Science for social transformation in Sri Lanka

We are now entering knowledge era, and to develop as a nation it is required to cultivate scientific culture in Sri Lanka. Science is still not the main stream, we do lots of experiments but there impact on the society is very little.

Hence Science has to be promoted to the general public (not only school children, which we have been doing all along) and to entrepreneurs.

The first step towards innovation culture is to adopt existing technologies and adapt them to local situation. Countries like South Korea and Singapore grew quickly by adopting existing technologies often handed down from Japan before becoming research and innovation hubs in their own right. Hence we also must try to get inputs from all sources (government, other universities, R&D institutes, private sector, discoveries in other countries) in exhibiting most relevant scientific discoveries available which can be used in development.