Encouraged by India’s success in the IT services and Business process outsourcing (BPO) model, Indian educational institutions can explore opportunities in research outsourcing which forms the key component of the knowledge process outsourcing. Typically, this could be attempted in the areas of engineering, healthcare and biotech which are currently viewed to be the “sun rise” industries by the policy makers in India.
This paper [link] was published in a national conference at SRM university in 2006.