UK India Business Council and T-Works Partner to Strengthen UK–India Innovation and Manufacturing Collaboration

Hyderabad, 21 April 2026: The UK India Business Council (UKIBC) and T-Works Foundation, India’s largest manufacturing innovation incubation centre, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to foster deeper collaboration between the UK and India across innovation, manufacturing, and technology-led sectors.

T-Works Center of Innovation is a leading Manufacturing Innovation Incubation Cell for industries & promoting Startup & MSME Innovation through being India's largest prototyping centre, Government of Telangana works to encourage Startups and MSMEs in various sectors such as Electronics, Aerospace, Defence, Agriculture, Health, Environment and Textiles.

This strategic partnership brings together UKIBC’s expertise in policy advocacy, market entry, and bilateral trade facilitation with T-Works’ advanced prototyping infrastructure and manufacturing ecosystem. The collaboration aims to create a seamless pathway for UK companies to ideate, prototype, and scale products within India’s rapidly evolving manufacturing landscape. Through this MoU, UK businesses will gain access to T-Works’ state-of-the-art facilities and technical capabilities, enabling them to test, validate, and manufacture products locally.

At the same time, T Works and its ecosystem of startups and MSMEs will benefit from UKIBC’s extensive network of global businesses, investors, and policy stakeholders, opening avenues for international collaboration and market expansion.

Dr. Kishore Jayaraman, Group CEO, UK India Business Council, said: "This partnership with T-Works creates a powerful bridge between UK innovation and India’s manufacturing capabilities. It enables UK businesses to move beyond market entry towards co development and scalable production, while strengthening the broader UK–India innovation ecosystem."

Joginder Tanikella, CEO, T-Works Foundation, said: "At T-Works, our mission is to enable innovators to transform ideas/concepts from lab to market into tangible manufacturable products. Our partnership with UKIBC strengthens that mission by creating a practical bridge between UK innovation and India’s growing manufacturing innovation ecosystem. Together, we can support UK companies in bringing Industry Innovation by developing minimum viable product, validating, and localizing solutions in India, while opening new avenues for international collaboration and market access for startups, MSMEs, and innovators within the T Works ecosystem."

About UKIBC is a policy advocacy and strategic consulting not-for-profit, with a mission to grow the UK-India trade and investment. To do that, we provide strategic and practical support to businesses and universities to explore, enter, and expand in both markets. We want to help more UK businesses to 1 uncover opportunities and succeed in India. Business looking at the India needs to develop a strategy based on factual market insights, and then implement that strategy.

The UK India Business Council has the knowledge, networks, and people to help do this. UK-India collaboration creates prosperity and jobs in both countries, and UK and Indian business have ideas, technology, services and products which improve lives. We work closely with the UK and Indian governments, the devolved administrations, England’s city regions, and State governments across India. We believe a strong UK-India economic partnership is a force for positive change globally.