Integrating R&DA PROPOSAL FOR MANTHAN

Problem Statement

Customer (Industry)

Available Resources

(Higher Education Institutes)

Potential Resources (High Schools)

Regulator (Government)

GAP

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has 2.3% of world researchers and accounts for 1.6% world spending on R&D

shares 3.5% of World research output

contributes to World publications the most highest in agricultural sciences, plant and animal sciences and chemistry (Pharmaceuticals)

has still has low research impact (0.68 compared to world’s average of 1)

researches, but 45% of her research papers receive no citations at all

was at 14th position in terms of Patents application in 2012 and 17th in terms of Patents granted (China is at 2nd in terms of Patents application no. 3 in terms of patents granted)

has 0.03(x10-3) publications per no. of habitants as compared to 1(x10-3) of developed nations

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India…

Proposed Solution

Establishment of independent agency (Non-Governmental Body)

Role of Agency

• To coordinate between stakeholders of R&D Market

• To bring reforms in policies

• To provide research grants

• To review performance of Governmental Research Institutions

Structure

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Regional Head (N)

Regional Head (S)

Regional Head (W)

Regional Head (E)

4 from Industry

4 from Institutions/Colleges

4 from Research Institutions

2 from Ministry of Education

Implementation Model

Customer (Industry)

Available Resources

(Higher Education Institutes)

Potential Resources (High Schools)

Regulator (Government)

• Performance-based grant• Tax rebates for returning NRIs• Funding independent researchers

• Corporate tie-ups• Student stints at Research

Promotion Zones

• Awareness campaigns

• IP reforms• Tax reforms for research spend

• Research Promotion Zones inside factory premises

• Awareness for patent filing

• CSIR on-campus• Awareness campaigns

Vision India R&D - 2020 To promote industries to setup RPZ

To ask government to provide more R&D Budget

Exempting Tax for establishing RPZ and considering sustainable R&D under CSR expenditure by a company partially

Increasing the number of Full Time Equivalents of R&D professionals in a planned and urgent manner

Increasing the PhD outputs with mechanisms for connecting national research institutions and university sector

Joint appointments among university, research and industry sector wherever feasible

Increasing the budget support per scientist and right sizing the project grants

Positioning a measurement system for monitoring publication outputs from public funded research

Positioning a methodology for relating project grant sizes to R&D output indicators R&D funding supported by empowerment systems for decision support

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Vision India R&D - 2020 Further increasing the R&D base

Expanding the Full Time Equivalent R&D professionals

Stimulate research in universities

Enrol latent R&D professional strength in various entities

Right size the project funding and grant sizes

Introduce measurement and transparent reporting systems

Position a well designed Performance Related Incentive System

Invest into large number of established R&D professionals with proven track record

Interconnect research competencies within India and abroad

Interconnect research resource

Position a transparent performance reward system

Promote strategic international S&T cooperation in well chosen areas

Promote academy research and academy industry linkages

Institutionalize the measurement and reporting system for National S&T output indicators

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ChallengesProbable Resistance for Performance Based Evaluation in Research Institutes

Unresponsiveness of Industry towards this Initiative

Poor R&D expenditure to GDP ratio

Improvement in Research quality

To reach out to young talent

To increase full time R&D Professional

Monitoring of publications output by public funded research projects

Evaluation of project grant sizes

Rewarding performance

Increasing the volume share of India in scientific publication

Measuring Success

Yearly review of the impact of the agency through following yardsticks

• No. of research papers published by India

• No. of patents filed and accepted by India

• Ranking of India in citation index

• No. of researchers / no. of inhabitants in India

• Volume share of industry in research publications

ReferencesIndian R&D Scenario by Dr. A.V.Ramarao

Bibliometric study of India's Scientific Publication Outputs by Department of Science and Technology,Government of India,New Delhi

http://jugaadtoinnovation.blogspot.in/2013/07/indias-research-output-quantity.html

http://india.gov.in/topics/science-technology/research-development

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_and_technology_in_India

Submitted by

Swapnil Gaur

Stephanie Manderscheid

Samriddhi Sharma

Rohit Srivastava

Aravind Suresh

PGCIM 2013-14

SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai