Money's worth?

Investments in the research and development (r&d) in India has grown from Rs 760.5 crore in 1980 to Rs 24,200 crore (as per 2008-2009 budget allocation). This is 0.8 per cent of the gdp

From 1996 to 2006, expenditure has increased by 180 per cent. But the number of research publications increased by only 95 per cent

• Publications on medicines and engineering, though registered a growth of over 120 per cent, the overall output is low
• Research on issues related to public health and energy receive scant attention; 5,447 publications (2.18 per cent) released during 1996-2006
• Most productive research areas are medicine, chemistry, physics, agriculture & biological science, engineering, biochemistry, genetics & molecular biology and the material science

• Works on physical sciences, health science and life science are low in China

• Publications on health science in the us is 35.38 per cent and that in the uk is 37.73 per cent
• Publications on life science in the us is 33.44 percent and that in the uk is 33.31 per cent

• About 85 per cent of India's total publications come from 7 states Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Delhi, Karnataka, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh
• 35 institutions contribute 47 per cent of the research works