An innovative India will be inclusive as well as technologically advanced, improving the lives of all Indians. Innovation and R&D can mitigate increases in social inequality and relieve the pressures created by rapid urbanization. The growing divergence in productivity between agriculture and knowledge-intensive manufacturing and services threatens to increase income inequality. By encouraging India's R&D labs and universities to focus on the needs of poor people and by improving the ability of informal firms to absorb

knowledge, an innovation and research agenda can counter this effect. Inclusive innovation can lower the coste of goods and services and create income - earning opportunities for the poor people.

Which among the following is the most logical and rational assumption that can be made from the above passage?