Technology and Innovation

Objectives

  • India should be among the top 50 countries in the Global Innovation Index by 2022-23.
  • Five of our scientific research institutions should be amongst the top 100 in the world.
  • India should aim to spend at least 2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) on R&D with equal contributions from the public and private sector.

Current Situations

  • India has become a major destination for outsourced R&D activities. India currently has more than 1,100 R&D centres set up by multinational companies (MNCs) such as IBM, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Lupin, Wockhardt, etc.
  • 37 Indian scientists from nine Indian institutions played a key role in the discovery ....

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