Opinion | To accelerate AI, India can adopt key elements from Macron’s ‘entrepreneurial state’ approach

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Opinion | To accelerate AI, India can adopt key elements from Macron’s ‘entrepreneurial state’ approach

India's $1.3 billion National AI Mission faces challenges in keeping pace. India can draw lessons from France's 'entrepreneurial state' model.

By Priya Vedavalli
April 21, 2025

In an article for the Economic Times, Priya Vedavalli, Principal at Artha Global, discusses how The AI Index 2025 reveals a significant disparity in AI investment, with the US leading at $109 billion. India’s $1.3 billion National AI Mission faces challenges in keeping pace. India can draw lessons from France’s ‘entrepreneurial state’ model.

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