Tata Trusts chairman Ratan Tata today urged the governments, especially in Maharashtra to keep pace with growth and think big in skilling, innovation and infrastructure, and try replicate benefits offered in international entrepreneurship hubs like the Silicon Valley to spur entrepreneurship.Tata was speaking on Monday, February 15, at a panel discussion as a part of the Maharashtra Investment Seminar, within the Make In India Week organised in Mumbai by the Confederation of Indian Industry and the State Government. Coming after the State Industry Minister Subhash Desai and Union Minister of State for Power and Coal, Piyush Goyal spoke about how the State government has created a track record of instantly clearing projects stuck on minor hurdles, Tata’s words mapped out the road ahead.Ratan Tata said: “Over the years where Maharashtra has failed is its infrastructure has not kept pace with growth. What we lacked is thinking big enough for the growth that we could achieve.” He added that by infrastructure he meant both physical and other enablers of growth.“We need research centres and centres of innovation to encourage young people to innovate, a venture-capital led financial environment to help entrepreneurs and need creation of industrial parks with benefits like those in Silicon Valley and Massachusetts Route 128,” he added.The panel discussion was attended by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and a host of business leaders like Sun Pharma chief Dilip Shanghavi, Reliance Industries director Nikhil Meswani, Bharat Forge chairman Baba Kalyani, Mahindra & Mahindra executive director Pawan Goenka, Raymond Group chairman Gautam Shinghania among others.Responding to Tata’s suggestions and one by Baba Kalyani on setting up a skilling-corridor that can dynamically assess skill needs of the industry, chief minister Fadnavis said that he would work with the industry to promote research and development in the state. Goenka added that industry too needs to come up and invest in research without waiting for the government to initiate a policy move.