This document outlines India's science, technology, and innovation policies from 1958 to the present. It summarizes the key goals of the 2013 STI policy, which aims to increase investment in R&D, encourage private sector participation, promote gender parity, and position India among the top five global scientific powers by 2020. The document also discusses criticism of relying too heavily on the private sector, which prioritizes profits over social goods, and of failing to learn from the shortcomings of past STI policies.

1. Science Technology And Innovation
Policy
Presented By:-
 Heena
 Rahul Mavi
 Md Safdar Aziz
 Dharmender
 Paawan Gupta
 Sudhanshu Verma

2. Timeline
1958 India’s first Scientific Policy Resolution.
1983 New policy. focused on the need to attain
technological competence and self reliance.
2003
This new policy wanted to
1.Bring science and technology together
2.Bring higher investment into R&D to address
national problems.
2013
•Yet another science-tech policy. (made by Department
of Science and Technology).
2010-20 •India has declared this as “decade of innovation”

3.  Released in the Indian Science Congress at Kolkata.
 Use STI for faster, sustainable and more inclusive growth
 Focus on both STI for people and people for STI.
 To position India among the top five global scientific powers
by 2020
 To Encourage private sector to invest in Research and
Development (R&D)
 To Achieve gender parity in S&T. (meaning bring more female
scientists)
STI 2013 Policy

4. Key features of the STI policy

5. Cash power
 Average global investment in Sci-tech-innovation = >1 trillion
dollar (2009)
 While India barely spends around 1% of its GDP in research,
Development, innovation.
 To increase the private sector investment in R&D.

6. Manpower
 They try to attract talented and bright minds towards careers in
science, research and innovation.
 They create environment for women to enter in R&D field.
 They setup inter university centers= bringing together different
disciplines of humanities and science together

7. Business
 Identify sectors of high potential and put more resources into it
for S&T.
 India’s share in high tech products is around 8% globally.
GOVT want to double this.
 Increase R&D intentsity in Service sector, small and medium
scale enterprises.
 The investment in S&T is risky.

8.  To setup a National science, Technology and innovation
foundation. This will help investing in S&T projects via
PPP.
 To setup large scale R&D facilities via PPP mode.
PPP

9.  To modify the Intellectual property rights(IPR) for
social goods.
 green manufacturing
 regulatory and legal framework.
IPR

10. Participation

12.  Govt will give NGOs pivotal role for delivery science-tech-
innovation outputs especially related with rural / grass root
level.
 Lot of new grass root innovations are taking place, but they
do not transform into commercial applications, Govt. will
try to bridge this gap

13. State Governments
 State Governments are important stakeholders, so they will
setup state specific plans under new STI policy and they
will also strengthen the Sci-Tech councils / boards in the
States.
 Centrally developed plans for investments are rigid. they
will provide flexible approach, to fine-tune Five year plan
schemes in response to rapid changes in S&T.

14.  Bilateral and Multilateral cooperation in science, technology
and innovation.
 To setup some international consortia with other countries to
create high cost global infrastructure.
International

15. CRITICISM

16.  When private sector invests in R&D, their aim is always
profitability.
 They’re not much interested in delivery of social goods.
 For example a drug company would rather prefer to do
research on new diabetes related drug / supplement rather
than some new product to combat malnutrition. Same way,
iphone6 vs. clean energy / water recycling.
PRIVATE SECTOR=NO SOCIAL GOOD

17.  Government is already giving many tax reliefs to Indian
corporate so they can invest more in research, buying /
import necessary machinery without hassle etc. yet they do
not invest that much in R&D compared to their American
counterparts.
 We take pride in our IT sector. But our IT sector is mostly
involved in the back-office tasks and software coding for
international giants like Google, Microsoft and Apple. We
don’t have an Indian brand of our own, that can compete
with them.
 Research – Development has long gestation period.
Indian private sector is lazy in research

18.  The new STI policy doesn’t provide any analysis / reason
why the last three policies failed.
No lesson from past

20. 5 Key Steps for STI system of India s
1. Balancing between excellence and relevance.
2. Optimizing resource inputs and maximizing returns from
research .
3.Right prioritizing of returns for investors and inventors
against people inventors against people ––centric priorities
centric priorities
4. Collaboration in a competitive environment with right priority
systems.
5. Affordable and inclusiveness of innovations as against
positioning strongly in the global market.

21. Positioning India in Innovation space.
•Indian innovation system is fragmented and non structured.
•India could emerge as a new global power in affordable innovation
space.
•Challenges of designing models for innovation space in India are many
fold, but could offer substantial rewards if designed well.
•Decentralized innovation structure could become India’s USP with
good planning
•Governments should position an ecosystem for innovation