The research project is part of the FP7 project funded by the European Union. The Copenhagen Business School is the lead partner in the project that intends to foster EU-India collaboration through providing businesses in both EU and India an opportunity to understand each others contexts and capabilities. The IIM-IISc team is responsible for the South-western region, covering firms in and around Bangalore. The project is designed to be undertaken in multiple phases: (a) a historic module that tracks the innovation by Indian ICT companies as reported by the technical and business media;(b) an expert vetting at the regional level, where experts fortify the data with their contextual understanding, checking the historical data for relevance, concurrence and validity; (c) a survey designed to measure the firms innovative potential and collaborative capacity;(d) in-depth interviews with to map the innovation trajectory of the region.