India Eyes R&D's shift to Asia

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 19 January 2012, 23:52 IST   |    1 Comments
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China and India Compared in R&D:

Since 2000, China had doubled and by far exceeded the number of doctoral degrees awarded in engineering; and according to the figures compiled by Thomson Reuters for the Financial Times, the number of peer-reviewed paper publications by Chinese researchers has seen a dramatic increase of 64-times over the past 30 years. The past 5 years alone has seen China’s output of scientific literature increase by 80 percent, while the US, (which is currently the leader in this field), only grew by 5 percent in the same period.

 

 

India is one of the top 10 countries with the greatest output in the field of publications, and is growing at 14 percent, one of the highest rates of growth in the world. The country, however, lags behind China in terms of academic supremacy, the latter being a threat to the US even in that regard. The report also stated that from 2006 to 2010, China’s published patent applications increased by 16.7 percent and the country led the world in the volume of patents filed.