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Towards a Socially Consistent Science and Technology Policy


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The development of science and technology (S&T) in India is widely believed to have not quite lived up to the high expectations in the Scientific Policy Resolution of 1958. To paraphrase a major scientist, it has had tall peaks towering over some much more modest achievements. This article traces some of these shortcomings to the divergence between the direction which the S&T policies have advocated and the socio-economic road the country has taken. Based on an analysis of this divergence, the article argues for a new Science and Technology Policy based on a much broader conception of technology.

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Innovations, Policy Resolution, Science, Technology.
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Narendar Pani
National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bengaluru 560 012, India

Abstract


The development of science and technology (S&T) in India is widely believed to have not quite lived up to the high expectations in the Scientific Policy Resolution of 1958. To paraphrase a major scientist, it has had tall peaks towering over some much more modest achievements. This article traces some of these shortcomings to the divergence between the direction which the S&T policies have advocated and the socio-economic road the country has taken. Based on an analysis of this divergence, the article argues for a new Science and Technology Policy based on a much broader conception of technology.

Keywords


Innovations, Policy Resolution, Science, Technology.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv110%2Fi9%2F1624-1629