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Education and R&D gap between China and India

This is a good article published on IndianExpress. It lists and points out the huge gap between China and India in the education and science and technology R&D. The source of the article: http://www.indianexpress.com/story/12493.html We need the best for the brightest Arun Shourie Posted online: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 at 0000 hrs IST An inverse snobbery [...]

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India’s scientific talent pool much smaller than China’s

Indians and many of India’s propagandas often say that India is a scientific and techological power. But this claim can hardly be tested by real numbers. Of the 14 countries spends on research and development, India is the only country who spent single digit of US dollars per capita on R&D. India has [...]

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India way behind China, world in innovation

New Delhi: India had a meagre 6,406 patents as compared to 182,385 in China and the world average of 846.71 patents in force in 2004, with the total number of patent filings by Indians per million population standing at 3.40 in 2004-05 as compared to the world average of 250.72 worked out [...]

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