'Make in India' slogan requires Invent in India: Nobel Laureate Prof Gross
Updated: Jan 06, 2016 11:38:56am
Mysore, Jan 6 (KNN) India has enormous potential and could do better by more investments in basic sciences and research and development, Nobel Laureate Professor David J Gross said.
While addressing the 103rd Indian Science Congress here last evening, he pointed that for Make in India, its products will have to be competitive as there are already superior and cheaper goods being manufactured in Korea and other countries.
Gross said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ slogan requires Invent in India for newer technologies, and for that you have to ‘Discover in India’.
He emphasized that science should also be pursued for sheer curiosity and said that a nation which did not encourage its youth to pursue basic science would lose brilliant minds to other nations where they were encouraged.
The Nobel Laureate said that China has overtaken the US in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last year and India is projected to do so by 2045.
“In 2000, both India and China invested 0.8 per cent of their GDP in science and research. By 2010, China’s investment had risen to close to two percent, while India’s was still at 0.8. Now, India has moved up to 0.9 while China’s investment is 2.8 per cent. Similarly, Brazil, another emerging economy invests over 2 per cent of GDP in science and research, South Korea 3.7. Most European countries too invest around 3.7 percent,” he said.
He felt that the Indian scientific and research apparatus was bureaucratic, rigid and ineffective and not up to standards of a country that would like to increase its investments.
“Lots have to change in how you manage science. I understand politicians; they are not sure how the money allocated will be spent. It is up to you (scientific community) now to change how those funds will be used,” he asserted.
Prof Gross said that he would like to witness India progressing well in years to come.
Professor Serge Haroche, Noble prize winner in Physics, while addressing the event emphasized thet advances in basic sciences would be essential for applications. (With PIB Inputs)
While addressing the 103rd Indian Science Congress here last evening, he pointed that for Make in India, its products will have to be competitive as there are already superior and cheaper goods being manufactured in Korea and other countries.
Gross said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ slogan requires Invent in India for newer technologies, and for that you have to ‘Discover in India’.
He emphasized that science should also be pursued for sheer curiosity and said that a nation which did not encourage its youth to pursue basic science would lose brilliant minds to other nations where they were encouraged.
The Nobel Laureate said that China has overtaken the US in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) last year and India is projected to do so by 2045.
“In 2000, both India and China invested 0.8 per cent of their GDP in science and research. By 2010, China’s investment had risen to close to two percent, while India’s was still at 0.8. Now, India has moved up to 0.9 while China’s investment is 2.8 per cent. Similarly, Brazil, another emerging economy invests over 2 per cent of GDP in science and research, South Korea 3.7. Most European countries too invest around 3.7 percent,” he said.
He felt that the Indian scientific and research apparatus was bureaucratic, rigid and ineffective and not up to standards of a country that would like to increase its investments.
“Lots have to change in how you manage science. I understand politicians; they are not sure how the money allocated will be spent. It is up to you (scientific community) now to change how those funds will be used,” he asserted.
Prof Gross said that he would like to witness India progressing well in years to come.
Professor Serge Haroche, Noble prize winner in Physics, while addressing the event emphasized thet advances in basic sciences would be essential for applications. (With PIB Inputs)
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