A report onR&D and innovation in India Status

&opportunities

Prepared by Shalabh singh baghel B. tech. 2nd sem.

Present scenario

The history of Indian Science & Technology is very rich and old starting from ancient Indus valley

civilization to today Higgs Boson era. Day by day opportunities are growing , touching new horizons

and bringing laurels to India.

Importance of R&D in development

Defence Economy

Health & Standard of civilization

Agriculture

How to achieve success in research living in India?

Research programs & fellowships

Junior & senior research

fellowships by CSIR, DBT, ICMR,

ICAR , DRDO ,DAE, ISRO. “India as World's

Knowledge Hub of the Future”

(2005)

“Commercialization of Innovation: Mind to Market”

(2006)

“Innovation - Advantage India”

(2007)

Nanotechnology- Science of the Future (2008)

ICT Innovations (2009)

Geospatial Technologies

(2009)

Awards

Innovative Young Biotechnologist Award (IYBA)

NASI-Scopus young Scientist awards KVPY Olympiads

Can’t a woman go ahead in research in India?

Answer is a big NO.

Fellowships for women

WOS-A WOS-B WOS-C DBT– BIO CARe National Young Woman Bioscientist

Award and National Senior Woman Bioscientists by DBT

Various women scholarships

WOS-C Internship for self

employment

WOS-A Scholarship for basic/applied

science

WOS-B Scholarship for

research in S&T – based societel

programs

Building Industry – Academia links

DST – Prime Minister’s Fellowship for doctoral research.

Joint initiative taken by Science &engineering Research Board (SERB) and Confederation Indian Industry (CII)

Sector wise percentage share of R&D

Central Government 64.9%

State Government 8.6%

Public Sector Industries 10.1%

Private Sector Industries 16.4%

Comparison with China

India published a mere 233,027 scientific papers in 2010 compared to 969,315 research articles by China. China recorded a 22.83% growth in publishing scientific research compared to 14.27% by Indian researchers. 

 India had 159 areas of competencies in different scientific fields while China had 885 such areas

China has targeted investing 3% of it’s GDP to scientific endeavours by 2020.

China patents five times more than India for every billion dollars of GDP and the growth in registering new patents has risen rapidly over past five years. In 2005, China had filed 93,485 patents and this galloped to 153,060 in 2007.

India is still 'aspiring' to ramp it up from the current 0.9% to 2% by 2017. 

How to improve India’s Higher education &research quality? Reduce spending public money on non-performing

institutes. Strict accountability on research institutes. Private institutes should rise their standard to give

degrees and admission in colleges. Tenure tracking. R&D as integral part of colleges.

Teachers – engage in research activities. Shifting some focus from syllabus to R&D

activities.

Innovation and investment depend on more than simply spending more money. They also benefit from development of a sound legal environment to protect Intellectual property, investment in higher educationTo increase the supply of highly skilled human resources; and a favorable regulatory environment that contributes to the incentives for as well as protection of intellectual property.

Are IITs sufficient to strengthen the base of R&D education?

Higher Education

Some institutions in India , such as the Indian Institute of Technology IITs, have been globally acclaimed for their standard of undergraduate education in Engineering,However the IITs have not had significant research and innovation.

Their are some institutions like IACS, IISC, TIFS,HRI, BITS however India has failed to produce world class universities both in private sector and public sector . But no doubt that India’s medical college AIIMS has got so many achievements.

R&D Innovation Drivers for Multi-sourcing of Innovation

Shortening of Global Market Penetration Time for new products

Decreasing market shelf life for new products Shortening R&D Development Cycle G 8 countries

Increasing R&D cost Demand Supply Gap of R&D talents

Global Knowledge Source and Seamless Global Network Innovation in Multi-Geography and Multi-Organization

System thru’ Global Knowledge Collaboration Technoglobalism

India is poised to become the Global Innovation Hub for the 21st Century

Concluding thoughts

Fresh & innovative thinking

Not enough confidence to change and innovate

Reduced impetus for innovation

Propensity to Innovate

State of EconomyDepressed Uncertain Growing Booming

Sight on value and result may be lost

India is a Growing Economy with Tremendous Potential and Propensity to Innovate