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The Transfer of Knowledge through Expatriate Nationals (TOKTEN) is an ongoing programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in over 30 countries. This paper suggests a user-friendly approach to gauge success of the erstwhile TOKTEN-India as well that of the more complex TOKTEN Umbrella Project in India. Complexity comes from the micro dimension of individual activities and the macro dimension of holistic output. The task became harder because its three components were expected to vibrate in resonance concurrently, while walking along their separate routes. Putting a price tag on outputs of larger incubation time, valuable byproducts and spin-offs and on institutionalized activities has thrown additional challenges. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper looks into the Indo-German collaboration in S&T, through the co-authored publications during the period 1996-2000. The collaboration is under two broad streams, bilateral and multilateral. The study provides an analysis of co-authored papers by main fields and sub-fields and the impact of such collaboration in different fields of S&T. The paper identifies the major institutions involved in collaborative research in the two countries. The study reveals the extent of commonality of subject interest between the two countries. The analysis showed that the bilateral papers were maximum in physics followed by chemistry, biomedical research, etc. However the impact factor of bilateral papers was highest in biomedical research followed by physics, chemistry, etc. As many as 88 per cent of all bilateral papers have been reported in journals having impact factor less than 1.38, the average impact factor of all bilateral papers. Similar result of analysis is shown for the multilateral papers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]