Research & Development(R&D): India
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Research output improves 2008-12
49% rise in PhDs in 3 years
Jump In India’s Contribution To World’s Research Publications: Tharoor
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
The Times of India 2013/08/16
New Delhi: Poor research output of students is considered one of the biggest drawbacks of Indian higher education. But government claims there has been a 49.27% growth in the number of research degrees (Ph.Ds) awarded by the Indian universities between 2008-09 and 2011-12.
Ministry of human resource development said: in 2008-09, 10,781 Ph.Ds were awarded that increased to 16,093 in 2011-12.
There has also been a massive jump in India’s contribution to world’s research publications. Citing a report by the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, the ministry said it increased from 26,000 in 2002 to 44,000 in 2007.
Despite the rapid strides in research, India is still way behind other nations. In the same period, the number of Ph.Ds in China increased from 14,706 to 48,112. Increase in Ph.Ds in the US was, however, marginal —from 40,024 to 41,464.
As for the contribution to the world publications UNESCO data shows that between 2002 and 2007, Brazil’s contribution increased from 16,000 to 29,000, Russia (31,000 to 32,000), China (62,000 to 1.94 lakh), the UK (93,000 to 1.25 lakh), the US (3.15 lakh to 3.58 lakh) and Japan (92,000 to 98,000).
Tharoor said government has taken various steps for promotion and growth of postgraduate level studies and research. New institutions for science education and research have been set up. Universities are getting centres of excellence, new and attractive fellowships are on offer as well as there is emphasis on strengthening the infrastructure of Research & Development in universities. Tharoor said the HRD ministry had also set up a task force for rejuvenation of basic scientific research under M M Sharma. The task force has been converted into an empowered committee to implement its own recommendations.
In social sciences various research councils — Indian Council of Historical Research, Indian Council of Social Science Research and Indian Council of Philosophical Research — have been asked to fund more research initiatives.
2015: No. 1 choice for global tech R&D
The Times of India, Dec 09 2015
Sujit John
India No. 1 choice for global tech R&D
69% Of All New Offshore Tech Centres Established In 2015 Came Up In Country
India remains he No. 1 location for MNCs o establish product engineering and R&D centres outside their home countries, and he growth of these centres n India is outpacing the average global growth. India accounted for $12.3 billion, or 40%, of the total of $31billion of globalized engineering and R&D in 2015, according to a study by consul ing firm Zinnov. Compared o 2014, the revenues of the captives in India grew by 8.3%, as against the growth of 7.6% for all captives. China follows India with revenues of $9.7 billion.
Zinnov, which has been ocused on this space since it was founded over a decade ago, finds that 69% of all new offshore technology centres his year were set up in India.The past two years have seen a spate of new centres being set up and the older ones expanding, including those of Exxon Mobil, Lowe's, Visa, Victoria's Secret, JC Penny , CME Group, Wells Fargo, and British Telecom.
Software & internet accounts for 35% of the work be ng done in the captives, telecom & networking follows with 14% and semiconduc ors 12%. Consumer electronics, automotive, computer peripherals, medical devices, industrial, and aerospace & defence are other areas of work.
Zinnov finds another in eresting trend: engineering and R&D outsourcing to third parties is beginning to outpace growth of captives in India.
ndia is the second biggest outsourcing destination, after Western Europe, where companies like Altran, Alten, Ak ka Technologies, Assystem and Harman Connected Services are strong.
India accounted for $7.8 billion, or 21.6%, of the total outsourced engineering and R&D services of $36 billion in 2015. Compared to 2014, it grew at 12.7%, as against the global growth of 8.7%.
“Five years ago, the growth was coming primarily from captives. Now, the captives have matured, and it is the third-party service providers who are growing faster,“ Sidhant Rastogi, partner in Zinnov , said. While captives do more of the work they consider proprietary and those that involve new technologies, they outsource a lot of the rest of the work.
Independent software vendors and telecom outsourcers dominated the outsourced pie. But the fastest growth came in the automotive, software and medical segments, the first thanks to the trend towards connected cars and change in labour laws in Germany.
TCS, Wipro and HCL Technologies have traditionally been the leading players in this space. “However, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, L&T and Aricent are giving good competition to the top 3. Even European players like Altran and Alten are setting up centres in India,“ Rastogi said.
Total R&D spending by the top 500 R&D spenders in the world grew by 2% to reach $614 billion this year.That means, globalized and outsourced R&D together ($67 billion) accounts for 11% of total R&D.
Rastogi said the outsourced R&D space was seeing a huge acquisition trend. Aricent acquired SmartPlay to get embedded and semiconductor competency, Altran acquired Nspyr and Sicontech to grow in the US market, Quest Global acquired Nest to diversify in embedded software services, Capgemini and Harman entered the product engineering services market through acquisition of mid-sized engineering firms.
“No one has grown more than 13% without acquisitions. So Indian players will have to acquire to grow faster,“ Rastogi said.
