V Ramagopal Rao, Vice Chancellor, Bits Pilani
Are global capacity centers (GCC) in India retained to make decisions locally, at least from the perspective of collaborating with educational institutions? Prof v Ramagopal Rao, Vice Chancellor or Bits Pilani says yes; GCCs in the country often require the approval of their headquarters for funds and any important decision, annoying local collaborations, he explained.
“The terms of the GCCS contract, such as insurance requirements, can be difficult for academic institutions in the country to comply,” he said.
In a conversation with the president of Nasscom, Rajash Nambiar, at the CCG summit here on Tuesday, Rao marked some challenges that were filled in the way to build collaborations between the CCG and academic institutions.
“The R&D budgets of some GCC are surprisingly low, only lower than their travel budgets. Only a small percentage of GCC currently focuses on defining and solving local problems independently,” he said.
They urged the government to intervene in facilitation and encourage collaborations between academia and industry, potentially through the combination. “We need to move from transactional collaborations to large -scale sustained associations,” he said, highlighting the importance of effort.
Conerns Integrity Research
Marking the issue of research integrity, which has become a group in India, said that the country occupied third place worldwide both in research and retraction publications.
“India produces more spent dollar research work than any other country. Competition for the classification encourages practices such as plagiarism and generation of false data, which leads to retractions,” he said.
The Government classified its institutions according to self -drafted data. The current classification system does not properly take into account the retractions or verifiability of the data sent, hey said.
Posted on April 23, 2025