Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.
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The rich agricultural nations are the ones that can adapt to the new biotechnologies.
India has the opportunity to be a leader in genetic engineering, It has institutions that no other country has.
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of scientific breakthroughs in the next generation.
We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.
It used to be that almost all innovation came from the U.S. and a small number of other developed countries. That's no longer the case, and as China and India grow, it's changing even more. Expect a lot more Chinese and Indian Nobel prizes in the future.
I'm very interested in the impact of biotechnology on the way people live.
There was a time when bright people had few prospects for higher education and good jobs here. But that is changing. India is no longer seen as an undesirable place to work or pursue research.
Biotech research is incredibly important for health-care innovation.
The more people we can attract to science and technology - men, women, everybody - the more economic opportunity we have as a nation.
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