Key Points
New Delhi: The mood was great over the India-US initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET), but is the partnership really delivering and whats next?..
The report by Carnegie India, among other key takeaways, advises against over-institutionalising the agreement and recommends deeper cooperation with like-minded partners...
The report, titled The U.S.India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) from 2022 to 2025: Assessment, Learnings, and the Way Forward, provides a comprehensive overview of the agreement first launched in 2022 to deepen India-US cooperation in critical and emerging technologies...
In their own words, the framework announced that in May 2022 the joint India and US effort was to elevate and expand our strategic technology partnership and defence industrial cooperation between the governments, businesses, and academic institutions of our two countries...
On that front, it wondered if as a new president takes office in the United States, would it be worth thinking of the iCET as a three-year incubator that has prepared the groundwork for the next stage of USIndia strategic ties, either bilaterally or perhaps with other like-minded partners and alignments...
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