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India's technology spend does not reflect the true picture. It has the talent to become a research powerhouse

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Akash Prakash 

Akash Prakash

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has once again focused attention on the importance of science and research for society and general economic progress. Researchers all over the world are scrambling to find a vaccine or a cure for the virus.

Many technological trends have been accelerated as companies globally have been forced to adapt to the lockdown. Technology has never been more important, be it in e-commerce, education or tele-medicine. In fact, technology spend has decoupled from the global gross domestic product growth and is experiencing a V-shaped recovery as most companies are having ...

First Published: Tue, September 01 2020. 00:23 IST