India’s next manufacturing leap will come not from assembling more products but from owning the ideas behind them, said Sharan Prakash Patil, Karnataka’s minister for medical education and skill development, at the 5th edition of businessline MSME Conclave 2026.
“We should move from ‘made in India’ to ‘designed, engineered and owned in India’,” said Patil, arguing that India’s millions of MSMEs will determine whether the country merely becomes the world’s factory floor or emerges as a global innovation hub.
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Published on June 28, 2026
