Dreaming of Becoming a Company of Wizards? Change to Dreaming and Realizing (D&R) OR Creating for Revenue (C&R) from Research and Development (R&D)
Why this play of words with such a serious issue? It's not just a play of words, but the first step in exciting scientists and engineers to take India to the top of the ranking of scientific nations. The words research and development connote some very complex and high-level intellectual processes in which only a few thousand 'geniuses' work, while millions of science, engineering and technology graduates and professionals are rarely involved. They remain uninformed about what happens behind the doors of those 'hallowed' buildings, often with unwelcoming boards that say ‘Entry Restricted'. What are the achievements of the activities of the select few 'geniuses' in R&D? Not very inspiring and nor highly commendable. What is the basis for such a negative picture? Jealousy? Ignorance? Not at all. It is based on overwhelming evidence. In spite of India having the distinction of the world’s highest number of engineers graduating each year, the countr