DesiPundit

There are however two roadblocks (that I perceive) towards implementation of this type of policy - monetary and human inertia. Monetarily, it does not take huge amounts of financing to run a small research laboratory. It is not expected that such undergraduate research centers will produce papers for top journals like Science or Nature. There are nontrivial number of scientific problems out there that require man-hours. Due to the small scope and lower impact of many scientific problems, they are not handled by the bigger, more reputed laboratories and hence are ideal for the small setting (such research would also provide incremental benefits to the scientific progress of the country as a whole). Eventually, once an university gains reputation, there is also the possibility of industrial collaboration.

At the policywise blog, Bong’o'pondit discusses the means to improve undergraduate research training and examines the potential roadblocks.

Disclosure: I am a co-blogger at policywise.