New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- For India to move from a consumer to a creator of technology, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has underlined the need to not only acquire new innovations but also create the conditions where niche products thrive through sound processes, agile institutions, and a spirit of collaboration that unites the soldier, the scientist, the start-up, and the strategist, an official statement from the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said.

He was delivering the inaugural address at the Delhi Defence Dialogue, organised by the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), on the theme 'Harnessing New Age Technology for Defence Capability Development', in New Delhi on November 11.

The Defence Minister called for...