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Figure 1.5 Patent Applications by BRICK and other Countries in their Respective IP Offices, 2013
Note: Figures in parenthesis indicate percentage increase or decrease over the previous year
Source: WIPO (2014)3

power, education and healthcare, information and communication
technology, critical technologies and strategic industries.
The Indian National Science Academy (INSA), during the Platinum
Jubilee Year in 2009, commissioned a group of comparatively young
scientists to prepare a draft vision document for Indian science.
‘A Vision Document for Indian Science’, released in August 2010,
supposed to serve as a guide for Indian science policy in the short
and intermediate term, addresses the four key problems in Indian
science: bureaucracy, hierarchy, lack of autonomy, and insufficient
participation of scientists at different levels.
A vision document for Indian science, prepared by Indian Prime
Minister’s Science Advisory Council, and released in September 2010
has charted a roadmap for the growth of Indian science for the next
20 years. The 47-page report, ‘India as a Global Leader in Science’ has
called for a hike in R&D expenditure to 2.5 per cent by 2020 (against
0.8 per cent at present) and creation of an environment for generating
S&T human resources to the tune of at least 15 lakh graduate scientists,
3 lakh postgraduate scientists, and 30,000 PhDs every year by the
year 2025. The report suggests the need to move from incremental
innovations to radical innovations and proposes the creation of a
public company for supporting start-up ventures up to INR 10 billion,
besides tax incentives to innovative companies and extra-budgetary
grants for new ideas and innovation in government-funded research
organizations and encouraging their scientists to set up commercial

3 World Intellectual Property Organization (2014) WIPO IP Facts and Figures.
Available at .

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