{"id":181681,"date":"2022-04-28T10:41:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=181681"},"modified":"2022-04-28T10:41:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:11:36","slug":"answered-revitalizing-public-rd-could-transform-innovation-and-give-meaning-to-our-doctrine-of-strategic-autonomy-elucidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-revitalizing-public-rd-could-transform-innovation-and-give-meaning-to-our-doctrine-of-strategic-autonomy-elucidate\/","title":{"rendered":"[Answered] Revitalizing public R&#038;D could transform innovation, and give meaning to our doctrine of strategic autonomy. Elucidate."},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"624\"><strong>Introduction: <\/strong>Write down a contextual introduction<strong>.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Body: <\/strong>Highlight the need for investing in defense R&amp;D.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Way forward: <\/strong>write some suggestions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A recent Parliamentary Standing Committee report says that India spends too little on defence research and development (R&amp;D). The US at around $780 billion is <strong>40 per cent of world spending on defence<\/strong>, China ($250 billion) is 13 per cent, followed by <strong>India ($72 billion) at 4 per cent<\/strong>. Defence R&amp;D activity in India is primarily driven by Government establishments like DRDO labs, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Need:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The R&amp;D <strong>budget is too small<\/strong> by any standard compared to major military spenders across the world thats why India lags behind in building a credible and capable domestic defence industry.<\/li>\n<li>C&amp;AG report, 2011 to the Parliament, highlighted the 90% import dependency of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) for raw materials and other items for the production of indigenous equipment.<\/li>\n<li>The imbalance in R&amp;D spending has led to a <strong>\u201ctechnological asymmetry\u201d<\/strong> between India and its rivals. China has a stellar military industrial complex because China invested in research and we did not.<\/li>\n<li>The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported that <strong>India was the world\u2019s second-largest importer <\/strong>of major arms in 2014-18 and accounted for 9.5% of the global total.<\/li>\n<li>Investment in R&amp;D can lead to opening up of new industries as manufacturing hubs for defence procurement and thus create employment for a lot of people in various sectors like designing, manufacturing, innovating, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Way forward:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>should aim to increase the export capability to attract funding for indigenisation equipment.<\/li>\n<li>There should be a level playing field for the private sector along with DRDO and OFB, and more administrative and financial autonomy should be given to DRDO and satellite organizations for their effective working.<\/li>\n<li>Self-reliance in defence is one of the crucial components of effective defence capability for the country and also important to attain strategic autonomy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: Write down a contextual introduction. Body: Highlight the need for investing in defense R&amp;D. Way forward: write some suggestions A recent Parliamentary Standing Committee report says that India spends too little on defence research and development (R&amp;D). The US at around $780 billion is 40 per cent of world spending on defence, China ($250&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answered-revitalizing-public-rd-could-transform-innovation-and-give-meaning-to-our-doctrine-of-strategic-autonomy-elucidate\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Answered] Revitalizing public R&#038;D could transform innovation, and give meaning to our doctrine of strategic autonomy. Elucidate.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704850742},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}