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| Meaningful interaction between industry, academia essential |
| Press Trust of India / Bangalore Aug 28, 2009, 15:46 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 enviroment where opportunities for high-end work existed.
"We cannot decouple reseach 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.
Atre admitted that while there were "pockets of excellence", it all existed in a mosaic of mediocrity.
Currently, though India was witnessing progress, the "velocity of progress was insufficient", he said and called for accelarating the speed of progress in all fields.
India had the talent, intent and dreams but to realise these dreams what was needed was a change in mindset and approach, said Atre adding that the whole business of "finger pointing at each other" should stop.
If India had to build science and technological research that would empower it economically and as world power, there had to be a paradigm shift in all aspects, he said.
The available resources must be used prudently for R and D.Fields where R and D could be focussed included material component devices among others.
P V Acharya, Executive Director, C-Dot said "C-DOT in all these years has been the technology forefront and significantly contributed to the Indian Telecom Network digitization, bridging the digital divide, establishing strong manufacturing infrastructure and employment generation".
Topics ranging from Future trends in satellite communication, rural telecom were among those taken up for discussion at the workshop.
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