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The Industry Between the Farm and the Laboratory: Building India's Missing Bio-Industrial Middle

1. Introduction: A Bioeconomy Without a Middle India's interest in the bioeconomy is entering a new phase. For many years, biotechnology policy was associated primarily with pharmaceuticals, vaccines, agricultural biotechnology, and research institutions. The country's growing capabilities in biopharmaceuticals have since pushed the frontier further, while newer policy initiatives are beginning to emphasise bio-manufacturing as an industrial opportunity in its own right. At the same time, businesses are increasingly exploring a much wider range of biological applications — from industrial fermentation and specialty ingredients to bioplastics, biomaterials, nutraceuticals, and other bio-based products. These developments are important not only because they create new industries, but because they suggest that biological resources could become a more significant part of India's manufacturing economy. Agricultural crops, forestry resources, biological residues and other forms o...
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Beyond the Classroom: Designing India's Education–Employment Bridge

Introduction: India's Missing Middle India's employment debate is increasingly defined by a paradox. The country is  expanding higher education,  producing more graduates across regions and communities, and creating new skilling and training programs - yet employers across sectors continue to complain that many young people are not ready for productive work. At the same time, millions of young people struggle to find stable employment or spend years preparing for competitive examinations because the alternatives available to them appear uncertain. The problem is often described as a shortage of skills. But that diagnosis is incomplete. India is not short of educated people, nor is it necessarily short of jobs in every sector. What is missing is a sufficiently strong institutional bridge between education and productive employment. That distinction is becoming more important as the structure of work changes. Recent evidence illustrates the scale of the disconnect. A HirePro rep...
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