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- Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala told TechSparks 2026 that India can develop any technology, framing the constraint as risk-taker culture rather than technical capacity.
- Jhunjhunwala called for replacing exam-centric education with entrepreneurship and edge computing, and for consortia that pair scientists with startups to solve local challenges.
Why it matters: Coming from a senior academic at a flagship startup conference, the pitch reframes India's tech gap as a talent-pipeline problem: without exam-to-entrepreneurship reform and structured scientist-startup consortia, the country's stated ability to 'build any technology' risks staying theoretical rather than producing commercial risk-takers.
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