New Delhi: NITI Aayog has launched the “India S&T Scoreboard“, a platform that provides an integrated view of the country’s science and tech landscape. It has been designed to facilitate evidence-based policymaking and benchmarking for states/UTs.The scorecard shows India’s progress on Global Innovation Index, scientific publications, patent filings etc. over the years, noting the country’s improvement in the index – from 81st in 2015 to 38th in 2026. It shows India’s steady progress in bringing out scientific publications, filing of patents and number of startups, which reached 2.23 lakh.The scoreboard brings together data on S&T ecosystem, including higher education institutions, R&D institutions, deeptech startups, and incubators, along with S&T outputs like research publications and patents. “Going beyond the volume of output, it presents indicators of research quality, collaboration and open access across priority research areas and three sectors, namely academia, government R&D Labs and Industry,” said NITI Aayog.Setting out the context and objectives of the exercise, Vivek Kumar Singh, Senior Advisor, NITI Aayog, said that the scoreboard has been built to go beyond the volume of output and capture quality, impact and collaboration, so that states can identify expertise and areas for focused action.
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