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STPI units clocked over Rs. 3 lakh crore exports in 2013.

To position India as a global hub for ESDM, STPI launched EP, 1st of its kind incubator. STPI in association with Govt. of Karnataka also set up SMART Lab in Bengaluru to test electronic hardware.

To safeguard Indian standards & practices for manufacturers in Electronics & IT products, STPI was also entrusted with the CRS.

Furthermore, to encourage innovation in multimedia, animation & gaming, STPI set up IMAGE incubation centre in Hyderabad.

STPI set a gold standard for IT industry.

In 20 years, STPI grew from 3 to 51 centres pan India with 44 centres in Tier-II/III cities, enabling the dispersion of IT industry. 2 million direct employment was registered in IT/ITeS sector with 75% of the total employment was provided by STPI units.

STPI units doubled the exports in just 3 years with over Rs. 2 lakh crore exports in 2009. In a historic first, STPI provisioned 1 Gbps bandwidth to customers across the country.

STPI replicated the STP model in Bhutan by helping them set up IT Park to boost software exports and expand tech entrepreneurship in that country.

STPI provided PMC services for identifying the right technology for the National E-governance Plan, as requested by the National Institute for Smart Governance (NISG).

STPI helped Laos to establish their National Data Centre.

1 million employed directly in IT/ITeS sector with 75% employment from STPI units. Bengaluru was identified as a startup-focused community and Orchid Techscape was created to encourage the startups to own the Intellectual Property within India and strengthen the startup ecosystem.

STPI took the Commercial Taxes Network Project that involved networking of nearly 93 branches of Department of Commercial Taxes, Govt. of Karnataka. STPI Bengaluru also managed the VSAT Hub operations as part of the project.

In 2004, India announced itself online via .in domain. STPI acted as a backbone for implementing .in Internet Domain Name Policy that resulted in 75,000 domain registrations in the very 1st week of its opening to the public.

STPI took an ambitious consultancy project called Khajane NET to interconnect all the treasuries in Govt. of Karnataka on a central platform, helping achieve complete transparency & control over transactions.

Europe Star teleport facility, located in STPI, Bengaluru commenced for monitoring downlink signals covering ISN region (India/Nepal/Srilanka) through CSME (Communication System & Monitoring Equipment) facility based out of Toulouse, France.

STPI-USA business support centre "Infotech" was established with 337 beneficiaries. In a matter of just 2 years, STPI more than doubled the number of centres from 15 in 2000 to 35 in 2002.

The world started seeing STPI as a great example whilst replicating the STP model. STPI collaborated with Mauritius to execute the “Ebene Cyber City Project” and with UNESCO to replicate STP model in Nepal.