Little to innovate in IT, the future is in Aerospace and India Inc. is 100 miles behind
Harish Baliga
Aug. 3, 2007

Indians are ''driving innovation'' in giants like IBM, Microsoft, the fact is the future growth and innovation is in Aerospace and biomedical engineering - not information technologies.

It is true that Indian technologists are gradually making a name for themselves as they “drive innovation” in the global research and technology divisions of information technology (IT) giants like IBM, HP, Microsoft, and Motorola.

Unfortunately Indian politicians and planners are ignorant about the future. America and Europe are posed to make big leaps in Aerospace Engineering. India Inc. is still counting dollars serving low end contracts from US and Europe that Americans and Europeans do not want to perform themselves.

Very few Indian techies are making headway in Aerospace sector. While all the focus in India is to perform contractual IT work based on requirements from US and European clients, little R&D is performed in Mechanical and Aerospace engineering.

India Inc. is at least 100 miles behind in Aerospace sector and perhaps 50 miles behind in Biomedical Engineering.

Trader dominated Indian oligarchs control the India Inc. No wonder the approach is trading right from the beginning. Simply put India Inc, is busy hiring educated and talented Indians cheap and selling them to western companies for a profit - not much different form slave trading hundreds of years back.

While the Indian Space Research Organization is making some progress, India Inc, is nowhere. All that India Inc. could do in aerospace is get Ratan Tata in F18 - courtesy to Boeing who wants to sell to India and make some profit.

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Harish Baliga
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