India cannot become a technology power without R&D power
Every year, National Technology Day celebrates India’s scientific capability and technological ambition. It commemorates a defining moment in India’s strategic history and reminds us that nations rise not merely through economic expansion, but through their ability to innovate, invent, and industrialise at scale.
India today stands at an important inflection point. We are among the world’s fastest-growing major economies, a leading digital public infrastructure success story, and an emerging force in sectors such as semiconductors, drones, defence technology, AI, space, and electronics manufacturing. Yet beneath this momentum lies a structural question India can no longer postpone: can a country truly become a global technology power without making large-scale investments in research and development?
