Indian science policy bibliography

Rajiv Gandhi with then Dutch minister-president Ruud Lubbers at Schipol Airport in 1987. Gandhi espoused a mission-led science and technology policy that calls to mind the mission innovation currently promoted by the European Commission. Image from the Dutch National Archives.

[T]ime and time again, India had almost all of the resources necessary for big development-except the money.

Reyes, 2022, A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947-1969: Autarky and Foreign Aid by William A. T. Logan (review), in: Technology and Culture

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Krishna, 2025, The Indian Science Community: Historical and Sociological Studies

Krishna, 2024, Modi promised so much but science has stagnated on his watch, in: 360info (Monash University)

R Rajesh Babu and Manish Thakur (eds.), Managing India: the Idea of IIMs and its Changing Contexts

Sánchez-Cacicedo (ed.), 2024, EU-India relations: Gaining strategic traction? (European Union Institute for Security Studies)

Aashique Ahmed Iqbal, 2023, The Aeroplane and the Making of Modern India

Kumar, 2023, Science and Society in Modern India (see also his lecture posted on the ISTI Portal, dated 23 February 2022)

Mahuli, et al., 2023, ‘Identification of strategic international partnerships among emergent global artificial intelligence policies’, in: Cambridge Journal of Science Policy

Vijay Kumar Sattiraju and Manthan D. Janodia, 2023, ‘Analysis of science, technology and innovation (STI) policies of India from 1958 to 2020’, in: Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management

Petrov, 2023, Roses and Lotuses: Bulgaria’s Electronic Entanglement with India, in: Balkan Cyberia: Cold War Computing, Bulgarian Modernization, and the Information Age behind the Iron Curtain

Spinola and Kaushik, 2023, The National Innovation System of India: historical perspective and key characteristics

Arokkiaraj and Irudaya Rajan, 2023, Motivations among Indian Students to Study Medicine in Eastern European Countries, in: Indian Migration Report 2023

Dinesh C. Sharma, 2022, Indian Innovation, Not Jugaad – 100 Ideas that Transformed India (see also an interview with the author dated 5 August 2022)

Goveas, et al., 2022, The Need for Institutional Capacity Building to Enhance India’s Science Diplomacy (DST CPR)

Aga, 2021, Genetically Modified Democracy: Transgenic Crops in Contemporary India

Venni Krishna, 2021, ‘India @ 75: science, technology and innovation policies for development’, in: Science, Technology and Society (see also his lecture, Indian science policy 75 years after independence)

Suvobrata Sarkar, 2021, History of Science, Technology, Environment, and Medicine in India

Namdeo and Goveas, 2021, ‘Indian innovation diplomacy: choices, challenges and way ahead’, in: Science Diplomacy Review

Ankita Dutta, 2021, Unpacking the India-EU Economic Relationship, in: A 2030 Vision for India’s Economic Diplomacy

Philipp Gieg, et al. (ed.), 2021, EU-India Relations: the Strategic Partnership in the Light of the European Union Global Strategy

Logan, 2021, A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947-1969: Autarky and Foreign Aid

Lourens van Haaften, 2021, Higher education cooperation in the EU’s strategy towards India: shifting rationales and unfulfilled potentials, Policy Brief, Global India ETN. See also EU-India relations and the geopolitics of higher education by the same author.

Neeta Inamdar, Priya Vijaykumar Poojary and Praveen Shetty (eds.), 2021, Contours of India-EU Engagements: Multiplicity of Experiences

Dhananjay Tripathi, 2021, Evaluating Brexit Implications for India’s Relations with the EU and the UK

Joint Statement on India-The Netherlands Virtual Summit -Towards a Strategic Partnership on Water, Netherlands government statement, April 2021

2010-2020

Suryesh K. Namdeo and Jenice Jean Goveas, 2020, Indian Innovation Diplomacy: Choices, Challenges and Way Ahead, in: Science Diplomacy Review

Ambreen Yousef, 2020, EU-India Summit: Vision and Mission

Sandhya, 2018, India’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy: Choices for Course Correction with Lessons Learned from China, in: STI Policy and Management Journal

Bakthavachalam Elango and Yuh-Shan Ho, 2017, A bibliometric analysis of highly cited papers from India in Science Citation Index Expanded, in: Current Science

Tejada, 2016, Skilled Indians in Europe: Knowledge Transfer and Social Impact, in: Migration and Social Remittances in a Global Europe

Ross Bassett, 2016, The Technological Indian

Phalkey and Wang, 2016, Planning for science and technology in China and India, in: British Journal for the History of Science

Swapan Kumar Patra and Venni V. Krishna, 2015, Globalization of R&D and open innovation: linkages of foreign R&D centers in India, in: Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity

Jairam Ramesh, 2015, Green signals: ecology, growth, and democracy in India

Kapil Subramanian, 2015, Revisiting the Green Revolution: Irrigation and Food Production in Twentieth-Century India

Romani, 2014, Innovation in India: Combining Economic Growth with Inclusive Development

Phalkey, 2013, Atomic state: big science in twentieth-century India

Mukherjee and Chanda, 2012, Indian student mobility to selected European countries: an overview (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Samir Kumar Saha, 2012, The origins of technical education in India, in: The Circulation of Science and Technology

Sandhya, 2012, A Comparative Study on S&T, Innovation and Development Strategies of China and South Korea vis-à-vis India (CSIR‐NISTADS)

2000-2010

Cullather, 2010, The Hungry World: America’s Cold War Battle Against Poverty in Asia

Krige and Barth (eds.), 2009, Global Power Knowledge: Science and Technology in International Affairs

Neelam Kumar, 2009, Women and Science in India: A Reader

Pawan Sikka, 2007, Rajiv Gandhi’s Modern India: Development with Science and Technology (see also Rajiv Gandhi – His Vision of India of the 21st Century: science, technology and national development, by the same author)

Kamal Nayan Kabra and Laxmi Dass, 2006, Charkha and Chip: Rural Industrialization and Technology

Kumar, 2006, Science and the Raj: A Study of British India

1990-2000

Abraham, 1998, The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy and the Postcolonial State

Mashelkar, 1995, India’s emergence as a global R&D platform: The new challenges and opportunities, in: Current Science

Jasanoff, 1994, Learning from Disaster: Risk Management After Bhopal

Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture

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