Highlights of the new technology policy draft
• Accessibility of technology to all segments of society, upgrading of traditional skills.
• Waste prevention, lower raw material consumption, preventive pollution control.
• Augmentation of scientific and technical personnel, improvement of management of R&D institutions.
• Thrust areas to include alternative energy technologies, agriculture, health services, transport, communication, housing, biotechnology, software, unexploited resource areas such as oceans.
• Predominant role for corporate and government R&DE, increased share of indigenous technology, focus on applications and markets.
• R&D E expenditure to be 2 per cent of GNP by 2000, increased contributions from industry.
• Reduced dependence on government, removal of weaknesses in transfer of applications from lab to industry, integrated R&D E approach.
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