Decline of open-ended research

Published on: 2006-6-10

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Decline of open-ended research

2006-06-10T10:55:00

An article in `Current Science' bemoans the decline of open ended research in India. A few notable observations: ...But when we introduce a measure for quality, say the number of citations per paper, we quickly drop into #119 (out of 149 top performing countries in the field of Science and Technology) Our R&D expenditure per capita is 1/100th of South Korea's