Solar Power for the Poor Technologies to harness solar power as a path to low-carbon energy are developing at breakneck speed. How can developing countries best make use of them to benefit the millions of rural poor who still live without electricity?
Need to Realign India's National Solar Mission While solar energy has great potential as a renewable energy source for India, in terms of resource availability, flexibility in scale and applications, it is one of the most expensive of such options today. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with an ambitious target of 22 GW of solar power capacity by 2022, is a departure from the past, as India has started to mainstream climate considerations in energy planning, and has allocated a large public subsidy for promotion of solar energy. But the mission objectives are unclear and actions are not aligned with India's development needs. Solar lanterns should be distributed using innovative mechanisms and a public process should be initiated to quickly develop a comprehensive plan for implementation of solar home lighting systems and off-grid solutions.
Solar Energy in India CeRES (Centre of Research on Energy Security), TERI has come up with the latest issue of "Energy Security Insights" on Solar Energy in India: Assessing the Transition to a "Solar India". This issue looks at some of the issues that India's National Solar Mission raises and which need to be kept in mind as India tries to upscale the role of solar energy in its energy mix.
Climate Issues Update
The report is an update from The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (TEEB) which presents conclusions related to climate change. The update addresses four domains which according to TEEB should be highlighted in the run-up to Copenhagen: Coral Reefs; Forest Carbon; National Accounts and; Public Investment in Ecological Infrastructure. The study presents TEEB's recommendations and conclusions primarily for policy-makers, negotiators, and the general public.
Climate Change - A Developing Country Perspective This article looks at the issue of climate change from a developing country perspective and develops an outline of a win-win-oriented climate policy around development priorities. The article stresses the need for using sustainable development as a framework for climate-change policies. The advantage of the sustainable development approach is that it looks at real needs and real human development.
24 Recent initiatives related to climate change A list of 24 recent initiatives taken by the India on climate change from the Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India.
Decision on banning of Bt Brinjal by Government of India
The document enlists reasons for Government of India to ban the Bt Brinjal. More information is available at the Ministry of Environment & Forests' website.
National Water Mission Document by Ministry of Water Resources on National Water Mission under the National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) enlists review of National Water Policy; research and studies on impact of climate change on water resources apart from the other important feature of the Mission.
India : Options for Low Carbon Development Initiated in 2005, this study was requested by the government of India to (a) develop the analytical capacity required to help identify low-carbon growth opportunities, up to 2032, in major sectors of the economy; and (b) facilitate informed decision making by improving the knowledge base and raising national and international awareness of India's efforts to address global climate change. The objective of this synopsis is to give an account of the modeling results projecting fuel use in energy-intensive sectors and associated carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions between 2007 and 2032.
Dividing Climate Change: Global Warming in The Indian Mass Media
Abstract Much research has now been conducted into the representation of climate change in the media. Specifically, the communication of climate change from scientists and policy-makers to the public via the mass media has been a subject of major interest because of its implications for creating national variation in public understanding of a global environmental issue. However, to date, no study has assessed the situation in India. As one of the major emerging economies, and so one of the major greenhouse gas emitters, India is a key actor in the climate change story. This study analyses the four major, national circulation English-language newspapers to quantify and qualify the frames through which climate change is represented in India. The results strongly contrast with previous studies from developed countries; by framing climate change along a 'risk-responsibility divide', the Indian national press set up a strongly nationalistic position on climate change that divides the issue along both developmental and postcolonial lines.
India Taking on Climate Change
The document enlists steps to be taken by the Government of India in order to tackle climate change. It includes various programmes - planned and being launched - by the government with the help of Ministry of Environment and Forests.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Accomplishments, Controversies and Challenges The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has successfully produced four assessment reports since 1990 along with a number of special reports and greenhouse gas inventory guidelines. It has very rigorous and robust procedures and guidelines for preparing the assessment reports largely based on synthesis of peer-reviewed and published scientific literature. IPCC has attracted controversy since the Second Assessment Report of 1995. The recent controversies surrounding the IPCC reports surfaced nearly two years after the release of the report in 2007, especially in the wake of the crucial Copenhagen Climate Convention. Many of the controversies can be traced to the use of information sourced from reports published outside the scientific journals such as reports of the World Wildlife Fund. It is true that there are a few errors in the IPCC reports, which may have escaped the multilayered rigorous review process. Many of the errors found in the main reports, which are over a thousand page each, have not been quoted in the crucial and most referred Summary for Policy Makers. IPCC may have to develop a more robust policy for sourcing literature published outside the scientific journals. The United Nations Secretary General has requested the prestigious Inter-Academy Council to review the IPCC principles, procedures and guidelines. The controversies raised in the recent past do not in any way change the main conclusions of the IPCC Assessment Report.
