A sovereign national movement to transform India from an assembly and service economy into a foundational invention powerhouse
Make in India built the factory. Make in India assembled the smartphone, fabricated the automobile chassis, and established world-class manufacturing physical infrastructure. But a country that only makes what others invent remains a tenant in the modern world, paying intellectual property rents on every component, every license, and every line of code.
Invent in India is the necessary successor and completion of Make in India. Its doctrine is simple and unyielding: Invent in India, then make what you invent, so that what India makes belongs to India. Founded by Amit Sarkar and dr savio rodrigues of kaydence media ventures, the movement exists to build the domestic laboratory, reform the examination culture, and bridge Silicon Valley innovation directly to Indian soil, seeded with verified deep-technology intellectual property as an initial proof-of-concept.
The movement operates across eight foundational pillars designed to reform culture and incentives.
Pillar one: name the fields. Establish clear, measurable ten-year milestones across fourteen strategic technology domains in public.
Pillar two: patents abroad and at home. Encourage international patent cooperation treaty filings for domestic inventions, placing Indian residents into the global top five.
Pillar three: research and tenure. Advocate for university tenure tracks governed by peer-reviewed publication and external grant acquisition.
Pillar four: corporates fund research. Shift private industry's share of national research expenditure from thirty-six percent to over seventy percent through corporate sponsorships.
Pillar five: accelerators for the global market only. Incubate companies engineered exclusively to win in open global competition, celebrating the first mega-deals above one hundred crore rupees.
Pillar six: the Silicon Valley bridge. Organize innovators without borders, enabling seamless co-development, mentorship, and capital transfer between the diaspora and domestic hubs.
Pillar seven: the Open Door. Eliminate academic elitism through open challenges with cash prizes for any innovator who can demonstrate a working idea.
Pillar eight: the yardstick, restated every year. Measure national progress annually against the same empirical scoreboard in public.
As Ray Kurzweil formulated, the twenty-first century will hold twenty thousand years of progress at twentieth-century rates. ARK Invest projects that converging technology platforms will generate over two hundred trillion dollars in value by 2030.
Five percent of that economic expansion equals eight to eleven trillion dollars—more than double India's entire current gross domestic product. A country that invents owns a share of superintelligence; a country that only makes buys it. On the inventing road, India arrives as a master of the frontier, not its customer.
| Pillar number | Pillar name | Operational mechanism | Ten-year measurable target on the yardstick |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pillar 01 | Name the fields | Public 10-year scorecards across 14 sovereign sectors | Sovereign leadership benchmarks published annually |
| Pillar 02 | Patents abroad and home | Promoting PCT filings backed by patent desks in hubs | Indian residents in top 5 international PCT filers |
| Pillar 03 | Research and tenure | Tenure-track appointments tested by publication | Domestic universities in global top 100 QS rankings |
| Pillar 04 | Corporates fund research | Named corporate sponsors funding specific hub labs | Private sector funds over 70% of national R and D |
| Pillar 05 | Global market accelerators | Admitting only global-market export products | 100 global-market deep-tech firms from the hubs |
| Pillar 06 | Silicon Valley bridge | Innovators without borders diaspora co-development | 50 active diaspora co-development agreements |
| Pillar 07 | The Open Door | The Break It Challenge: no degree, no fee, cash prize | First funded inventor who never sat an entrance exam |
| Pillar 08 | The published yardstick | Annual sovereign audit presented at December summit | National R and D reaches 2.0% of GDP target |