food for thought. a bit of a counterpoint to what dr gangan prathap said about india being 163 years behind china.
do we need science or do we need technology? actually we need both. but technology and innovation give the more immediate benefits to the people on the ground.
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From: Shahryar
Science declines but technology advances
By Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar
Brilliant scientists like CNR Rao, Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister, can be dead wrong. They say that Indian science and technology are in crisis. Nonsense, technology has never been in better shape.
Rao complains that scientists and engineers are leaving universities and government labs for private sector companies (mainly in software). High attrition of scientific staff is hobbling Indian space and defence programmes. Promising scientists are migrating.
Brilliant scientists like CNR Rao, Scientific Advisor to the Prime Minister, can be dead wrong. They say that Indian science and technology are in crisis. Nonsense, technology has never been in better shape.
Rao complains that scientists and engineers are leaving universities and government labs for private sector companies (mainly in software). High attrition of scientific staff is hobbling Indian space and defence programmes. Promising scientists are migrating.
India's share of published scientific papers is falling: Rao says it is down to barely 3% against China's 12%. In the first half of the 20th century, CV Raman won the Nobel Prize, and SN Bose along with Einstein devised the Bose-Einstein statistics. Nothing similar happens now.
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Yes - definitely the Japanese became rich after the war - by applying technology and application research (less basic research)
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