In this article, an attempt is made to present the author's views as an author involved in eight reports of the IPCC. Part I of the article briefly explains the organization, its principles, procedures and achievements. Part II deals with the controversies and future of the IPCC.
"India's GreenHouse Gases Emissions Profile: Results of Five Climate Modelling Studies" A report on India's per capita emission of GreenHouse Gasses (GHG). The report is based on 5 different studies launch by Climate Modelling Forum of India and Ministry of Environment & Forests (GoI).
GoI Approval to National Biotechnology Development Strategy Ministry of Science & Technology, GoI accorded approval to National Biotechnology Development Strategy in November 2007. The Strategy which was approved after a two year long consultation process with various stakeholders, lays a foundation for discovery and innovation, effectively utilising novel technology platforms to contribute to long term benefits in agriculture, health, environmental security and sustainable industrial growth.
National Biotechnology Development Strategy A report developed by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Some of the key features of the Strategy report are : creating world class research capacity; building academic excellence in the country; supporting small and medium sector innovations etc.
Biotech In India The article takes stock of National Biotechnology Development Strategy, which seeks to build coherence and connectivity between disciplines, bring together the variegated skills across sectorsto enhance synergy and address a number of challenges.
The Biological Sciences in India
India is gearing up to become an international player in the life sciences, powered by its recent economic growth and a desire to add biotechnology to its portfolio. In this article, we present the history, current state, and projected future growth of biological research in India. To fulfil its aspirations, India's greatest challenge will be in educating, recruiting, and supporting its next generation of scientists. Such challenges are faced by the US/Europe, but are particularly acute in developing countries that are racing to achieve scientific c excellence, perhaps faster than their present educational and faculty support systems will allow.
The Biological Sciences in India
India is gearing up to become an international player in the life sciences, powered by its recent economic growth and a desire to add biotechnology to its portfolio. In this article, we present the history, current state, and projected future growth of biological research in India. To fulfil its aspirations, India's greatest challenge will be in educating, recruiting, and supporting its next generation of scientists. Such challenges are faced by the US/Europe, but are particularly acute in developing countries that are racing to achieve scientific c excellence, perhaps faster than their present educational and faculty support systems will allow.
South-South Biotech Collaborations Flourish
A survey of entrepreneurial collaborations among health biotech firms in developing countries reveals a surprisingly high level of collaboration but a lack of emphasis on new or improved health biotech products and processes.
Globalisation of the Biomedical Industry and Biomedical Innovation System of India Report on global biomedical industry in general and the emerging biomedical innovation system in India and its implications for Sweden by Dr Prasada Reddy, Professor at the Lund University, Sweden.
The Government is Seriously Engaged in Developing An Indigenous Medical Device Industry Dr T. Ramasami, Secretrary of Department of Science & Technology, Government of India talks about the initiatives of the Ministry of Science & Technology towards prolifertion and development of medical implants and devices and the overall growth of the medical technology innovations in Inida, in an interview with "eHealth" magazine.
Open Source TB Megaproject Yields First Fruits A unique effort by scientists to pull together scattered genetic information about the tuberculosis (TB) bug, with the goal of developing new remedies, has identified its first candidate molecule. The Open Source Drug Discovery (OSDD) programme aroused huge interest when it was mooted by Samir Brahmachari, director-general of India's Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in 2007, because it offered a new route to finding drugs for diseases in the developing world traditionally neglected by drug companies. Source SciDevNet
BioGenesis - The Indo-European Health Cluster The newly founded company, a non-profit organization, is charged with the coordination, integration, development and marketing of the Indo-European Health Cluster as one of the leading life science clusters in India.
