“This is a marked departure from the ‘me too’ culture. To scale up or get funded, start-ups need to differentiate themselves from others and one method is to create IPs (intellectual property rights), and one mode of creating an IP is getting a patent. The other method is building a successful product,”

Vidhya Shankar
Executive Director, Grant Thornton India LLP

This article appeared in The Hindu Business Line on 06th February, 2018.