Science in India (and other discussions)

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The following infographics have been taken from an article (http://www.nature.com/news/india-by-the-numbers-1.17519) published in the journal Nature (http://www.nature.com/), in May 2015.


https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.26083.1431421629!/image/nature-india-investment.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/nature-india-investment.png


https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.26238.1432289874!/image/nature-india-map-amend-2.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/nature-india-map-amend-2.png


https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.26082.1431425658!/image/nature-india-patents.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/nature-india-patents.png


https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.26079.1431421455!/image/nature-india-publications.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/nature-india-publications.png


https://www.nature.com/news/polopoly_fs/7.26080.1431421548!/image/nature-india-workforce.png_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/nature-india-workforce.png



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https://innovate.mygov.in/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/mygov18_1507722752.jpg (https://innovate.mygov.in/sih2018/)

"Smart India Hackathon 2018 (https://innovate.mygov.in/sih2018/)"

From the website:


"Smart India Hackathon 2018 is a non-stop digital product development competition, where problems are posed to technology students for innovative solutions. It:

Harnesses creativity & expertise of students
Sparks institute-level hackathons
Builds funnel for ‘Startup India’ campaign
Crowdsources solutions for improving governance and quality of life
Provides opportunity to citizens to provide innovative solutions to India’s daunting problems

Smart India Hackathon 2018 will have 2 sub-editions – Software as well as Hardware:

Software Edition will be 36 hour software product development competition, similar in concept to Smart India Hackathon 2017
The new Hardware Edition will be a hackathon where teams will be work for 5 straight days and build their hardware solutions. This competition would be limited to only 5 nodal centers with 20-25 teams each"



SUBMISSION OPEN: 16TH OCT 2017 - 15TH DEC 2017


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http://indiainnovates.in/landingpage/imgs/iigp_final.png (https://www.youtube.com/user/INDIANINNOVATION/videos)


"Technologies for Commercialization (http://indiainnovates.in/technologieslist.aspx)"


Video clips (https://www.youtube.com/user/INDIANINNOVATION/videos) on YouTube





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All 'Hubbers are invited to share your thoughts, ideas, and/or any other input that you may wish to offer.



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"2017 in news: The science events that shaped the year (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-017-08493-x)"



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"Nature’s 10: Ten people who mattered this year. (https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-017-07763-y/index.html)"



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"These are the top 10 emerging technologies of 2017 (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/these-are-the-top-10-emerging-technologies-of-2017/)"



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"Nature INDEX: Country output[s]: India (https://www.natureindex.com/country-outputs/india)"



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"India International Science Festival 2017 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoeGYrfbU9g)"

"Program Guide (http://scienceindiafest.org/downloads/Final-program-guide-book.pdf)"



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"Digital Police Portal":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkLarbyrQvY



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"Scientific India":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTSILNb7nIo



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"The World's Future MEGAPROJECTS (2017-2040's)":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiQ874ZuIno



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"Indian scientists urged to speak out about pseudoscience (http://www.nature.com/news/indian-scientists-urged-to-speak-out-about-pseudoscience-1.22957)"



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"India's Science, Technology & Innovation Profile (http://www.oecd.org/sti/outlook/e-outlook/sticountryprofiles/india.htm)"



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"UNESCO SCIENCE REPORT – Towards 2030 (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0023/002354/235406e.pdf#page=621)"

The report on India is from pages 598 to 619.



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"The Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/sti-policy.pdf)"

Government of India, New Delhi, January 2013



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"Policy brief: Science, Technology and Innovation policy in India (https://indigoprojects.eu/object/news/183/attach/INDIGO_Policy_Brochure_STI_policy_View.pdf) – Some recent changes" (2016)

V. V. Krishna, Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi



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"RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT STATISTICS AT A GLANCE – 2017-18 (http://www.nstmis-dst.org/statistics-Glance-2017-18-2.pdf)"

DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, MINISTRY OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY, GOVERNMENT OF INDIA, NEW DELHI-110016 (INDIA), December 2017



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"This Indian state produces more wind power than Sweden or Denmark (https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/this-indian-state-produces-more-wind-power-than-sweden-or-denmark/)"

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM, 21 Feb 2018



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‘Searching for Saraswati’

By Shubhodeep Pal - The Hindu, July 7, 2018

"There can perhaps be no better (or more ironical) testimony to this age of unreason than the [Indian] government-sanctioned search for a mythical river named after the Hindu goddess of knowledge. 'Searching for Saraswati' [an Op-Docs documentary film commissioned by The New York Times] releases this week."

