Technology and tradition clash in India
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India is learning that technology on its own cannot solve problems in society, and that science-based innovation has to be socially accepted and suited to the prevailing cultural system. The country's first waste incineration plant was commissioned in 1988, but closed down in 1992 without producing any electricity. The government had not taken into consideration the fact that reusable items are retrieved by Delhi's 8,000 rag pickers from municipal landfill sites and that the remainder was insufficient to operate the plant.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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Independence, but no Nobel winners for India since then
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India has had no Nobel Prize winners in science since the 1940s despite investing $50 billion to create a network of roughly 120 universities of technology and 100 national laboratories. Many feel that this is largely because the government has allowed the nation's once-excellent university systems to steadily disintegrate over the last five years of its independence. One prominent scientist opined that the national laboratory and university system generally frowns upon initiative, inspiration or innovation.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1997
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India goes to sea for research funds
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Indian scientists believe that the blood of the horseshoe crab Limulus polyphemus will become the commercially valuable source of the chemical amoebocyte lysate. Pharmaceutical firms employ this chemical to detect bacterial toxins. Scientists working for India's National Institute of Oceanography hope that the money generated by selling the blood will support Indian science. However, US drug companies say that the Indians are overly optimistic about the likely demand for the blood.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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