Invent in India national movement

A sovereign national movement to transform India from an assembly and service economy into a foundational invention powerhouse

Target audience
Indian citizens, scientists, industrial leaders, university students, and the global diaspora
Primary sources
Invent in India white paper final draft 2026 by Amit Sarkar and dr savio rodrigues

Movement genesis and foundational doctrine

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 eight pillars of the movement

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.

The twenty-thousand-year stakes

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.

The eight pillars of the Invent in India national movement
Pillar numberPillar nameOperational mechanismTen-year measurable target on the yardstick
Pillar 01Name the fieldsPublic 10-year scorecards across 14 sovereign sectorsSovereign leadership benchmarks published annually
Pillar 02Patents abroad and homePromoting PCT filings backed by patent desks in hubsIndian residents in top 5 international PCT filers
Pillar 03Research and tenureTenure-track appointments tested by publicationDomestic universities in global top 100 QS rankings
Pillar 04Corporates fund researchNamed corporate sponsors funding specific hub labsPrivate sector funds over 70% of national R and D
Pillar 05Global market acceleratorsAdmitting only global-market export products100 global-market deep-tech firms from the hubs
Pillar 06Silicon Valley bridgeInnovators without borders diaspora co-development50 active diaspora co-development agreements
Pillar 07The Open DoorThe Break It Challenge: no degree, no fee, cash prizeFirst funded inventor who never sat an entrance exam
Pillar 08The published yardstickAnnual sovereign audit presented at December summitNational R and D reaches 2.0% of GDP target

Authentic research sources and citations

  1. Sarkar, A., & Rodrigues, S. (2026). Invent in India: from Make in India to Invent in India, then Make in India. White paper final draft.
  2. Kurzweil, R. (2001). The law of accelerating returns.
  3. ARK Invest. (2024). Big Ideas 2024: converging innovation platforms.