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In this chapter, we discuss some of the ways in which Indian policy authorities have at last begun to address the multiple challenges faced by the Indian system of higher education. They have instituted a range of reforms in an attempt to meet the growing demands of students for higher education and promote greater equality of educational access and opportunity, and to address the issues of academic quality and research performance. At the same time, we want to argue that Indian policymakers have subtly shifted the focus of research from pure, conceptual and disciplinary research to research that is considered applied, solution-focused and relevant to the demands of different stakeholders, encouraging a new way of linking research and innovation. The new goals of research straddle the requirements of India’s population at the ‘bottom of the economic pyramid’ as well as the country’s aspirations of participating in the global knowledge economy.
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Gorur, R., Rizvi, F. (2015). Research and Innovation in Indian Higher Education. In: Schwartzman, S., Pinheiro, R., Pillay, P. (eds) Higher Education in the BRICS Countries. Higher Education Dynamics, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9570-8_21
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