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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
TopicInnovation

Topic: Innovation

Indian R&D is lagging. Tata Motors is an exception within India Inc

In 2022-2023, Tata Motors spent 5.86% of its total sales on R&D—on par with global automotive leaders like Toyota and Ford and more than the combined R&D spending of 30 largest Indian companies.

Creativity is a crime in India. Let’s accept vegan ice cream as the only honest innovation

There’s something deliciously mordant about minister Piyush Goyal standing before India’s most successful non-conformists, only to scold them for conforming a little too successfully.

Students assess faculty, a startup is born every 3rd day. At IIT-Madras, revolution’s no dinner party

In 2023, the number of patents granted rose to 300 from 156 in 2022. More than 370 startups have emerged from its incubation cell since 2013, with market valuation of Rs 47,000 cr.

Roadmap for national science policy discussed at Delhi meet

Department of Science and Technology session focused on research and innovation, entrepreneurship, technology development, governance, and international cooperation.

Workshop highlights role of intellectual property in sustainable development

Organised by CSIR-NIScPR to mark World Intellectual Property Day, event focuses on sustainable development goals & IP as a career option for students

India ceding ground in biopharma innovation, manufacturing — AllianceBernstein’s open letter to PM

Analysts from AllianceBernstein point to four areas where India lags behind its Asian peers and underline that nation finds no mention in global healthcare innovation index.

Innovative Technology Behind Indigo Leakproof Emulsion: What Sets It Apart

Leakproof Emulsion from Indigo Paints stands out as a testament to innovation and excellence in the realm of home protection.

Chicken feather plastics, temple flower foam—IIT Kanpur is changing India’s startup scene

IIT-Kanpur's SIIC has been leading the innovation race. The incubation centre is connecting entrepreneurs and scientists to funders while providing infrastructural support.

Not just sailors, Navy’s new fire suit could help soldiers with stealth & save pilots from burns

Currently, Navy uses imported suits weighing over 18 kg while this innovation weighs only about 1.8 kg. The cost of this suit is also much less

‘Social justice venture lab’, ‘Shark Tank’ style TV show — what Tamil Nadu’s new start-up policy offers

State's revamped 'Startup & Innovation Policy' aims to make Tamil Nadu one among the top 20 start-up ecosystems of the world in the next 10 years.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.