{"id":7760,"date":"2020-05-04T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T08:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=7760"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:41:02","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T08:11:02","slug":"reaserach-and-development-expenditure-and-scientific-publications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/reaserach-and-development-expenditure-and-scientific-publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaserach and Development expenditure and scientific publications"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"hero-section\" data-type=\"type-1\" data-alignment=\"left\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u2022 The research and development Statistics and Indicators 2019-20 based on the National Science and Technology survey 2018 was released by the National Science and Technology Management Information (NSTMIS), Department of Science and Technology (DST).<\/p>\n<p><b>Some of the key findings of the report are the following:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 India\u2019s gross expenditure in research and development has tripled between 2008 &amp; 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 India spent 0.7% of its GDP on research and development in 2017-18, while the same among other developing BRICS countries were Brazil 1.3%, Russian Federation 1.1%, China 2.1%, and South Africa 0.8%.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>DST and DBT were the two major players contributing 63% and 14%, respectively of the total extramural research and development support in the country during 2016-17.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 number of researchers per million population in India has increased to 255 in 2017 from 218 in 2015 and 110 in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 India occupies 3rd rank in terms of the number of Ph. D.\u2019s awarded in Science and Engineering after the USA (39,710 in 2016) and China (34,440 in 2015).<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 During 2018, India was ranked at 3rd, 5th and 9th in scientific publication output as per the NSF, SCOPUS and SCI database respectively<\/p>\n<p>\u2022<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong> According to WIPO, India\u2019s Patent Office stands at the 7th position among the top 10 Patent Filing Offices in the world.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; Views Join our Telegram Channel.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"telegram Link\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>https:\/\/t.me\/triumphias<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Click the link below to see the details about the UPSC \u2013Civils courses offered by Triumph IAS.<\/strong> <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" title=\"Courses available\" href=\"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php\">https:\/\/triumphias.com\/pages-all-courses.php<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Prelims: Science and technology Why in news? \u2022 The research and development Statistics and Indicators 2019-20 based on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-7760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7761,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7760\/revisions\/7761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}