For several decades India has been addressed in every international forum as a developing country. It is the dream of every citizen of this country to see India transform itself into a developed nation in about 2 decades. The time has now come, when our thoughts and aspirations have to be converted into missions and thereafter into result-oriented actions.
 

A developed country is one, which has the capability and the capacity to comprehensively look at wealth generation and wealth protection and thereafter evolve integrated strategies, technologies and missions to meet these objectives. It is also a fact that technology is the established currency of geo-political power and in the Indian context; technology has to be the driving force for economical development and national security.

From the agrarian society the world moved towards industrial society. When this transition was taking place especially in Europe, India was denied a chance to participate in this great transformation due to the colonial nature of the country. Hence, the country largely remained an agrarian society. The post independent India saw the exciting global transition to information era. India, traditionally endowed with brainpower and ancient knowledge, is capturing the opportunity to enter the information era. The world is presently in the throes of another transition from information to knowledge society. India is determined to become a knowledge society making full use of its comparative advantage in creation of wealth due to its superior intellectual infrastructure leveraging and harnessing its several natural endowments. Thereafter, as desired by our Prime Minister, India needs to become a knowledge superpower in about a decade from now.
 

While a knowledge society has a two-dimensional objective of societal transformation and wealth generation, a third dimension emerges if India has to transform itself into a knowledge superpower. Protection of all available forms of knowledge, which has the potential to create wealth and social good, is critical for the nation. This knowledge protection is the third dimension to the objective. The knowledge superpower status brings in its wake a tremendous responsibility to strengthen intellectual property rights and protect the vast biological and microbial resources in particular. The India Millennium Mission 2020, piloted by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, is essentially the pathway, that can lead to an India which is the knowledge superpower in the 21st Century.
 

My greetings to Dr. AD Damodaran for launching the website www.patentmatics.com, which is a step, in the direction of India, achieving its objective of becoming a knowledge superpower.