Mumbai: Ajay Kumar Sood, Principal Scientific Adviser to the Union authorities, on Saturday, inaugurated the two-day Bharat Innovates Deep-Tech Pre-Summit at IIT Bombay, highlighting the significance of deep-tech innovation to India’s technological management and world competitiveness.
Delivering his inaugural handle, Sood, who’s the chairperson of the Prime Minister’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC), highlighted the function of educational establishments, analysis ecosystems, and startups in advancing cutting-edge applied sciences.
The Bharat Innovates Deep-Tech Pre-Summit, an initiative of the Ministry of Education, serves as a precursor within the Bharat Innovates 2026 journey that culminates in India’s world innovation debut at Nice in France, in June 2026, as a part of the India-France Year of Innovation 2026, introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The landmark nationwide showcase of India’s most promising deep-technology ventures was inaugurated at ASPIRE – IIT Bombay Research Park Foundation on the IIT Bombay campus in Mumbai, an announcement mentioned.
Vineet Joshi, Department of Higher Education Secretary in Ministry of Education, mentioned that Bharat Innovates 2026 as a whole-of-government effort bringing collectively the Ministry of Education, the Department of Science and Technology, the Department of Biotechnology, the Space Department, and the Ministry of Defence on a single platform to exhibit India’s cutting-edge deep-tech capabilities to the world.
Emphasising that the initiative is as a lot about remodeling India’s schooling ecosystem as it’s about world showcasing.
Joshi famous that the National Education Policy, 2020, has already triggered a major shift from equating schooling with examination scores to recognising its true function as a significant contribution to society, with conviction in direction of realising the imaginative and prescient of ‘Viksit Bharat by 2047’.
He known as on traders and corporates to assist determine promising startups past the metros, reiterating that innovation is just not confined by geography.
Others current on the event included Abhay Karandikar, Department of Science and Technology Secretary; Okay. Radhakrishnan, IIT Bombay’s Board of Governors Chairperson; and Shireesh Kedare, IIT Bombay Director.
Radhakrishnan requested innovators and founders to work with conviction and nationwide function, and invited them to jot down a brand new historical past for India.
He known as innovators as ambassadors of India and inspired them to make India proud.
Karandikar mentioned that India is now the third-largest startup ecosystem on this planet with practically two lakh startups and round 125 unicorns — a outstanding rise from simply 24 unicorns in 2017–18.
More than 1,000 traders at the moment are energetic in India and practically Rs 70–80 billion in enterprise capital has flowed into Indian startups in recent times, he added.
Kedare described Bharat as a deep-tech ecosystem that rests on three pillars: the schooling system, strategic traders and company sector for market entry and real-world grounding that transforms know-how into affect.
He famous that greater than 3,000 startup functions have been acquired from throughout the nation, from which 137 of India’s most promising deep-tech startups have been chosen by a rigorous multi-stage analysis course of spanning 13 thematic areas.
The Bharat Innovates 2026 programme showcases improvements throughout 13 important know-how domains, together with Advanced Computing, Healthcare and MedTech, Space and Defence, Energy and Sustainability, Semiconductors, Biotechnology, Smart Cities and Mobility, Blue Economy, Next-Gen Communications, Agri and Food Technologies, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing and Industry 4.0, and Disaster Management.
(IANS)