Biocluster is to boost the development of the Life Sciences industry and to facilitate businesses between Universities, Hospitals, Pharmaceutical Companies and other related entities by bringing them in a close proximity. The Biocluster does not only comprise of organizations of Hyderabad but also boasts of extensive input from our European counterparts who have taken immense interest to develop and build this Biocluster. Our European counterparts have ensured that the Biocluster would attract Life Science Organizations of the world. Hence, this Biocluster is rightly a Hyderabad-European venture and is launched with the name of "BioGenesis - The Indo-European Health Cluster".
HIV/AIDS Research in India: Past, Present and Future Since the first report on the serodiagnosis of HIV-1 infection in 1987, several laboratories from India have contributed significantly to the knowledge of HIV/ AIDS over the years. These reports span a wide range of disciplines including serological and molecular characterization of the viral strains circulating in India; elucidation and characterization of the recombinant strains; study of the economic impact of the viral infection; examination of the immune profile of the host; delineating the natural history of HIV-1/ AIDS; evaluation of the awareness among general populations; molecular validation of the primary viral isolates and study of their pathogenic properties including neuro-pathogenesis; developing and evaluating alternative therapeutic strategies for HIV/AIDS; vaccine development and validation in human clinical trials, etc. The quantum of academic research in India is driven mainly by individual investigators affiliated to research institutions, universities and clinics spread across the country, with a few research institutes and non-government organizations making significant contributions. Given the space restriction and the volume of the research that has appeared in peer reviewed journals, it would not be possible to encompass all this work in the present review. This review primarily focuses on a few basic and application oriented research reports that appeared over the years from India. Additionally, attention will be drawn to several other elegantly written reviews that focused on areas that have not been covered here.
Fuelling the Indian Economic Engine by Retooling Indian Technical Education Improving a nation's higher education system in science, engineering and technology is directly correlated to its economic health and the social development of its population, and one of the reasons India has lagged in this regard has been its seemingly outdated and unplanned technical education system that is often driven more by fiscal motives than addressing the needs of the nation. Herein, it is established that the American model of technical education is inherently superior to models in place in other nations and that this model was predominantly shaped by the unique conditions that permeated American society at the time of its inception. It is then suggested that India remodel its technical education along the lines of the American higher education system, but do so with suitable modifications to assimilate the realities facing Indian society. Accordingly, steps to achieve this challenging transformation are prescribed. Resuscitating the Indian higher education system necessitates considerable ingenuity and prudence on the part of its administrators and planners, and the purpose of this article is to stimulate wider discussion and introspection within Indian academic and government circles. Source: Current Science, 2010, v. 98 pp. 1442-1457.
Survey on "The Euro India Knowledge Mapping The survey was carried out under the European Union's 7th Framework Programme. Mr S. Raj, CEO and Founder of Acadinnet Education Services India Pvt Ltd shares his experiences and challenges faced by his organisation while carrying out the study.
Working with Indian ICT Innovation This article brings out the summary of the research conducted by the Copenhagen Business School (CBS) on the capacity for innovation in the Indian ICT arena.
"A Stakeholder View" of ICT policy in India
It is safe to say that the perceived need for innovation across the board, its potential impact and power to change the meaning and quality of life are of proportions never seen before.
Infrastructure or Content-driven Consider the mobile rickshaws which go around the world-famous Pushkar fairs providing mobile connectivity at the last mile. This is ICT at its rural best - an article by Mr Rajen Varada.
"ICT Knowledge Mapping Study" under Euro-India ICT Co-operation The objectives of this study was to obtain an exhaustive mapping of the Indian ICT knowledge, research and innovation landscape as a core part of the Euro-India project. The project designed a step wise, multi-modular methodology to achieve the purpose.
Adviser to The Prime Minister on Public Information Infrastructure Appointed
Mr Sam Pitroda, father of India's telecom revolution has been appointed Adviser to the Prime Minister for Public information Infrastructure. The Office of Adviser will undertake the task of reviewing, developing, utilising and scaling public information infrastructure in the country to help improve productivity, efficiency and quality of the systems and processes to deliver public services for citizen empowerment. The Office of Adviser will discuss, debate, analyse, articulate, and sensitise the need to innovate, at all levels and in all sectors in the country with a focus on inclusive growth, global competitiveness and prosperity, and create a Roadmap for a Decade of Innovation to meet the challenges of the 21st century. The mission would be to generate, adopt, diffuse and apply knowledge in a globally competitive economy for health, education, employment, access to information and inclusive growth. This would be done by strengthening the three pillars of a knowledge economy: Public Information Infrastructure & Applications; Innovation Eco-system & Output; Governance & Public Delivery Systems.
