India, March 4 -- Several developing countries showed stronger capabilities to use and adapt frontier technologies above their GDPs, but were lagging behind
India was the biggest 'overperformer' in frontier technologies than the country's per capita gross domestic products (GDP) would suggest, according to a recent country-readiness index released by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
Frontier technologies include artificial intelligence, the internet of things, big data, blockchain, fifth-generation mobile telephony, three-dimensional printing, robotics, drones (remotely controlled flights), gene-editing, nanotechnology and solar power - the ones that take advantage of digitalisation and connectivity.
The i...