The classical “Factory-led Manufacturing”, which is currently dominated by China, has largely failed to deliver dividends for most countries. This is because in the case of high-technology ICT products, over 50 percent of value-addition resides in the design, R&D and software elements and the actual manufacturing process contributes less than 10 percent.
Secondly, with the growing prominence of robotics and automation in electronics manufacturing, it becomes possible to produce almost double the number of electronics goods with half the number of shop floor workers as compared to a decade ago.
Design-led Manufacturing in 5G can catalyse the domestic ICT sector by creating a complete indigenous product ecosystem including systems (wireless, optical, switches/routers and network management), customer devices (handsets, CPE, dongles), related software, system-on-chips (using our strengths in fabless designs skills) and other high-value and critical components. We should also scale-up our EMS (contract manufacturing) capabilities to manufacture high-value-added products within the country.
Indian IPR in 5G standards
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