From Yahoo India News - Tue, Jul 21 05:39 AM
"China has a policy in place for R&D; we don't," Natampally said, adding that India could move up the value chain faster if even a small percentage of its engineering graduates went into research.
The small numbers of PhDs and the lack of government incentives for India's fledgling R&D sector are blunting the country's edge, analysts warn.
Rival China has already pulled ahead with more than 1,100 R&D centres compared to less than 800 in India, despite lingering concerns about rule of law and intellectual property rights."
"India produces about 300,000 computer science graduates a year. Yet it produces only about 100 computer science PhDs, a small fraction of the 1,500-2,000 that get awarded in the United States, or China, every year." [Note: ~ 60% of the U.S. PhD's granted go to foreign nationals, not U.S. citizens]
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