Science and Technology in China: Implications and Lessons for India - Hardcover

The book is unique in many aspects and steers clear of many stereotypes in the scholarship of science and technology in china.... A valuable collection of essays on the developments both for the specialist as well as the policy analyst.

A very welcome effort...it is a book that needs to be read not just by our S&T policy developers and administrators, but also civilian industry leaders and gov¬ernment policy makers as also their defence counterparts.

Science and Technology in China discusses the changing structural and institutional context of scientific research in China. The new environment of global competition entails that the norms of generation of new knowledge are as important as those for innovation and commercialization. China has been able to achieve this in a largely state-controlled environment, where political will and commitments have played an increasingly important role. India, on the other hand, is still caught in a paradox of too much democracy at all levels of social and economic activity. It needs a big political push and inclusive decentralized approach to realize its well-defined plans and objectives to make its international presence felt.  

The essays focus on China’s nuclear programme, space technology, aviation, aeronautics, IT and industrial development. The contributors conclude that India has to carefully tailor its own military strategy and diplomacy in the Asian region to greater effect with better harnessing and utilization of its strengths in science and technology.  The reforms, policy initiatives and strategies in multiple sectors initiated by China contain crucial lessons and one key message for India—the need to pursue a coordinated and single-minded strategy to achieve its goals.