New Delhi, Jan 29 (IANS) India’s innovation ecosystem has shown strong and steady progress over the past few years, with the country climbing to 38th position in the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025 from 66th in 2019, according to the Economic Survey 2025-26 tabled in Parliament today by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday. The Survey highlights how government initiatives in manufacturing, research, startups and technology have helped India emerge as a growing global hub fo…
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Seoul, Jan 14 (IANS) Amid a recent supercycle in the chip industry led by an artificial intelligence (AI) boom, South Korean chipmakers are becoming vulnerable to non-practicing entities (NPEs) as Washington moves to strengthen patent protection, industry watchers said on Wednesday.NPEs, commonly known as “patent trolls,” generate profits by licensing or enforcing patents rather than producing goods, reports Yonhap news agency.Such concerns have emerged as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK hynix In…
Seoul, Dec 31 (IANS) The number of high-skilled workers in South Korea grew for the fourth consecutive year in 2024, with such jobs in the semiconductor sector increasing by the most, government data showed on Wednesday.The total number of industrial technology workers stood at 1.74 million as of end-2024, up 1.1 per cent from a year earlier, according to the data from the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Resources, reports Yonhap news agency.Industrial technology workers refer to high-skilled em…
New Delhi, Dec 27 (IANS) India has ramped up electronics production six-fold and is the second largest mobile manufacturing country in the world, Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday.In multiple posts on social media platform X, Vaishnaw said that the country has increased electronic exports eightfold over the past 11 years, mainly driven by policy support from the Production Linked Incentive Scheme.The PLI scheme for Large Scale Electronics …