Rao on Diverse Minds for Innovation | India News

India News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 21, 2026 · 1m

Professor V Ramgopal Rao, former IIT Delhi director, warns that India’s rigid education system is stifling innovation by homogenizing student thinking. He argues that despite cultural diversity, academic training creates uniform problem-solving patterns, blocking true breakthroughs. For real progress, he insists on cross-pollination of ideas — across disciplines, industries, and cultures — and calls for more researchers, better funding, stronger industry-academia ties, and higher research quality. His own record — hundreds of papers, patents, and startups — proves his belief in turning…