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Quantum shift: On private industry and national research spending

August 5, 2026 admin

The Department of Science and Technology’s latest figures on India’s research profile record a milestone. In 2023-24, private industry accounted for 51.8% of national research spending — a first in India’s history — overtaking all tiers of government combined for the first time. Moreover, industry now employs more core researchers than government institutions. Transport firms…

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Sustainability science for FMCGs – The Hindu

October 27, 2024 admin

The Anusandhan National Research Foundation and the BioE3 (Biotechnology for Economy, Environment and Employment) policy are the right ways of moving towards a bio-based economy linked to a strong partnership between academia and industry. Photo: serb.gov.in India’s new PPP initiative, the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), established to promote research and development, and the recently…

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New science awards, old political project

September 30, 2024 admin

Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Getty Images In 2023, the government did away with a bevy of awards conferred to scientists by the science ministries and their various institutes and departments. The decision was polarising but many, including outside the government, argued in favour of the move saying there were just too many awards…

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No Indian industry in Board of revamped National Research Foundation

July 3, 2024 admin

The executive and governing boards of the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) — a high-level body conceived to give strategic direction to scientific research in India — has no representation from Indian industry, suggests a perusal of the list of members made public by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) earlier this week. There…

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New science research board ‘takes effect’, Science Minister

February 6, 2024 admin

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh in Parliament on February 06, 2024. The Centre on Monday said that provisions of the newly constituted research board, Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF), had come into effect and announced the appointment of Abhay Karandikar, Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST), as interim CEO…

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