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| 'Adopt indigenous tech to boost research' |
| Press Trust Of India / Chennai/ Bangalore Aug 29, 2009, 00:42 IST |
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Calling for a ‘meaningful interaction’ between industry and academia, Dr V K Atre, former scientific advisor to Defence Minister, today said both should create an atmosphere that would attract the best and accelerate the speed of India’s progress in various fields,including telecom.
Though India had no dearth of talent, very few of this talent was drawn towards R and D or academia due to various factors including salaries.
“We must find a method of attracting this talent”, he said including taking a look at drawing up attractive pay packages and creating an environment where opportunities for high-end work existed.
“We cannot decouple research and industry”, he said.
Elaborating on industry-academia interaction, he lamented that many a times despite the presence of indigenous technology and products, the same were imported by the industry.
Adopting indigenously developed technology and products was imperative to boost R and D, he asserted.
“We must have faith in Indian technology”, he said.
He also said the current number of institutions of higher learning to promote R and D was insufficient and called for setting up of more such institutions like IITs and IIScs.
He was delivering the keynote address on ‘Challenges to Indigenous R and D’ at a technical workshop organised by Centre for Development Telematics (C-Dot) as part of its silver jubilee.
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