"In 2014, the Prime Minister claimed that Hindu god Ganesha had undergone plastic surgery; according to Rajnath Singh, Heisenberg’s renowned Uncertainty Principle has its provenance in the Vedas. The Saraswati project is an extension of the same propaganda disguised as historical fact."

https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/searching-for-saraswati-is-the-first-indian-documentary-to-be-selected-for-nyts-op-docs-project/article24359487.ece?homepage=true

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"National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/)"



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"Immerse (https://www.iitm.ac.in/sites/default/files/Immerse_2015_C.pdf)" – The IIT Madras Research Magazine – Edition 3



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Take a look at the following videos and check out which one has received the most appreciation (i.e., the highest number of views, likes, and comments):








https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC1zwW2L30



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmvFfapOqNw



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e8KrhZ4z9o



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AfLdiloRAs



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkkyaodksT4







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Regaining respect: on Indian Science Congress

By R. Prasad - The Hindu, January 9, 2019

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/regaining-respect/article25943533.ece?homepage=true

"In a resolution, it [The Indian Science Congress Association] decided to obtain in advance the abstracts of the lectures of all speakers, including those speaking at the Children’s Science Congress. “We will not vet but screen the abstracts, and not allow pseudoscience to be presented. We will also have a person from the Association at every session and remove the speakers from the dais if they go beyond the purview of the submitted abstract,” said Premendu P. Mathur, General Secretary (Scientific Activities), ISCA."

"While the standard of the Congress has been in steady decline for several years, since 2015 it has seen questionable comments by speakers glorifying India’s ancient scientific achievements. The stage was set in October 2014 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, when he cited the examples of Karna and Ganesha to wrongly claim that reproductive genetics and cosmetic surgery existed in India thousands of years ago. At the 2018 Science Congress, Union Minister of Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan claimed that Stephen Hawking once said the Vedas had a theory superior to Albert Einstein’s e=mc2. The credibility of science was also eroded when Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development Satyapal Singh claimed last year at an event that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution of man was “scientifically wrong”. It might be more than coincidence that Professor Rao felt emboldened to claim that the Kauravas were test tube babies and that India possessed knowledge about guided missiles centuries ago. On his part, Dr. Krishnan rejected Einstein’s theory of relativity, Newton’s theory of gravity as well as Hawking’s theories on black holes."

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Are we undermining our scientific temper?

YES! By Jayant Murthy

NO! By A. Jayakumar

IT'S COMPLICATED! By Sundar Sarukkai

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/are-we-undermining-our-scientific-temper/article26082694.ece?homepage=true

[The Hindu - January 25, 2019]

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"Time management for scientists (https://www.nature.com/collections/hdgwsjjyjh)"



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"Health System for a New India: Building Blocks (https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2019-11/NitiAayogBook_compressed.pdf)"

Potential Pathways to Reform

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"India Innovation Index 2019 (https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2019-10/India_Innovation_Index_Report_2019.pdf)"



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Chennai engineer's Chandrayaan-2 discovery boosts citizen science in India...

https://english.manoramaonline.com/news/nation/2019/12/03/chennai-engineer-s-chandrayaan-2-discovery-boosts-citizen-scienc.html

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Raagadevan, thanks for your posts! I especially liked the article "Are we undermining our scientific temper?" - interesting article, thanks very much! Please continue with your input!! And if you can, invite others also!!

I have to admit, I don't have any personal knowledge or experience of Sci/Tech research, whether in India or anywhere else. But I'd like to learn!!

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Raagadevan, thanks for your posts! I especially liked the article "Are we undermining our scientific temper?" - interesting article, thanks very much! Please continue with your input!! And if you can, invite others also!!

I have to admit, I don't have any personal knowledge or experience of Sci/Tech research, whether in India or anywhere else. But I'd like to learn!!

