India must evolve from services to product nation: Ashwini Vaishnaw

India must transition beyond being only a services nation to a product nation in both software and hardware, developing solutions across the entire stack, union electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Thursday.

“The old mindset where only certain government institutions would be developing everything has to now give way to a new mindset where a much broader partnership of academia, startups, students, researchers — they all must join together to create new solutions,” he said.

He was speaking at an awards ceremony for the winners of the…