The ICT Sector in India: Performance, Growth and Key Challenges There is however no recent detailed OECD analysis on the Indian IT sector as a whole. This report sets out to fill the analytical gap, in particular by analysing longer-term developments through the 2000's. It provides an overview of the recent performance and growth of the Indian ICT sector and related policies, focussing both on the software and hardware segments, and discusses the short- and longer-term outlook. This first section contains a general introduction of the IT sector. The second section describes the general economic setting in India, while the third section describes the competitiveness of the Indian IT sector. The fourth section analyses stages of development, identifying various domestic segments and trade development, and the next section describes revenue, employment and spending. The sixth section identifies some factors driving growth, while the next section highlights some important policy changes and different initiatives taken by the government and other bodies, including industry associations. The final section identifies challenges in maintaining growth in the IT sector and includes discussion of the short- and long-term effects on the Indian IT industry of the economic recession and recovery.
The Dragon and the Elephant: Understanding the Development of Innovation Capacity in China and India: Summary of a Conference The return of the once-dormant economies of China and India to dynamism and growth is one of the most remarkable stories in recent history. The two countries are home to nearly 40 percent of the world's population, but until recently neither had played an influential role in the contemporary global economy. In the past two decades, China and India have liberalized internal economic policy, treatment of foreign investment, and trade, and have experienced economic growth at sustained high rates. From the point of view of the United States, however, the most important development in the Chinese and Indian economies in the long term may be the strides they are making in developing their own domestic innovation capacities. After a long period of underinvestment, both countries have committed to growing their science and education systems to bolster research and further economic expansion.
Some observers of the recent growth have said that both countries are surging in their efforts to spur innovation; others have emphasized the potential of one country over the other; and still others have suggested that both China and India have a long way to go before achieving innovation-driven growth. With such a range of views, The National Academies set out to describe developments in both countries, in relation to each other and the rest of the world, by organizing a conference in Washington, D.C. The conference, summarized in this volume, discussed recent changes at both the macroeconomic level and also in selected industries, and explored the causes and implications of those changes.
India - EU Workshop on Partnerships In Innovation To explore ways in which Europe and India, multi-cultural democracies with large populations, big consumer markets and vibrant technology sectors, could innovate better together, a European delegation led by Mrs Françoise le Bail, Deputy Director General of the Enterprise and Industry Directorate General of the European Commission, visited India in December 2009. The delegation comprised of representatives of industry and academia and major research organisations in Europe, as well as representatives of government.
The delegation participated in a Workshop on Innovation in Chennai, focusing on the transportation and IT and telecom sectors and a Workshop in Delhi on Innovation Policies and Frameworks. These workshops were very successful and were well attended by representatives of Indian industry and academia. The exchanges and discussions at the workshops enabled a better understanding of European and Indian innovation systems, capacities and public support policies and helped to identify areas of common interest and to explore opportunities for cooperation.
India - Decade of Innovation - Updated Document The President of India, in her address to Parliament on 4th June 2009, had mentioned that the next ten years would be dedicated as a "Decade of Innovation". This commitment was reiterated by the Prime Minister of India in the 97th Session of Indian Science Congress held on 3rd January, 2010 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala where he also mentioned in his speech that the Government has declared 2010-2020 as the "Decade of Innovations". The main aim of this declaration is to develop an innovation eco-system in the country to stimulate innovations and to produce solutions for the societal needs in terms of healthcare, energy, urban infrastructure, water and transportation. An informal group of 15 people, headed by Mr Sam Pitroda, Adviser to the Prime Minister of India for Public Information Infrastructure and Innovations is brainstorming on the process to be followed. Among the 15 is Mr Shekhar Kapoor, an eminent film maker (Oscar winner for Elisabeth). The establishment of a National Innovation Council will soon be announced. An innovation fund of 1 Billion USD is also envisaged. A presentation made on the discussions of the informal group for the roadmap 2010-2020 by Mr Pitroda is attached.
