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THE alliance between Renault-Nissan and Daimler will develop small cars and light commercial vehicles for emerging markets such as India and China. Senior officials at Renault and Nissan said while the alliance may not have an immediate impact on India, it could leverage on R&D and source components from low-cost destinations. [...]
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Excerpted from: The Economic Times, Mumbai, 10.04.2010
ZTE to step up R&D in India
10 Apr 2010, 0025 hrs IST, Kalyan Parbat, ET Bureau
KOLKATA: China’s near $9-billion telecom equipment maker, ZTE, one of the biggest players in the global 3G space, is poised to shore up its R&D budget in its Indian subsidiary, ZTE India.
The company is expected to set aside more than a billion dollars for global R&D in calendar 2010, of which at least 10% (read: $100 million) is likely to flow into India.
Bulk of the funds are expected to come to ZTE India’s engineering centre in Bangalore. “A significant slice of ZTE’s global R&D budget, at least 10%, is likely to come to India. The funds are expected to come to ZTE’s Value Added Services (VAS) Software Development Centre in Bangalore, which is integrated with ZTE’s global R&D network,” said a senior executive with direct knowledge of the matter.
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Worldwide, 33.5% of ZTE’s 70,000-strong global workforce is involved in telecom R&D. Of this, some 140-odd techies work at the company’s Bangalore R&D centre. [...] Currently, ZTE has a 3,500-strong employee pool in India, distributed across the Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and Kolkata centres.
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Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Graphical System Design company National Instruments today announced the launch of its new Research & Development facility at its India centre in Bangalore.
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Speaking about India as a focussed R&D destination for the company, Phil Hester, Senior Vice President of R&D said, “India R&D center is one of the strategic growth areas for National Instruments. We plan for it to become our centre of excellence in R&D, with focus on innovation, value creation and enhancing our intellectual property.”
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Excerpted from an interview of Moon Bum Shin, managing director of LG Electronics India, with the Economic Times, Mumbai, April 5, 2010, "We’ll spend $5 m on marketing: LG India", p. 4.
Q. Where does India figure in your global scheme of things?
A. We will make India the export hub for LG. This market will lead our global innovation and new development, and supply the new platform of green and environment-friendly products globally. We have chosen India to lead because the labour market here is rich with talent. There are scores of qualified engineers, best in class universities, and most importantly, a big base of Englishspeaking population. We are betting on this vast consumer base- the youngistaan of India. We have set up a learning, design and R&D centre in the Greater Noida headquarters. We will take these to big, separate locations within five years. This year, we plan to invest Rs 400 crore in R&D and Rs 700 crore in marketing. Our aim is to have 40% share in each category that we operate in within five years.
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Excerpted from: The Hindu Business Line, 30.03.2010
P.T.Jyothi Datta
Mumbai, March 29
Chemicals-major BASF said that 350 people, a research facility at Chandivali (Mumbai) and a plant at Ankleshwar (Gujarat) would come into its fold, through the merger of Ciba India Ltd with itself.
BASF has nine production facilities and a research facility. While it will keep Ciba's research facility and Gujarat plant, its Goa facility (that was on lease) has reverted to Syngenta, Mr Chandran said.
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Excerpted from: The Economic Times, April 3, 2010, p. 8
ISRO is preparing to launch a geosynchronous satellite launch vehicle (GSLV-D3), powered for the first time by a home-made cryogenic engine, from Sriharikota spaceport this month, its chief K Radhakrishnan said on Tuesday. [...]Update from 17.04.2010
He said the indigenous development of complex cryogenic rocket technology after years of effort is a reply to technology denial regimes. In terms of technology development it has been a “marvellous thing”, he said.
“In 1992, we wanted to get this technology from Russia, and the Americans put a sanction on Russia not to transfer this technology and India took a bold decision to develop it. So, we have done it,” he said.
The non-ignition of the cryogenic engine on board the Geo-Synchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-D3) led to the failure of the mission on Thursday (April 15), the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has more or less concluded. “The cryogenic engine has not ignited, that is for sure. Why it has not ignited, the reasons have to be found out,” said S. Satish, ISRO spokesman, on Friday.
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WASHINGTON — The United States voiced concern Wednesday that China has erected new hurdles to foreign innovation, in an annual report to Congress on foreign trade barriers.
"A troubling trend that has emerged... is China's willingness to encourage domestic or 'indigenous' innovation at the cost of foreign innovation and technologies," said the report submitted by US Trade Representative Ron Kirk.
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April 01, 2010 15:42 IST
Microsoft India R and D, which currently has a development centre in Hyderabad, announced the expansion of its activities to Bangalore on Thursday.
"It will initially have 200 plus employees, vast majority of whom would transition to Microsoft from Yahoo! as part of the Microsoft-Yahoo! Search alliance", Satya Nadella, senior vice president, R and D, Online Services Division, Microsoft told reporters in Bangalore.
"The Bangalore centre joins Hyderabad as one of the core hubs of development and research for OSD. The innovations from our Hyderabad team are already having significant impact on our US, UK, Canada, Australia and India products. The combined skills and talent of our existing OSD team at Hyderabad and the Yahoo! employees who join us now in Bangalore will enhance India's contribution to our OSD innovation charter inclusive of Microsoft Bing and Microsoft Ad Centre", he said.
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On MSN Bing, Microsoft's new redesigned web search engine, he said it had received some great early momentum in the US and efforts are on to develop some India specific features in offering local content.
This offering would be in terms of harvesting structured information like local events happening in a city and throw up structured results. It would also be working with local content developers for this, he said.
Both Hyderabad and Bangalore centres will grow and both would have top talents contributing to OSD, he said.
On the contribution of Microsoft India team, Microsoft India R&D MD Srini Koppolu said the team had been contributing in terms af adding core algo relevance, developing structured data and building page search advertising technology.
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New Delhi, March 31, 2010: Zinnov Management Consulting said the presence of multinational R&D centers in India has been a positive influence on the local industry ecosystem in India, particularly while fostering innovation, academic partnerships, entrepreneurial zeal and reversing brain drain.
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