Global innovation frenzy: Can India match the pace of tech growth?

India also has its share of both large tech companies and large national laboratories, but why is it that these don't seem to be at the forefront of any innovation news headlines?

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