Chennai, Jan. 19 -- The Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-Madras) Gopalakrishnan-Deshpande Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (GDC) organised the 6th Annual GDC Symposium, themed "Democratising Innovation Entrepreneurship in India', which focussed on democratising innovation and entrepreneurship in India.

The symposium brought national focus on the role of the entrepreneur as the central driver of India's deep-tech and innovation-led growth.

More importantly, it debated how to increase the focus of policymaking, mentorship, and funding on "building capable entrepreneurs"as a missing piece of the scaling innovation puzzle in India, a release from IIT-M GDC said today.

Held at a time when India is witnessing a rapid rise o...