14 Innovation Universities to be Set Up in India by 2012
14 Innovation Universities are being planned to be set up by the Government by the year 2012. A Public Private Partnership (PPP) Model is being looked at for setting up these universities. Each University would focus on one area or problem of significance to India and build an ecosystem of research and teaching around different related disciplines and fields of study, which are relevant thereto, and search for solutions that are globally valid and in the process develop education at undergraduate and higher levels. For illustration such areas/problems of relevance could be the challenges of urbanization, environmental sustainability in relation to growth and progress of life on earth, public health. Attached the concept note from the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
Made In India - The Innovation Revolution India has moved from being the world's backoffice to becoming a global hub for research and development. Two English dailies "Hindustan Times" and "Mint" have identified a set of companies and people that are giving India a steely new cutting edge and changing the lives of millions worldwide.
Innovation Policy Progress Report - India The INNO-Policy TrendChart annual country reports are produced for each country monitored by the network of expert innovation policy correspondents. They are meant to complement the on-going monitoring of policy measures and information collected, and provide an in-depth analysis of the innovation environment in each country.
Globalisation, Innovation & Social Capital - Changing Nature of Indo-French S&T Cooperation
The present paper is an attempt to explore whether the Globalisation process has enhanced the significance of social capital as an explanatory variable of innovation. The focus of present paper is on the international dimensions of innovation policies that are likely to influence not only international investment decisions and competitive strategy but also technological change and development process. An attempt is made to analyze the changing nature of Indo-French S&T cooperation in the wider context of the Globalisation of innovation process and whether any discontinuity is likely to be introduced in the collaboration pattern and international cooperation policy. India and France provide an interesting background for the study of the same as India and France are emerging as major global players.
R&D Strategy of Small and Medium Enterprises in India: Trends and Determinanets The liberalization of economic policies in the last two decades and intensifying market competition tends to be a cause of policy concern for the survival of SMEs in emerging economies like India as these firms accounts for the largest chunk of industrial units and employment. Given their limited financial and intangible resources, the promotion of R&D among SMEs has become a very important policy parameter. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on Indian R&D by analyzing the trends and patterns of R&D investment by Indian manufacturing SMEs during the period 1991-2008 and exploring various factors that determine their R&D behaviour. The results show that Indian SMEs have lowest incidence of doing in-house R&D and their R&D intensities have fallen in the last decade.
India's National Innovation System : Key Elements and Corporate Perspective
The objective of this paper is to better understand the motives and barriers for innovation offshoring to India from the perspective of large (multinational) and medium-sized companies which have created local capacities in India with an intention to develop, produce and sell products in India.
This working paper has been prepared as a project report for the project "India's Innovation System : Exploring the Strengths" carried out in cooperation with Honolulu based East - West Centre.
India Launches National Innovation Council
The recently set up National Innovation Council got off to a flying start on 9 September with its members unanimously deciding to work for establishing a Rs. 5,000 crore fund to promote innovations.
EU - India Dialogue on Global Outreach of European and Indian Innovation Clusters An EU-India dialogue on innovation clusters took place on 1 December 2010. The objective of the event was to stimulate and facilitate global outreach of European and Indian innovative clusters through in particular: Increasing mutual awareness on cluster policies, development methods and management practices; Facilitating in Europe and in India access to and contact with the appropriate cluster stakeholders; Fostering research, innovation and industrial cooperation between clusters in Europe and in India. About 80 persons from Europe and from India participated.
India's Draft Innovation Law The Department of Science and has released for consultation a draft innovation law, an Act to facilitate public, private or public- private partnership initiatives for building an Innovation support system to encourage Innovation, evolve a National Integrated Science and Technology Plan and codify and consolidate the law of confidentiality in aid of protecting Confidential Information, trade secrets and Innovation.
