Innovation Hub is intended to be a Startup Center of Excellence for all the Startup Ecosystem Enablers to develop an end-to-end Innovation and Entrepreneurial Startup Ecosystem in Uttar Pradesh by creating a roadmap from “Ideation-to-Commercialization”. Innovation Hub is embodied to make strategic interventions to develop a benchmark incubation support system in the state by connecting the students, innovators, entrepreneurs, academia, industry and society at large. The main objective of Innovation Hub is to inculcate the entrepreneurial spirit in the youth and drive them to be the Changemakers of the Society. The Innovation Hub will work on Hub and Spoke model and will provide the state-of-the-art infrastructure and world-class lab facilities to the innovation centers and to the students, startups and incubates across the state of Uttar Pradesh. It will focus on commercializing new technologies, prototype research and development, patent filing, and creating new jobs, thereby strengthening economy. This Innovation Hub is facilitated by Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Technical University with an advisory board of experienced and eminent industrialists and an executive committee of dedicated directors with active participation of faculty and support staff. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, Innovation Hub is instituted in Lucknow and it is a pulsating Incubation Center set-up authority spread across Uttar Pradesh in 15 Rajkiya Engineering Colleges (RECs) and established under the Department of Technical Education, Government of Uttar Pradesh. 15 Incubation Centers are being set-up in Center for Advanced Studies; AKTU, Lucknow, I.E.T., Lucknow; Faculty of Architecture & Planning, Lucknow; U.P. Institute of Design, Noida; Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology for Handicapped, Kanpur; KNIT Sultanpur; BIET, Jhansi; Uttar Pradesh Textile Technology Institute, Kanpur; REC Ambedkar Nagar, REC Azamgarh, REC Banda, REC Bijnor, REC Kannauj, REC Mainpuri, and REC Sonbhadra.