Science, Engineering and Technology Education: Innovative Paradigm Shift‪.‬

Introduction World economy is fast changing to 'Knowledge Economy'(1) (Houghton and Sheenan, 2000) and therefore skill trained 'Human Resources' (HR) and scientific and technological Intellectual Properties (IP) related to product and process development are considered two major assets of a developed Nation today. To keep pace with the faster growth of science and technologies, it is necessary to have equally flexible system of education to meet the changing demand patterns well in time. Rather the introduction of necessary changes in academic curricula and exposure to the experimental sciences should be planned such that as soon as the demands of specially trained HR is raised by specific Industry, the same is either met from a group of retrained HR or from some fresh group capable of handling the situations with competence. This could be done only by having a close cooperation between academic institutions and Industry in developing and implementing the basic core curricula and job specific vocational programs.