Is India lagging in inventions and R & D ? and if so what are the reasons ?

Question

There is a difference in Indians inventing at another location. For the above question let us stick to only those done in India.

Answer 1

India is lagging in r&d because, most of the young proffesionals in india are washed abroad by mnc's, and indian companies are not having the pations to go for reserch, they are just coping the idea frome forign products , iIndia having a good pool of proffessional but if they are worked in indian companies, theire wings are clipped

Answer 2

The main reason for this can mistaken to be brain drain. But actually it is not. If we see closely, we find low investment as the primary reason for your question.

It is a well known fact and even ytou elaborate it in your question that Indians abroad may be known for a lot of inventions or discoveries...we have quite a few examples of NRI Nobel Laureates.

And even if someone were to dispute that even if investment were there who would do the research here in India as we end up losing our talent to the more oped nations, i suggest that just because the investment is lacking, the pays are low and the facilities are not there (top it all with a dash of corruption and red tapism prevalant here) and we reach where my answer to your question had started from.

However, the wheel is turning fast, and atleast quite a few Indian multinationals have now started investing in R&D facilities. Though, most of them are nowhere close to the percentage of revenue standards followed by their competitors abroad in more developed nations, they have taken the first step. Indian companies are hesitant to invest huge amounts in research as the activity has long gestation periods and the failure rate is high and most of the Indian corporates do not have either the resources or the apetite for that kind of investments.

Thus it is still some time that the R&D activity in India will take off as the government is busy taking care of the "aam aadmi"

Answer 3

Not necessarily. Not all discoveries require prolonged R&D efforts and tons of funds. I know of a farmer who has made over 20 inventions to improve farm productivity and one bio-informatics agency that has a unique modelling technique for drug discovery which the western world is desperate to copy. I can give more examples. And there must be many, many similar cases known to others. A lot of innovations and inventions happen at ISSRO & DRDO - but are not made public always due to several reasons. The real problem, I think, lies elsewhere. In the west, almost all inventions are patented. Hence these are known publicly. Unfortunately, in India the patenting regime is very archaic and cumbersome. The glaring loop-holes of India's patent rules is best illustrated by the patenting of basmati rice by a US based agency. Can you imagine it?! The govt. is trying to do some thing on the patent regulations, but as usual, is very slow.

Answer 4

yes, india lagging in inventions and r&d. because the inventions canbe made by creative thinking. this kind of thinking arises by encouragement. the mindset of the people in india rich in discouragement rather encouragement. the evil of jealous rooted in indian minds. if an individual attaining success he will be criticized rather appreciated. this kind of mind set should be changed among indians. its a blind fact but there may be an exception always. Indians are keen in reducing familarity of a successfull persons.

this is the primary reason why india lagging in R&D.

Answer 5

in short- its MONEY ..
gud people wud stay where the money and satisfaction is.... gud company wud pay if they have gud cash flows- R& D requires lot of investsments... in garib country like us ....not possible currently.in next 15 yrs time.. i think there might be more R&D exoenditure once we stabilise ..

Answer 6

because now days market is not stable anymore because foreign parties are getting out some-some!