Rise of Innovation in India India has become one of the fastest growing economies of the world. Her continued surge in economic growth both before and after the recent (2008) global financial crisis has further lent credence to the hypothesis that the economic growth registered by the country is sustainable as it is based more on technological improvements rather than by using more factor inputs such as labour and capital. Recent estimates of total factor productivity growth lend some empirical support to this hypothesis. India has also been receiving sizeable chunks of FDI in R&D by MNCs. There are also press reports of a number of innovations emanating from the country although systematic empirical evidence on this issue is found wanting in the literature.1 One of the avowed objectives of economic reforms in India since 1991 was to promote competition between firms. Along with the possibility of increased competition, one also sees that the country has become increasingly integrated with the rest of the world although on this count China has a better record than that of India. All these factors may pave the way for India to invest in innovative activities as the firms in India are no longer concerned with domestic competition, but international as well. In the context, the aim of this collection of papers is to shed some systematic light on varied facets of technological changes and innovations in India's manufacturing establishment. There are essentially a total of seven papers, which make up this special issue. Of the seven, two are general papers on the nature, extent and the impact on innovative activity in the economy. The subsequent five papers focus on issues related to innovation in five different sectors, two high-technology sectors (namely pharmaceutical and biotechnology), two medium-technology sectors (automotive and steel) and a low-tech sector (textiles). All these five sectors are important for their contribution to employment, exports and GDP as well. The introduction, as well as a chapter on whether innovations are on the rise in India since the onset of reforms of 1991 and an analysis of its evidence and some disquieting features, as attached.
Government Energy Innovation Investments, Policies and Institutions in Major Emerging Economies -BRIMCS
The paper is entitled 'Government Energy innovation Investments. Policies and Institutions in the Major Emerging Economies Brazil, Russia, India, Mexico, China and South Africa' and is from the Harvard Kennedy School. The major finding of the study is that six major emerging economies, the 'BRIMCS' countries, invest more in energy research and development (R&D) than a large group of developed countries and that in 2008, the governments of BRIMCS countries invested US$13.8 billion in energy research, development and demonstration (RD&D) — well above the combined US$12.7 billion spent by the governments of the 28 member countries of the International Energy Agency, including Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.
S&T Cooperation of the ERA Countries with Brazil, India and Russia - A Challenge or a Trouble In order to obtain better insights into ERA countries' international S&T cooperation with these countries, a questionnaire based approach was developed through the CREST Working Group on Internationalisation of R&D2, focused on ERA countries' policies on internationalisation of S&T. It was aimed at providing an overview of their S&T cooperation policies, government strategies and related experiences with BIR. The current paper, thus, aims to provide an assessment of the status of public S&T cooperation based on analysis of questionnaire responses and further analytical work to identify good practices, common objectives and open questions.
India-Trento Program for Advanced Research (ITPAR)
Agreement for Advanced Research Programme between India and Trento (Italy) was signed on July 23, 2003 by University of Trento, Government of the Autonomous Province of Trento and Department of Science and Technology of the Indian Government with the sponsorship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The renewal of the "Agreement for Advanced Research Programme between India and Trento" was signed in Delhi in January 2007 has given the opportunity to launch a Phase II of ITPAR with the aim to open new scientific areas of collaboration and to extend it to other Indian and Italian research institutions.
Australia - $ 2.7m Boost for S&T Research with India Australian Innovation Minister Senator Kim Carr today announced that nine projects have been awarded $2.7 million from Round 4 of the Indo-Australian Science and Technology Fund, which is a component of the Australia-India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF).
Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into research outputs in the form of publications and patents. We expect research inputs by a faculty member to be an outcome of his/her own decision-making process, which in turn determine his/her research outputs. Exogenous parameters, like faculty background, faculty attitude, research sponsorship and institutional factors, are expected to influence both set of endogenous variables (research inputs and outputs). We specify this production function as a recursive simultaneous equation model and estimate the structural parameters using standard econometric methods. Our results clearly identify several drivers of academic research and patenting in India, in terms of faculty background, faculty attitude and other parameters, from which we arrive at concrete policy lessons for patenting of academic research in India. In particular, we argue that putting in place institutional structures will not serve the purpose without addressing the fundamental issues of research environment, culture and attitude in the first place. In a sense, therefore, introducing an IPR legislation alone may not act as an instant magic formula to energise Indian academic research for commercial application.
NANO-SCIENCES, NANOTECHNOLOGIES, MATERIALS AND NEW PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
Conference on "Issues of Capability and Governance in Nanotechnology Development" As a part of The Energy and Resources Institute's (TERI) project on Capability, Governance, and Nanotechnology Developments, supported by IDRC Canada, a conference on 'Issues of Capability and Governance in Nanotechnology Developments' was organized on 22nd and 23rd April 2010 in New Delhi. The conference concluded a series of stakeholder dialogues and workshops that TERI has been organizing for the past three years on issues around nanotechnology.