Thank you WriterV! I too do not have any direct involvement in scientific research but always had a fascination for various branches of science. When I come across news items (like the one I am posting below) where ignorant folks make pseudoscientific claims about everything under (and around!) the sun, I try to post them here. We need some comic relief in life once in a while! :)

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Speaking Sanskrit keeps diabetes, cholesterol at bay, claims BJP MP Ganesh Singh, quoting U.S.-based academic institution

PTI/The Hindu - December 13, 2019

BJP MP Ganesh Singh on Thursday claimed that as per a research done by a U.S.-based academic institution, speaking Sanskrit language on a daily basis boosts the nervous system and keeps diabetes and cholesterol at bay... Participating in a debate on the Sanskrit universities bill, he also claimed that according to a research by U.S. space research organisation NASA, if computer programming is done in Sanskrit, it will be flawless... More than 97% of the languages in the world, including few Islamic languages, are based on Sanskrit, Mr. Singh said.

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Indian cows’ milk is rich in gold, claims Modi ally

The Times, UK:

Cow’s milk may be falling out of fashion in the West but India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party can’t get enough of it. Dilip Ghosh, the BJP president in West Bengal, told a rally this week: “Desi cows have a hump on their back. When sunlight falls on the hump it produces gold. That is why the milk of desi cow is yellowish, lightly golden. It contains gold.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/indian-cows-milk-is-rich-in-gold-claims-modi-ally-9dtgpq3hz

India Today:

https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/indian-cow-milk-contains-gold-internet-rips-dilip-ghosh-apart-1615904-2019-11-05

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"The scientific events that shaped the decade (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03857-x)"



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"A framework for mission-oriented innovation policy roadmapping for the SDGs: The case of plastic-free oceans (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/public-purpose/sites/public-purpose/files/a_framework_for_mission-oriented_policy_roadmapping_for_the_sdgs_final.pdf )"



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"A Nature India special on engineering research around COVID-19 (https://www.natureasia.com/en/nindia/pdf/special-issues/14/COVID-19-Engineering-Solutions.pdf)"



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"CSIR’s Societal Platform for Public (https://innovateindia.mygov.in/csir-societal-platform/#list-item-3)"




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"Clusters and Innovation Districts: Lessons from the United States Experience (https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/es_20171208_bailyclustersandinnovation.pdf)" - December 2017 (.pdf, 1.1 MB)




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"LESSONS FROM THE US - Innovation Policy (https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/73641/1/Owen_Lessons%20from%20the%20US%20innovation%20poli cy_published_2017%20LSERO.pdf)" - March 2017 (.pdf, 941 KB)




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"Industrial Policy – Lessons from the USA (https://globaleurope.eu/globalization/industrial-policy-us/)" (January 2020)




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"Industrial Policy – Lessons from China (https://globaleurope.eu/globalization/china-industrial-policy/)" (February 2020)




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"4 Innovation Lessons from The US Military (https://industrytoday.com/4-innovation-lessons-from-the-us-military/)" (July 2018)




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"From Industrial Policy to Innovation Strategy (https://csis-website-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/publication/200901_Gerstel_InnovationStrategy_FullReport_FINAL _0.pdf)" - September 2020 (.pdf; 3.0 MB)




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"A Practitioner’s Guide to Innovation Policy (https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/ar/158861581492462334/pdf/A-Practitioner-s-Guide-to-Innovation-Policy-Instruments-to-Build-Firm-Capabilities-and-Accelerate-Technological-Catch-Up-in-Developing-Countries.pdf)" - World Bank Group, January 2020 (.pdf; 2.7 MB)




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India's Semiconductor Failure (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isBYV6QWDIo)




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India's Pharmaceutical Success (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkylI-78U6c)




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"New crop of Indian scientists is world class (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/all-that-matters/new-crop-of-indian-scientists-is-world-class-they-deserve-attention-funding-says-indian-scientist-dr-archana-sharma/articleshow/92925188.cms)"




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"A New Lens For Innovation In New India - Introducing the Techno-Commercial Readiness and Market Maturity Matrix (https://niti.gov.in/sites/default/files/2023-07/TCRM-Matrix-Framework-FAD3.pdf)"




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"Why Great Innovation Needs Great Marketing (https://hbr.org/2019/02/why-great-innovation-needs-great-marketing)" - Harvard Business Review, February 20, 2019




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"Understanding Unsuccessful Innovation (https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2021/ncses21201/#chp10)" - National Science Foundation, September 2, 2021




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"Emerging technology hubs of India (https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/in/Documents/strategy/in-s-o-emerging-technology-hubs-of-india-15.09-final-noexp.pdf)" - Deloitte, August 2023




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