once our laboratory is functional in Kolkata, we will make products on the wireless innovation platform, solutions for network planning, mobile applications, among other services and products. We will start with around 20 employees in July this year."  

Added Das, "With CTIF, a centre to churn out quality researchers who could bring about innovations that could be commercialised, is sure to attract several quality industries and companies to West Bengal. The government has also decided that its thrust areas would be chip designing industries, animation and multimedia companies and wireless companies."