Dr R A Mashelkar (Ex-Director General of CSIR): "India has 3 advantages - Democracy, Diversity, Demography. India has 3 freedom, in 1947 the first freedom political freedom; Second was with Liberalization has brought down the cost of capital and freedom to do things in 1991; The third is technology freedom in 2007 with Nuclear deal. India also has been uneven innovator as only 3% work in organized Private sector/97% work for unorganized sector and India is a hesitant innovator especially because we are reluctant to face IP rights, etc. The big challenge for India is including those that are excluded those at the bottom of pyramid. IT among other things, especially when you have to deal with large number of people and huge distance. Solutions like TCS illiterate learning program that can make them read in 6 weeks and they have demonstrated that successfully in South Africa as well. Innovator sees what everyone sees but thinks what no one is thinking. Innovator doesn't know that it cannot be done. When you want to achieve something that was not achieved before you got to use methods that has been not used before. Engineering of the word Engineer will be done by Engineers themselves. I am delighted to be an engineer"