Over the past year, India has actively positioned itself as a stabilizing force in the global economy, leveraging its strong foreign-exchange reserves, moderate inflation, and a narrowing current-account deficit. Its central bank emphasises that despite heightened global tensions and trade headwinds, the country’s fundamentals remain intact and resilient. At the same time, however, India’s relative under-performance in critical technology sectors — especially semiconductors, quantum computing and advanced biotech — threatens to undermine its medium-term competitiveness, signalling a structural weakness in its innovation ecosystem. Which of the following statements, if true, most strengthens the argument made in the passage?