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‘Free Indian science’: Responses, rebuttals and retrenchments
In the April 3 issue of Nature, Joseph Mathai and Andrew Robinson published a Comment on the afflictions of scientific research in India – and found the interference of bureaucracy to be chief among all ills. Most of the writers’ concerns were very … Continue reading
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Tagged Current Science, funding, JNCASR, patenting intensity, research agenda, Science in India, scientific R&D
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‘Poverty first, Mars next’ is a non-idea
The government has mismanaged scientific research to the point of the people thinking its only goals are to alleviate poverty. Continue reading
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Tagged autonomy, bureaucracy, engineering, GM crops, grants allocation, nuclear physics, research and development, Research Funding Organisation, Science in India, telecommunication
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