Science and technology development strategies in India and China-A joint workshop

摘要

Over the years, both India and China, have established science and technology (S&T) infrastructure under a strong government support, primarily in the context of building strong modern nations. In spite of several achievements, there persists a significant gap between the economies of these two countries and those of the developed countries. The gap is actually widening fast. In contrast to some of the newly industrialized countries, like Republic of Korea and Singapore that from the begining relied on technological modernisation through transplanting of techniques from outside, both India and China did not accept(at least in principle) this mode of technology acquisition as a basis of modernization. Rather they were inclined towards evolving a hybrid technology policy - a mix of import of technology and indigenous technology. The Indian and Chinese leaders had explicit concern for technological over-dependence on advanced countries. During the 90s, however, both the countries are promoting a liberal and open door policy to speed up technological mod-ernization of their industries.