India Inc’s R&D push faces a demand problem
Indian companies are stepping up innovation spending, but lack of validation, policy support and assured demand slow commercial adoption.

Indian companies are stepping up innovation spending, but lack of validation, policy support and assured demand slow commercial adoption.
The bottleneck is not invention but adoption: new technologies often struggle to find buyers without policy backing, institutional trust or global precedent, leaving companies with rising R&D inv…
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