NEW DELHI: India has now emerged as the world’s 6th largest patent filer with over 64,000 patents, out of which more than 55 per cent are by resident Indian innovators, a sharp departure from the earlier trend of innovators depending on foreign institutions for research, mentorship, and project completion, Union Minister Jitendra Singh said on Friday.

Addressing the Annual Tech Fest INNOTECH’25 at KIET Deemed University, the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology said that India’s remarkable rise in resident patent filings reflects the country’s rapidly maturing innovation ecosystem and its growing global competitiveness.

Singh emphasised that this shift demonstrates the emergence of a “most compatible milieu at home", enabled by sustained policy interve

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