Mumbai: India can build global technologies
out of the pool of the knowledge available within the country
and for this it is necessary that country's education system
ideally provides a conducive environment to bridge the gap
between research work and application of technology, former
chairman of Atomic Energy commission Anil Kakodkar said here
today.
Addressing the 15th annual convocation of National
Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Kakodkar said,
"India has been making important contributions to the global
knowledge pool for ages and this process continues even today.
But still we are vulnerable to foreign dependencies which
arises due to the disconnect that has come about between our
knowledge activity and its transformation into robust
technology."
"While the new knowledge which is output of basic
research is shared globally, sharing of technology is not
without constraints and costs and these are barriers arising
out of commercial, strategic, political and such other
considerations," he said.
"Therefore, building our own technologies out of our own
knowledge pool within the country is thus of crucial
importance and India has to pay sufficient attention to bridge
the gap between lab achievement and translating to industrial
scale," he told the students who graduated today.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, February 13, 2010, 21:35