R&D Policy

The Illusion of R&D Funding in India: Why Mega-Budget Announcements Fail Shop-Floor Innovation, and the Blueprint for Reform

Kunwer Sachdev / August 26, 2026

Budget Day celebrates outlays while India’s R&D intensity stays under 1% of GDP. A Su-Kam founder brief on the TDB collateral trap, Israel/Taiwan/Korea benchmarks, and five statutory reforms — royalty-on-sales, practitioner juries, scouting, outcome scorecards, and Section 35(2AB).

Su-Kam manufacturing assembly line with workers on the factory floor

Insolvency and Industrial Asset Preservation: Reforming IBC for Indian Manufacturing

Kunwer Sachdev / August 25, 2026

A policy brief on the CIRP blindspot for indigenous R&D: 77 granted patents as a living programme, the ₹300 crore-to-₹9 crore recovery gap published on this site, the Delhi High Court direction on CoC conduct, and four IBBI/Parliament reforms that treat going-concern preservation as the success metric.