ERC Awards Grant Worth Euros 983,117 to a Student From India A student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) has been awarded grant for a research project by the European Research Council. Dr Ramesh Pillai will work in a French lab, researching the mysteries of human DNA for the next five years.
India's Emergence as a Global RD Center
This study provides a strategic review of economic and R&D developments in India. It examines key trends, drivers and future prospects for R&D with a special focus on India's emerging role as a center for research and knowledge processing service industries. The study also discusses scenarios for India's emergence as a major economic and R&D power and subsequent local and global consequences.
GoI's 11th Five Year Plan on Science & Technology Report of the Steering Committee on Science & Technology for 11th Five Year Plan (2007 - 12) by Planning Commission, Government of India.
National Knowledge Commission Report (2006 - 09) - Report to the Nation The National Knowledge Commission is a high-level advisory body to the Prime Minister of India, with the objective of transforming India into a knowledge society. In its endeavour to transform the knowledge landscape of the country, the National Knowledge Commission has submitted around 300 recommendations on 27 focus areas during its three and a half year term. While the term of the NKC has come to an end, the implementation of NKC's recommendations is currently underway at the Central and State levels.
"Indian Science & Technology 2008" - Full Report
The Report presents a ready-reckoner on nearly all aspects of Indian S&T. Divided over six broad themes - human resources, finance, structures and infrastructures, industry, output and rural India. "India S&T 2008" is the first in series of reports on the progress of science and technology and its applications seen by science policy researchers.
"The New Geography of Science" - Global Research Report-India The report informs policymakers about the changing landscape and dynamics of the global research base.
R&D Statistics by Department of Science & Technology The R&D Statistics 2007-2008 is based on the survey conducted during 2005-06. DST has strived to gather data from a large number of scientific agencies, research laboratories, socio-economic ministries/ departments, public and private sector industries including multi-national companies. The report presents analysis on a number of parameters based on data drawn both from primary and secondary sources. It includes several cross tabulations on financial and manpower resources deployed for R&D by sector/ objectives/fields of science/industry groups/qualification/nature of activity/gender/emoluments, etc. While the information is probably out of date, it is the latest comprehensive report available on R&D in India.
EBG Position Paper on India The European Business Group (EBG) Position Paper reflects the diverse presence of European companies in India and their perspective in the different sectoral areas. Attached is the next edition of the Position Paper for the year 2010. The edition will help the reader get valuable insights on the operations of EBG member companies in India.
India As A Global Leader in Science This vision document has been drawn up by the Science Advisory Committee to the Prime Minister. In the next two decades, India is likely to become an economically prosperous nation and move significantly towards being a far more inclusive society, with the bulk of its population gaining access to facilities for education and health care and living a life with hope and security. To realize such a vision, it is essential that science is at the heart of the strategy that the next stage of national development demands. In what follows, we present a vision for the growth of Indian science that can help the strategy succeed, and a road map for India to emerge simultaneously as a global leader in science.
Research & Development Statistics at a Glance 2007 - 08
Findings of the survey for compilation of Research and Development Statistics 2007 - 08 by the Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science & Technology, GoI. A useful database for researchers, planners, and policy makers in India and across the world.
India-EU Study Centres Programme Newsletter
IESCP Newsletter that includes latest information and events of the EU Study Centres in India and India Study Centres in the EU, as well as recent developments in Higher Education in the country as presented by the first MHRD Higher Education Newsletter.
BioTech News A monthly journal from the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India.
The current issue forcuses on scientific approaches adopted by Wildlife Conservation Society for tracking the tiger population and on how DNA based studies can be employed to help in bringing perpetrators of wildlife-related crimes to the book.
BioTrack Newsletter from BioGenesis Euro - Indian Health Cluster with the highlights of the French President's visit to India, an interview with Mr Emmanuel Dupart, Director of France Congress, Paris as well as the updates on biotechnology events in India.
E-Health - Healthcare Technology Resource Guide The journal provides compilation of Healthcare Technology Resource Guide with the aim to bridge the gap between technology solution providers and healthcare deliverers.
