{"id":75978,"date":"2018-02-14T01:22:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T09:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/indias-commitment-to-science-begins-to-pay-off"},"modified":"2018-02-14T01:22:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T09:22:39","slug":"indias-commitment-to-science-begins-to-pay-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/indias-commitment-to-science-begins-to-pay-off","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s commitment to science begins to pay off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/indias-commitment-to-science-begins-to-pay-off.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To achieve this, the government is hoping to find more scientists like Koul, who sees his role as an \u201copportunity to address bigger social as well as scientific challenges\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This is a tall order, and there\u2019s an elephant in the room. Government funding for Indian research and development has stagnated at around 0.85% of gross domestic product for more than a decade, compared with at least 3% invested by technologically advanced nations such as Denmark, Japan and Sweden.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A push to reverse its brain drain is providing the expertise to tackle its domestic problems.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-017-07771-y\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586&#45;017&#45;07771-y<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To achieve this, the government is hoping to find more scientists like Koul, who sees his role as an \u201copportunity to address bigger social as well as scientific challenges\u201d. This is a tall order, and there\u2019s an elephant in the room. Government funding for Indian research and development has stagnated at around 0.85% of gross [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}