National Innovation Programs: The Challenge from India

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National Innovation Programs The Challenge from
India

• Roundtable on Technology, Innovation, and
  American Primacy
• May 14, 2008
• Adam Segal
• Council on Foreign Relations
• asegal_at_cfr.org

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Indian Innovation

• No one national innovation system
• Technological, industrial, and regional diversity
• Role of globalization
• What type of innovation?
• New to the world - islands of excellence in
  biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, automotive
  components, information technology
• New to the market-innovations in process and
  organizational models. Smartest ideas will be in
  the deployment not the development of technology.

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Inputs and Outputs
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Source NASSCOM
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Distribution of RD
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Source Unleashing Indias Innovation, World
Bank, 2007
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Source Unleashing Indias Innovation, World
Bank, 2007
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Investment-11th Five Year Plan (2007-2012)

• Overall increase of 400 for science and
  technology from 10th to 11th plan
• Increase RD expenditures from 0.8 to 1.3 GDP.
  Goal of 2
• Funding for basic science to triple current level
  of 500 million funding for Dept of
  Biotechnology 1.5 billion

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Big Push on Education

• 11th Five Year Plan 760 million
• 2 more ISERS (3 already approved)
• 8 additional IITs (16)
• 7 additional IIMs (14)
• National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education
  and Research (6)
• 20 additional IIITs
• 30 Universities

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Government policy

• Basic Research
• SERC or other NSF-like Fund, FIST
• Growth of Public-Private Partnerships in RD
• TIFAC-CORE (Centres of Relevance and Excellence)
• New Millennium Indian Technology Leadership
  Initiative (CSIR)
• Society for Innovation and Development/IISc
• Strengthening of Innovation Strategy
• STEP/TBI TePP, HGT, PATSER, SBIRI, and others

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Notes from the Field

• Public sector science not yet touched by
  economic concerns.
• Lots of start-ups but no scale.
• Knowledge beyond technology
• Too much success in service
• Government knows it needs to help, but doesnt
  know how.