[Wigsat-l] Just Published, NISTADS Report "India: Science and Technology 2008"

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Just Published, NISTADS Report "India: Science and Technology 2008"

India: Science and Technology 2008.
Publisher: National Institute of Science, Technology & Development  
Studies (NISTADS), New Delhi, 2009.

The country is entering the age of knowledge when increasing returns  
would be ubiquitous. The democratic governance structures of this  
country have evolved, over the course of six decades, sets of complex  
institutions systems and practices that bind or otherwise relate S&T  
to the other spheres. With about four thousand research and  
development organizations, large organized systems of knowledge  
production, millions of knowledge-workers and an even larger number of  
citizens trying to engage in knowledge-based activities ranging from  
agriculture through semi-skilled workers to industrial workers,  
coupled with the fact of the country being especially gifted with  
immense diversity in natural resources - the opportunity set of  
potential outcomes are immense and invigorating.

The long twentieth century in Indian S&T based developmental  
experiments, in particular at grass roots, has thrown up immense  
volumes of data, facts and artifacts. A crucial issue emerges. The  
country very badly needs a strong mechanism to capture data related to  
S&T and innovation right from the regulatory or executive levels to  
source-points where S&T output or innovations get generated.

This Report presents several facets of Indian S&T. In lieu of  
attempting the development of a set of traditionally known indicators  
of S&T, the attempt here has been to capture multiple facets of Indian  
economy and society where S&T makes contributions. With unstated  
theoretical bases, contributors presented research conclusions in the  
form of several portrayals. Given the fact that S&T interfacing the  
economy and society has very large dimensions this Report could take  
up only a handful. Such a collage offers albeit a picture of where  
Indian S&T is located.

The report is the first of its kind from this country. It is targeted  
at a wide readership ranging from policy makers and advisors to  
academic readers as well as the common person. The contents of the  
report are:
* S&T Human Resources
* S&T Financing
* S&T Structure, Infrastructure and Public Space
* S&T and Industry
* S&T Output and Patents
* S&T for Rural India and Inclusive Growth

Further Details: http://cssp-jnu.blogspot.com/2009/09/india-science-and-technology-2008.html

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Anup Kumar Das
New Delhi, India
http://anupkumardas.blogspot.com/
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