Betting big on the burgeoning affordable handset market in India, Chinese telecom major ZTE yesterday said it plans to set up a new R&D center dedicated to mobile phones. The firm will also launch six new smartphones this year to tap the multi-billion dollar opportunity in India. ZTE will price the...
Rolls-Royce expands from outsourced to hybrid model
Rolls Royce currently operates two engineering centres in Bangalore along with Quest and Tata Consultancy Services CS, which were established in 2005 and 2010, respectively and employs almost 1,000 engineers. While Quest supports the delivery of Rolls-Royce's engineering solutions, the TCS centre provides engineering solutions and services for product development....
Hospira gets into R&D and Manufacturing
Lake Forest, Illinois based Hospira acquired an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing facility and an associated research and development facility in Aurangabad from Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a leading Indian pharmaceuticals company, for $218 million. "Hospira's acquisition of the 665 employee Orchid API facility will support supply continuity of...
Another Fortune 500 Company sets up R&D Center in Mumbai
A research and development facility was established in Mumbai, India's largest city by Ashland global specialty chemical company. The newspaper, BusinessLine, states the center will cater to personal and home care companies in India such as Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Colgate Palmolive, L’Oreal, Godrej Consumer Products, Emami, Dabur India, Cavin...
Global Engineering talk at Industrial Research Institute resonates with audience, May 9, 2012
Last Wednesday Dr. Navin Kunde of the Clorox Company and I spoke at the Annual Meeting of of the Industrial Research Institute with over 300 global executives in attendance. The material include examples of small and large R&D initiatives in India/China by some of most reputed companies in Europe and...
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...