BRICS 2026: The Scale Gap Solution

Across the Global South, innovation is no longer scarce—scale is. This Global Eye Intelligence report examines one of the most persistent structural failures across BRICS+ economies: the inability of startups and MSMEs to convert innovation into productivity, market access, and sustained growth.

The analysis introduces the BRICS+ Startup and MSME Innovation Platform as a systemic solution anchored in three interdependent pillars—capability, capital, and connectivity. It explains why fragmented policy tools, disconnected financing mechanisms, and isolated market-access pathways have created a chronic “scale gap” across BRICS economies, despite strong enterprise formation and innovation pipelines.

The report maps how India’s BRICS 2026 presidency creates a rare execution window to shift from declarations to delivery—by linking startups directly with MSME clusters, aligning development finance with deployment outcomes, and using digital public infrastructure and procurement platforms to unlock first-scale markets. Scenario analysis outlines what success looks like if pilot corridors are operationalised, and what is at stake if BRICS fails to move beyond coordination.

For policymakers, investors, founders, MSME leaders, and strategic planners, this report offers early visibility into how enterprise upgrading, productivity growth, and South–South innovation will be structured in a multipolar economy.

Those who follow Global Eye Intelligence gain foresight before these platforms shape market access, financing norms, and competitive advantage—rather than reacting after the architecture is already set.