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“Unlike with IT, India riding the new biosciences wave shouldn’t be an accident”

“Unlike with IT, India riding the new biosciences wave shouldn’t be an accident”

It was by chance that India rode the IT wave, but replicating this success with the next big thing—the biosciences revolution—will need the country to be much more proactive. “If the 20th century was the era of computing, the 21st century may be the era of biosciences,” Ashok Trivedi, co-founder of IGATE (sold to Capgemini in 2016) and managing partner of venture capital fund SWAT Capital Trivedi, said. The founder & trustee of the private Ashoka University has already committed over Rs100 crore ($13.97 million) to set up the Trivedi School of Biosciences at varsity’s campus in Sonepat, Haryana.