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India must now become world’s innovation engine, says Jyotiraditya Scindia
The Political and Business Daily
|July 11, 2025
IT’S time that India moves from being the world’s back office to becoming its innovation engine, said Union Minister of Communications Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Thursday, while inaugurating the VTU-VRIF-TCOE Hub and Spoke of Excellence in Bengaluru.
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The Centre of Excellence (CoE) ~- a strategic partnership between Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), the Visvesvaraya Research and Innovation Foundation (VRIF), and Telecom Centres of Excellence (TCOE) India -- aims to establish a state-of-the-art innovation ecosystem.
The CoE will focus on emerging domains including 5G/6G communications, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), quantum computing, healthcare, and other frontier technologies.
This story is from the July 11, 2025 edition of The Political and Business Daily.
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