New Delhi, April 11 -- Debjani Ghosh, a fellow at the NITI Aayog and the former president of industry body Nasscom, on Friday said there are "important opportunities" facing India, and the country must ramp up its R&D capabilities.

Ghosh, speaking to ANI on the sidelines of the Carnegie Global Tech Summit, said India must build world-class R&D capabilities to disrupt some of the strategic supply chains--semiconductor and bioengineering, among others.

"These are going to be very impactful from a security perspective, compute perspective," she said.

As AI adoption rises, energy requirements will incrementally grow, and Ghosh believes India can become a market for the world to source renewable energy.

"AI needs energy, and that demand is...