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Beyond GDP: Why India needs an Innovation-Led Development State

Tarak Dhurjati Mar 29, 2026 For decades, economic strategy—both globally and in India—has revolved around a single number: GDP. Governments track it obsessively, global institutions forecast it with precision, and policy frameworks are built around nudging it upward. The IMF and World Bank project global growth at around 3.3% for 2026, supported by incremental policy adjustments and technological offsets. Yet, despite increasingly sophisticated models, these forecasts repeatedly miss the mark....

Beyond GDP: Why India needs an Innovation-Led Development State Tarak Dhurjati Mar 29, 2026 For decades, economic strategy—both globally and in India—has revolved around a single number: GDP. Governments track it obsessively, global institutions forecast it wit…

AI is transforming Plant Breeding: Accelerating Breeding Cycles and Delivering Climate-Resilient Varieties for the Seed Industry

The global seed industry is operating under unprecedented pressure. Climate volatility, escalating biotic and abiotic stresses, rising R&D costs, and shortening commercial product lifecycles are forcing breeders to deliver superior varieties faster than ever before. Traditional plant breeding—while scientifically robust—was never designed for this pace of change. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is now emerging as a foundational capability that is reshaping plant breeding from an empirical, multi-season process into a predictive, data-driven discipline....

AI is transforming Plant Breeding: Accelerating Breeding Cycles and Delivering Climate-Resilient Varieties for the Seed Industry The global seed industry is operating under unprecedented pressure. Climate volatility, escalating biotic and abiotic stresses, rising R&D costs, and shortening commercial product lifecycles ar…

Hallucination in AI — risks and mitigation for R&D, scientific research, product development and healthcare

AI hallucination is when a generative model outputs plausible-looking but incorrect or fabricated information. In R&D, scientific publishing, product development and healthcare, hallucinations can cause wasted effort, irreproducible science, regulatory non-compliance, clinical harm and reputational/legal exposure. Mitigation requires engineering measures (grounding, retrieval, uncertainty estimation), governance (validation, provenance, human-in-the-loop), and domain-specific controls (regulatory risk assessments, clinical validation, audit trails). Below I explain causes, give examples, and provide a practical mitigation checklist you can apply immediately....

Hallucination in AI — risks and mitigation for R&D, scientific research, product development and healthcare AI hallucination is when a generative model outputs plausible-looking but incorrect or fabricated information. In R&D, scientific publishing, product development and healthcare, hallucinations …

Rewriting crop protection: using insect “behavioral modification” instead of hazardous chemistry

Global success stories and an India policy pathway to scale pheromones and semiochemicals—especially via area-wide mating disruption Across the world’s most competitive horticulture value chains, a clear lesson has emerged: many high-impact insect pests can be controlled without defaulting to broad-spectrum, high-hazard insecticides. The most mature alternative is semiochemical-based pest management—using pheromones and other attractants to modify insect behavior…...

Rewriting crop protection: using insect “behavioral modification” instead of hazardous chemistry Global success stories and an India policy pathway to scale pheromones and semiochemicals—especially via area-wide mating disruption Across the world’s most competitive horticulture value chains, a…