Global innovation frenzy
Business Standard|October 07, 2024
…can India match the pace?
AJIT BALAKRISH NAN
Global innovation frenzy
Flip through any academic journal, wade through an opinion piece on an online news site or its print cousin, or glance at a news headline and you see businesses claiming their innovative new product/service launch or governments proclaiming innovation-related investment or legislation. And you start wondering what all this frenzy about innovation is about.

When I query my business friends, they promptly reply that innovation is essential to help them differentiate their products or services from those of their competitors. When I query my friends involved in state- or national-level policy making, their prompt reply is that innovation is central to creating industries that drive economic growth and thus create jobs and grow gross domestic product (GDP). And come to think of it, the term "GDP", which in my college days was perceived by all of us as something that only academics chant about, in today's world appears to be as important even to the non-professional as India winning the world one-day cricket championship, or having an Indian girl being crowned as Miss World.

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