India emerging (maybe) as major R&D center.(PERSPECTIVES: Views and News of the Current Research-Technology Management Scene)

From: Research-Technology Management | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

In September 2007, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences held a two-day meeting entitled, "The Dragon and the Elephant: Understanding the Development of Innovation Capacity in China and India." Why was India accorded equal billing with China? Certainly, China's phenomenal economic growth and huge investments in R&D have positioned it to play a much more influential role in the coming decade than in the recent past. Less talked about is India's phenomenal economic growth rate that is drawing even with China. India is predicted by some to surpass China in the next year or two to ...

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