Need For More Researchers In India To Combat Innovation And Creativity Crisis
The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 has posed a burden to the worldwide economy which has impacted the people’s lives and especially the healthcare system. The current scenario has showcased the problem and challenges in our invention process. Desperate time demands desperate solutions and it is one of the strong drivers of in-novation and creativity among organizations and individuals. Time is a luxury to innovate at the time of crises that we are facing now and it has shown that it is not necessary to always invest so much time for innovating new things, but creativity can never always depend on these kinds of situations. This situation shows that the people of India also possess great innovative and creative ideas.
Former President A.P.J Abdul Kalam once said “When children are encouraged to express themselves and take a risk in creating art they develop a sense of innovation that will help produce the kind of people that society needs to take it forward”.
Children in India formally get introduced to Science and Maths around the age of 6 or 7 and soon it becomes the benchmark to the IQ. Today Indian Students are running in a rat race, where science is no more fun as it is more to do with test marks and score in Olympiads. In high schools, the focus of students shift to learn outside the school class-rooms and it is not labs or practical classes but the tuition centres where they spend most of their time.
