{"id":254670,"date":"2023-08-03T21:24:04","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T15:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=254670"},"modified":"2023-08-29T18:20:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T12:50:58","slug":"deep-tech-startups-taking-brave-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/deep-tech-startups-taking-brave-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep tech startups taking brave risks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>&#8211; The post is based on the article <strong>\u201cDeep tech startups taking brave risks\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>\u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on <strong>3rd August 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong>GS3- Indian economy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance:<\/strong> Issues related to manufacturing sector<\/p>\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>&#8211; The article explains the progress on startups and deep tech startups in India.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the progress of India in the area of startups?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In the past decade, the Great Indian Startup Boom has generated a t<strong>hriving entrepreneurial ecosystem<\/strong> in India. It is led by<strong> young entrepreneurs<\/strong> and supported by the government&#8217;s Startup India initiative.<\/p>\n<p>This phenomenon extends beyond <strong>metropolitan cities<\/strong>. <strong>Entrepreneurs from suburban and rural areas<\/strong> are adopting it.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, the government recognizes <strong>over one lakh startups<\/strong>. Nearly half of them are originating from <strong>Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>How deep tech startups are making significant progress in India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The Startup movement has evolved beyond <strong>consumer Internet and e-commerce<\/strong>. It has now expanded to <strong>deep technology domains<\/strong> like space and remote sensing, artificial intelligence, robotics, biotechnology, drones, defense, telecommunications, semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IIT Madras&#8217;s Research Park<\/strong>, has incubated over <strong>200 deep tech companies <\/strong>valued at more than \u20b950,000 crore. It includes those in space and aviation; C-CAMP, and the National Chemical Laboratory&#8217;s Venture Centre.<\/p>\n<p>It demonstrates how science from<strong> publicly-funded institutions<\/strong> can be made accessible to citizens and consumers through startups.<\/p>\n<p>The industry has shown a clear inclination towards investing in<strong> deep-tech startups<\/strong> and acquiring well-established scaled technologies.<\/p>\n<p>This trend is supported by the acquisition of <strong>deep tech startups<\/strong> by prominent <strong>Indian legacy corporations<\/strong>. For instance, the Tatas acquired Saankhya and Tejas Networks, Reliance acquired Faradion, and Hero Motors purchased equity in Ather Motors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Way forward<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The government should support the <strong>second phase of entrepreneurship, a Startup India 2.0<\/strong>. This support must come through two routes-<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There should be a significant increase in the <strong>availability of risk capital<\/strong> for deep tech startups. The government should prioritize these sectors and allocate more resources to the existing <strong>SIDBI Fund of Funds. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The industry should redirect and enhance their <strong>research funds<\/strong> to support the financing of deep tech startups.<\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>There is a need to facilitate the widespread adoption of <strong>domestically developed technologies <\/strong>through <strong>mass procurement<\/strong>. More c<strong>oordinated efforts<\/strong> across the entire government are required.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Industry players and industry bodies can contribute by promoting the <strong>adoption of locally-made technologies. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This can be achieved through c<strong>ollaborative efforts<\/strong> in incubators to co-create products and solutions, conducting <strong>rapid testing and certification processes<\/strong>, and providing support for <strong>large-scale procurement of innovative goods.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source&#8211; The post is based on the article \u201cDeep tech startups taking brave risks\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 3rd August 2023. Syllabus: GS3- Indian economy Relevance: Issues related to manufacturing sector News&#8211; The article explains the progress on startups and deep tech startups in India. What is the progress of India in the area&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/deep-tech-startups-taking-brave-risks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deep tech startups taking brave risks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,242],"class_list":["post-254670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-science-and-technology","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":2,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701190115},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}