National Initiative for Developing and Harnessing Innovations (NIDHI) is an umbrella programme conceived and developed by the Innovation & Entrepreneurship division, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, supporting Technology Business Incubators for nurturing ideas and innovations (knowledge-based and technology-driven) into successful startups by utilizing expertise and infrastructure available with the host institution.

KLE CTIE was recognised as NIDHI- TBI by Department of Science and Technology , Government of India in 2015 – Focuses on providing end-to-end support to facilitate development ,  maturation and commercialization of technologies .