India’s ambition to achieve developed-economy status by 2047 under the Viksit Bharat vision rests on expanding productive capacity, on engineering a structural transition toward innovation-led, knowledge-intensive growth. It is a transition that is fundamentally contingent on the quality, coherence and forward-orientation of its regulatory architecture.

This conference advances the argument that regulatory framework design is a primary macroeconomic variable, not a secondary administrative consideration and that India’s ability to sustain high-quality growth over the coming decades will be determined in significant part by whether its institutions are recalibrated to incentivise discovery, reward complexity and attract long-horizon investment.