India is a leading source country for students wishing to study abroad. But it is now time to build a robust education ecosystem within the country, which will attract quality talent from abroad and catalyse growth in the present knowledge era. Over a million Indian students pursued education abroad in...
C S Murali, Chairman, Entrepreneurship Cell, Society for Innovation and Development, IISc Bangalore, discusses how the institute’s STEM incubation cell handholds startups towards successful commercialisation of their innovations. He is optimistic that with the improvement in business climate and growing domestic market, India’s innovation ecosystem is set for better days...
India has an expected business potential of US$ 100 billion in the engineering R&D sector in the coming years, which could create additional employment for 1-1.25 million people. In order to capitalise, India needs to build its expertise in digital technology and establish its credentials as a destination for software...
Kapil Malhotra, Senior Vice President – Marketing, with Gujarat Fluorochemicals Ltd, is confident of market revival post-COVID for fluoropolymers across end-use segments including automotive, healthcare, electronics, construction and industrial processing. Moreover, the growing use of fluoropolymers in newer applications such as waterproof clothing, dental ware etc. will only take this...
The government launched the Defence Acquisition Procedure (DAP) 2020 to replace the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP 2016) on September 29. The policy expressly aims for further ‘Self Reliance’ in defence and ensuring ‘Ease of Doing Business’, with emphasis on simplification, delegation, reduced timelines and making the process as industry friendly...
Tanaz Buhariwalla, Director, IDA Ireland, discusses Ireland’s key advantages as a business destination for Indian companies, including a business-friendly ecosystem, competitive costs, support for innovation and vital strategic location for companies targeting the US and EU market. She also explains why post-COVID, Indo-Ireland cooperation is more critical than ever before....
Amaresh Chakrabarti, Senior Professor and Chairman, Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), explains how the institute is creating innovator entrepreneurs and also enabling effective interface between students and Indian manufacturing SMEs to solve complex problems. He firmly believes that with the right ecosystem to scale...
Sameer Patil, Fellow, International Security Studies Programme at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations, believes that the import embargo on 101 items indicates confidence in the government that India has sufficient defence-industrial capacity to replace imports in these products. Since the Indian Navy is the most indigenized in terms...
Post-COVID-19, India needs to strengthen its pharma R&D ecosystem to tap into emerging drug development opportunities, particularly in the realm of infectious diseases. As the global R&D ecosystem moves towards a more collaborative approach and possibly accelerated new drug development cycles, India needs to reorient its pharma industry to become...
Sanjay Singh, Partner – Deal Advisory, Head of Lifesciences, KPMG in India, identifies new generics opportunities, established manufacturing ecosystem, growing penetration of health insurance and talent pool as some of the key growth drivers for the Indian pharmaceutical industry over the next decade. IBT: The government is planning to come...
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