My friend Som Mittal used to run Hewlett Packard's India operations from Bangalore. Upon "retirement" he took over as the President of India's National Association of Software and Service Companies or Nasscom and moved to New Delhi. Som was three years ahead of me in undergraduate school and I've met...
Citrix India R&D Center is company's largest
In an interview with the Business Standard newspaper, Citrix Systems Inc, CEO Mark Templeton had this to say about his company's Bangalore R&D Center: "The impact made by the India {R&D} team can be quantified in couple of ways. One of the major impact can be considered as the patents...
Ascension Health to partner with India's Narayan Hrudayalaya hospital for location in the Americas!
Catholic healthcare organization, Ascension Health Alliance runs the largest American faith-based nonprofit medical care system. In an unusual partnership, it is helping set up a 140-bed multi-specialty hospital on Grand Cayman Island, which will provide services such as open-heart/bypass surgery, angioplasty, heart-valve replacement, cancer treatment, bone-marrow transplant, nuclear medicine, organ...
British Aerospace appoints new leader for India
UK defense company BAE Systems has appointed its CIO, Dean McCumiskey as Managing Director of its operations in India. BAE has formed two defense venture companies BAeHAL, a Bangalore-based software engineering joint venture with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (owned by India’s Ministry of Defense) and Defence Land Systems India in partnership...
German carmaker expands captive R&D Centers in India
Mercedes Benz now has 650 engineers working at its Bangalore development center. The facility is dedicated to passenger cars, and it currently works in conjunction with Daimler's German unit in many areas, including development of powertrains, according India General Manager (Product Homologation) Prakash Vermali. The company hired 250 tech staff...
Yahoo! produces 30% of its intellectual property from India
India's role in global R&D has increased steadily in the last decade. My colleauges and I have directly participated in educating and encouraging North American and European corporation to include India and China as part of their global R&D ecosystem, through the Amritt Global Innovation Practice. Our clients are working...