India remains at the top of the regional ranking of Central and Southern Asia this year, followed by Kazakhstan and Sri Lanka, which has significantly improved its position. 

Central and Southern Asia has yet to reach its full potential: Most countries in the region remain outside the top 100 of the GII. However, the economies at the top of the regional rankings can serve as models of good innovation policies with stronger institutions that will help stimulate higher levels of innovation-driven regional development in the coming years.

This year India has been chosen as one of the innovation achievers in the CSA region under lower middle income category. To this effect the India chapter in the book provides a narrative on how India has shaped its policy over years and a perspective on what has work for India and what not.

The chapter also outlines certain learning for its peers in this area and states what India should do to overcome its policy bottlenecks to become an innovation driven nation. As one of its objective, GII 2015 also includes insightful chapters from other "Innovation achievers" among developing countries.

These chapters analyse these countries in more detail and try to establish a link with good business practices and smart innovation policies. They also provide information on the effectiveness and the degree of development these policies have imparted on the innovation achiever countries.
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