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more-inColleges and universities should nurture young talent by promoting research in new knowledge so as to innovate and produce new products, says Professor of National University of Singapore Seeram Ramakrishna. Even otherwise, India is investing only one per cent of GDP in research while China is investing two per cent and Korea and Japan four per cent. Giving another example, he says the hilly regions of Chile face water problem and nano technology helps in converting fog into water. The country's research funding is mostly going into strategic sectors and national missions for obvious reasons, which is all the more reason for research in universities and colleges, he says. In a country like India research and innovation in nano technology has the potential to vastly improve, among others, water and air quality, healthcare and marketing prospects for agricultural produce, he says..