India Becomes Sixth-Largest Patent Filer, Driven by Resident Innovators

Overview

• Union Minister Jitendra Singh announced at the INNOTECH’25 festival in Ghaziabad that India has crossed 64,000 patent applications.
• Resident Indian innovators account for over 55% of filings, described as a break from past dependence on foreign institutions for research and mentorship.
• The government attributes the shift to sustained incentives and institutional backing under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.
• The minister cited India’s rise to rank 38 on the Global Innovation Index and pointed to milestones including Chandrayaan-3, a domestically developed DNA vaccine, indigenous antibiotics and gene-therapy trials.
• Event coverage highlighted growing private-sector engagement, with participation reported from more than 20 venture capitalists, and urged students to pursue entrepreneurship supported by schemes such as PM‑SVANidhi, Pradhan Mantri Vishwakarma and Mudra Yojana.