New Delhi, June 17 (KNN) India makes its first appearance at VivaTech in Paris and it has featured as the "country of the year".

While addressing the Indian pavilion,Ashwini Vaishnaw, the Union Minister for IT and Telecom said “that the combination of a billion smartphones and bank accounts coupled with over billions of digital identities have created unique use cases of technological advancement in India.”

“Indian startups should follow France’s way of thinking to deal with failure case”, he added.

India’s start-up game is strong and currently ranks third in overall unicorns created, behind the United States and China. While France has 27 Unicorns, for instance, India has 100.  (KNN Bureau)