Hon. Minister Shri Piyush Goyal ji started this debate (and I am very thankful to him for doing so... It is high time we discussed this!!)

In India, deeptech means different things to different people... Some think putting some existing subsystems together to build (replicate) a product is deeptech. Others speak more of AI, materials science, hey engines... This diversity of opinion is probably at the root of the

In my opinion, just as copy-pasting lines of code does not constitute building a software product, reverse engineering and replication of hardware technology does not strictly lie at the deep end of the tech pool.

Does that mean it is not tech? It absolutely is!!! Shouldn't we do it? In the absence of alternatives, we absolutely should!!! By any means necessary... In order to do deeptech, do I need to build everything from scratch? Not necessarily... There will always be pieces that

But reverse engineering and replication are not enough by themselves. In fact, we need to truly understand that it is not the hard ceiling... We can go far beyond

True deeptech (IMHO) is discovering the new pathway to our stated higher goals. So in a way, what constitutes deeptech for us, will be determined by the extent of our ambitions.

As long as we limit our goals at just replicating 90% of something someone has built somewhere, we will be limited to putting existing lego blocks together. Unless our ambitions rise beyond the best in the world, we won't truly have a DEEPtech ecosystem.

As this quoted post says, we need the best of the best when it comes to the desire and the drive to win... x.com/shreepoorna365…

So, what constitutes DEEPtech? I would say that the shallow end of the pool starts with machine building... Design, development, manufacturing and assembly, automations, iterations... For everything we wish to make, the ability to eliminate import dependence for machines is

Here is a small example of what we did at e-TRNL Energy We were developing a completely new way of making battery electrodes... which meant that there existed neither a manufacturing process nor machines to do so. We designed our own process, built our own machines and

e-TRNL Energy Then comes design and development of new (hitherto unknown) systems from existing components and machines

e-TRNL Energy As we move deeper into the pool, we come to materials engineering... Picking the right set of materials for the job, and being able to process them into composite forms that give properties that are otherwise not available

e-TRNL Energy This IMHO should be the bread and butter skill for every materials engineering. The list of materials developed over the world is very very very long... Knowledge of what materials provide what value add, how to process them, how they behave to different stimuli, and how to

e-TRNL Energy Be it metals (how to form different alloys efficiently, how to process, how to achieve microstructures and properties, etc..), ceramics, polymers or their composites at different levels... Materials engineering is a bit like cooking. The same ingredients in the hands of a master

e-TRNL Energy Lastly comes the formation and synthesis of new materials for advanced applications... This is the deepest end of the deeptech pool.

e-TRNL Energy Minus the last one, we have been working across the depth of the rest of the tech pool over the past couple of years at e-TRNL Energy Developing stuff in the deeptech arena is a journey that is as fulfilling as it is hard. It is also driven by those who work silently, which is

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