India and the future of science

India might be the 12th largest economy but its place in the scientific world may be at risk, according to a leading Indian scientist who delivered a public lecture at UNSW.

Speaking about science in the past, present and future, Professor CNR Rao warned that India isn't producing enough PhDs to power its continuing contribution to scientific research and technology development.

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[royalfreaklion]

egotistic bastard c n r rao. india needs to get rid of people like him if it wants to make progress in science

[nanoquanta]

@manofadventure

Prof Rao has shown from his own efforts how one can built strong scientific culture with more than 50 years of dedicated research. He has published more than 1500 papers and several books and many more achievements. This man might be old but his enthusiasm for science is unquestionably extraordinary than youngsters. so if he says...it should be taken with sincere spirit...

[rakeshk123]

Prof. Rao seems particularly disgusted with the IIT graduates...I must say that he speaks nothing but the truth about them.

[manofadventure]

lol an old delusional indian guy talking about india innovation? lol the biggest joke of the century. the top 5 patents producer of the world is 1st U.S 50,000+ annually, Japan, germany and China 12,000+ anually, and South Korea 8,000+ annually```

and at the very bottum of the table where india lies which produces less than 1,000 patents annually and on top of that 70% of the patents were owned by foreign entities`

[avgas115]

India will not go anywhere. Too much corruption and than there is the cast system. So far, for example, all the Indian drug industry is doing copying drugs from the Swiss, French and US companies. Tata and Infosys are exploiting cheap labour and exporting it to the US. Not really a country to invest in ...

[anant14]

@linuxguru1968 ,

I would agree with you on the visa point....both Americans...... India would benefit a lot if the US expels Indian origin PhDs(especialy in Scinece & Engineering) from US.... at least the recently graduated ones......

Most Americans are not going for science jobs because of cheap foreign Post Docs.....

[linuxguru1968]

@anant14 Not really, This biggest producer of patents for pharmacology is stil the National Institute of Health and universities in the US and Europe. Only pantents related to testing and proving drugs come from India. I guess because it is easier to find human guinnie pigs there.

[anant14]

@linuxguru1968 ,

The maximum number of patents from INdia are filed in the area of Chemistry /Pahrmaceutical/Biochemistry..­.......

Altough most of the pharrma companies do contractual reserch but still it is one of our major exports and our pharma industry has a lot of innovations to its credit......

[linuxguru1968]

@nanoquanta what "gains" are you talking about? what is india not getting and why does it mattter?

[nanoquanta]

@linuxguru1968

no gain is nothing but loss...when we will understand this?