R. Chetal et A. Raj, Sponsored R & D in India: The project sponsoring pattern and main outcome of projects sponsored by major central departments/agencies, SCIENTOMETR, 43(3), 1998, pp. 393-421
This paper examines the project sponsoring pattern and the outcome of extra
mural R&D with respect to the projects sponsored by country's eleven centra
l agencies during the Seventh Five-Year Plan period. The outcome considered
are: contribution of R&D support to development of R&D facilities at the r
ecipient institutions, creation of employment through project posts, develo
pment of new technologies, quantum and quality of research publications and
. generation of doctoral thesis. The paper concludes that sponsored R&D has
largely remained one-way flow of funds to a preferred set of institutions
(as perceived by each sponsoring agency) and the outcome of the R&D have al
so remained unexamined by the respective funding agencies. The paper advoca
tes development of a monitoring system which would help in enhancing the ut
ilisation of sponsored R&D and its overall impact on science, society and e
conomy.