``It companies destroyed Indian scientific culture''
Information Technology companies had destroyed the Indian scientific culture and during the last 15 years research in the fields of engineering and technology had been greatly affected, especially in the manufacturing sector, said E. Balagurusamy, Member, State Planning Commission, here on Monday.
India may lead the second wave of IT adoption as companies here kept up investments despite the recession and seemed more forward-looking than their counterparts globally, according to IBM Corp. Forty per cent of Indian companies, surveyed by IBM in July, said they wanted to be first to adopt a new technology, while only 11% said they would wait till technology was widely available.