Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek already runs a tech center in Noida, outside New Delhi and had now expanded to southern India. The company will invest $200 million in India over the next few years to boost R&D capabilities towards developing affordable solutions for the super-mid market. "MediaTek Bangalore R&D center caters to the...
Ramboll Inaugurates Global Engineering Center at Gurgaon
Ramboll, a Denmark based, global major in engineering, design and consulting, today inaugurated its Global Engineering Center at Gurgaon. The decision to start the Global Engineering Center comes amidst the demand and focus of providing global expertise using local resources from India. Ramboll's globally benchmarked standards of design and quality...
Indian Engineers Step up Innovation
Engineers in India, working for Indian and foreign companies, are starting to produce innovative products and technologies that have impact beyond its borders. One such development is a system that uses thermal sensors and algorithms to calculate the number of people entering a store at a given time and when...
New York's NYC Next selects India Team for innovation
In February 2009, The NYC Next Idea competition was announced by the city of New York, as part of a suite of initiatives dedicated to strengthening New York City ’s entrepreneurial community. Fifteen leading business and engineering universities from countries across Asia, Latin America, and Europe signed up to participate...
Low Cost Water Purifer: Bottom of the Pyramid innovation from Tata
Tata Chemicals is challenging Unilever's India unit for the world lowest cost home water purifier, based on a rice husk ash filter. With a starting retail price of $16 for the unit, it costs less than half of Hindustan Unilever's breakthrough PureIt unit which has been a runaway success in...
The next Big Wave: Innovation, Research and Development
I write for Business Week from time to time and this week, Dr. Atul Goel and I wrote a piece entitled: Innovation from India, the next Big Wave. It took them some time to publish the piece, but in many ways it is even more relevant now than when we...