India, April 16 -- In the fortnight since commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal's address at the Startup Mahakumbh, we have seen a range of comments, rants, potshots and some hot takes - everyone has an opinion on why the Indian startup ecosystem has not cracked the deeptech code.

Before going deeper into the issue - what exactly is deeptech and why is it such a hot topic right now after all?

There is no hard definition for deeptech, and this is perhaps why it's been so poorly written about in recent days. But we will try to break it down.

As far as Inc42's thesis is concerned, deeptech governs areas that are considered pure-play tech - the stuff that becomes intellectual property (IP) aka the building blocks for the tech industr...