India- The New R&D Hub Of Global Giants

Bangalore: The increasing demand for high-skilled Indian talent has given rise to more number of R&D centres in India. More than 25 global companies have established R&D centres in the country from the beginning of 2012. Now, India is home to around 1,031 total R&D centres, reports Sujit John of TNN.

According to the recent report by Zinnov, a research firm, Groupon, Unilever, Expedia, Panasonic, FireEye, Ricoh, Royal DSM, Ruckus Wireless, Abbott, and Sigma-Aldrich are among the few that have been listed in the past 18 months.

Groupon's R&D is responsible for creating social buying platforms, where as Expedia in building travel platform which they sell to other companies.

"Unilever's R&D centre works on packaging technologies, supply chain products, creating new plant layouts and plant machinery. He said companies like Altran and Sogeti, a Capgemini subsidiary that specializes in engineering services, had given their India centres the P&L responsibility for many locations outside of their strongholds in Europe,” said Sundararaman Viswanathan, manager-consulting in Zinnov.

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