Science, Technology and Innovation Policy 2013: whither innovation and inclusion.

ABSTRACT

India is one of the pioneering countries in the developing world that explicitly recognised the key role of science and technology in addressing problems of development. Jawaharlal Nehru, the prime architect of modern India, while addressing the Indian Science Congress in 1938, stated that science alone could solve the problems the country faced hunger and poverty, insanitation and illiteracy, superstition and deadening custom and tradition.