Unlocking the Power of Open Innovation
HCLTech's Startup Ecosystem Innovation Platform & Program — better known as eSTiP™ — is our primary open innovation framework that dives into the startup ecosystem and initiates a diverse range of opportunities with startups and organizations within academia. The goal is to establish strategic pilots, NPIs (new product introductions), commercial partnerships and potential investments with our customers' global business lines.
Our Impact with eSTiP™
Startups
Venture capital collaborations
Strategic alliance partners
Academia connections
Employees within HCLTech
Our Areas of Expertise
We offer innovation services through our unique frameworks, platforms and ecosystems designed to enable our clients to implement strategies that provide a competitive edge.
Inspire
Our objective is to ensure our partners achieve business profitability by providing them with emerging tech research reports, consultancy services and the inspiration and advocacy to explore new ideas.
Ideate
We leverage design thinking in empowering our clients to adopt a systematic method of ideation that enhances understanding and provides greater clarity.
Pilot
Our services include designing prototypes, creating mockups, connecting with relevant ecosystems and organizing innovation days, all aimed at facilitating a closer connection between our clients and their target customers — ultimately enabling their continuous growth.
Meet our Strategic ecosystem partners
Innovation ecosystem partners
Insights and Thought Leadership
Discover the technology trends shaping 2024
In the HCLTech Trends 2024 report, we explore a range of 10 technology trends that are set to disrupt the year ahead. Some are currently in the hype stage, while others are firmly on their way toward mass adoption.
HCLTech and Business Finland to collaborate for digital innovation
HCLTech has entered into a memorandum of understanding with Business Finland to pursue innovation and growth in areas of generative AI, metaverse, space and quantum technologies.
SAP.iO Foundry Singapore and HCLTech Launch Intelligent Enterprise Program
Five international startups have been selected by a jury of experts from SAP and HCLTech to join a virtual startup program focused on the Intelligent Enterprise at SAP.iO Foundry Singapore.
Sports tech: The next big frontier
The ever-changing field of sports technology offers enjoyable experiences like sports analytics.
T-Hub, HCLTech to collaborate on Quantum Computing and Deep Tech
The partnership enables HCLTech to leverage T-Hub’s innovation expertise and ecosystem of start-ups, corporates and investors to accelerate our open innovation initiatives.
Testimonial
The HCLTech eSTiP™ has been designed to enable our clients to deliver the best value to their customers by implementing ideas that can positively impact their businesses. Testimonials speak volumes about the capabilities of eSTiP™.
Build value with eSTiP™
Unlock a world of innovation with our portal featuring a comprehensive dashboard, industry-ready use cases and access to technology trends.
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Use cases
Industry-ready use case access
Catalog
HCLTech Startup, academia and intrapreneur catalog access
Innovation Labs
Access to HCLTech Innovation Labs
Call for Innovation
Campaign management portal for ideathons and innovation calls
Business Head
Today’s new world poses a challenge for how businesses can move into the future, taking into account multiple factors and dimensions that stretch the limits of existing high-performance computing resources. As the next generation of technologies —like Quantum Computing — continues to mature and become commercially viable, we hope our continued engagement will bring insights into relevant startups, academia, business collaborators and other innovation ecosystem players.”
