An innovative India would be one that is technologically advanced while also improving the lives of all its citizens. Investment in research and development can help offset increases in social inequality and ease pressures created by rapid urbanisation. The widening productivity gap between agriculture and knowledge-intensive sectors threatens to worsen income inequality; encouraging India's research institutions and universities to focus on the needs of the poor, while helping small firms absorb new knowledge, can help counter this effect.

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