Abbreviations
| AICTE | All India Council for Technical Education |
| AP | Andhra Pradesh |
| BPO | business process outsourcing |
| DOE | Department of Electronics, government of India |
| DRDO | Defense Research and Development Organisation |
| ELCOT | Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu |
| EOU | export-oriented unit |
| EPZ | export processing zone |
| ESC | Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council of India |
| FDI | foreign direct investment |
| FERA | Foreign Exchange Regulation Act |
| FSI | floor space index |
| HIID | Harvard International Institute for Development |
| HYSEA | Hyderabad Software Exporters Association |
| ICT | information and communication technology |
| IEG | Institute for Electronic Governance |
| IIIT | Indian/International Institute of Information Technology |
| IISc | Indian Institute of Science |
| IIT | Indian Institute of Technology |
| IPR | intellectual property regime |
| ISB | Indian School of Business |
| IT | information technology |
| ITES | information technology–enabled services |
| MNCs | multinational corporations |
| NASSCOM | National Association of Software and Service Companies |
| NeGAP | National e-Governance Action Plan |
| NISG | National Institute for Smart Government |
| R&D | Research and Development |
| SMEs | small and medium enterprises |
| STP | software technology park |
| STPI | Software Technology Parks of India |
| SW | software |
| TN | Tamil Nadu |