Why we can't have a Bill Gates in India

We had all read about the raging debate about why India is just a huge pool of software programmers who work on instructions of Western companies, they have hardly innovated in the technology arena as have their western counterparts have done. Interestingly, the very same Indian engineers have formed part of Microsoft and Oracle teams who have developed the most pervasively used software in the world. People attribute this lack of innovation to a variety of reasons. There are two interesting reasons which I got from an article in ET.

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As for the emoticon, here’s MindTree founder and COO Subroto Bagchi’s take on why it didn’t come out of India: “Our engineering courses don’t make theatre appreciation compulsory, which could have taught us to emote.

Our B Tech has no compulsory semester in biology, which could have taught us how our body functions. And our advanced IT curriculum offers nothing on consumer behaviour that could have taught us how to tap the market.”It’s time then, to reboot the system.
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Read the entire article at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/936559.cms