Sponsored R & D in India: The project sponsoring pattern and main outcome of projects sponsored by major central departments/agencies

Authors
Citation
R. Chetal et A. Raj, Sponsored R & D in India: The project sponsoring pattern and main outcome of projects sponsored by major central departments/agencies, SCIENTOMETR, 43(3), 1998, pp. 393-421
Citations number
5
Language
INGLESE
art.tipo
Article
Categorie Soggetti
Library & Information Science
Journal title
SCIENTOMETRICS
ISSN journal
0138-9130 → ACNP
Volume
43
Issue
3
Year of publication
1998
Pages
393 - 421
Database
ISI
SICI code
0138-9130(199811/12)43:3<393:SR&DII>2.0.ZU;2-2
Abstract
This paper examines the project sponsoring pattern and the outcome of extra mural R&D with respect to the projects sponsored by country's eleven centra l agencies during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period. The outcome considered are: contribution of R&D support to development of R&D facilities at the r ecipient institutions, creation of employment through project posts, develo pment of new technologies, quantum and quality of research publications and . generation of doctoral thesis. The paper concludes that sponsored R&D has largely remained one-way flow of funds to a preferred set of institutions (as perceived by each sponsoring agency) and the outcome of the R&D have al so remained unexamined by the respective funding agencies. The paper advoca tes development of a monitoring system which would help in enhancing the ut ilisation of sponsored R&D and its overall impact on science, society and e conomy.