Where's cutting-edge R&D of MNCs? It's in India
Bangalore: After returning India in 2009, Sudhir Dixit was clearly asked by Hewlett-Packard Labs to innovate for the next billion customers, and mainly focus on how to meet the needs of non-tech savvy users like shopkeepers. The biggest challenge was in front of him that how would he help shopkeepers in using the computer just by touching its screen, speaking to it and gazing at it or waving their hand.

"The idea is to make it as natural as talking on the phone or watching TV," said Dixit. In the last few years, all the companies have upgraded their businesses in India. Companies such as Google, Microsoft, GE Healthcare and Siemens have begun to use India to design and develop products.
Understanding the demand, GE developed an electro-cardiogram (ECG) in India that costs a third of conventional ECG machines. Microsoft, which started its R&D centre in India five years ago, with just 20 people, employs 1,500 people today. For SAP, India is the largest R&D centre outside Germany and employs 4,200 people. Half of the global development of its customer relationship management software such as CRM 7.0 was done in India. For search giant Google, Bangalore was first R&D centre outside U.S. The biggest competitor of Google, Yahoo does 25 percent of its all development work in India.
Aravind Sitraman, Managing Director of Cisco Development Organization said that things began as a cost-arbitrage but today an entire line of products is owned out of India. Over the years, Cisco's centre in India evolved from a loanership to ownership, partnership and a new leadership model. Today, it looks at Bangalore, its eastern headquarters, as a zone for developing new technologies and products to drive growth in newer markets.
Following the success of IT companies, other multinationals are also fastly catching up, reported Ranju Sarkar and P B Jayakumar of Business Standard.
"The idea is to make it as natural as talking on the phone or watching TV," said Dixit. In the last few years, all the companies have upgraded their businesses in India. Companies such as Google, Microsoft, GE Healthcare and Siemens have begun to use India to design and develop products.
Understanding the demand, GE developed an electro-cardiogram (ECG) in India that costs a third of conventional ECG machines. Microsoft, which started its R&D centre in India five years ago, with just 20 people, employs 1,500 people today. For SAP, India is the largest R&D centre outside Germany and employs 4,200 people. Half of the global development of its customer relationship management software such as CRM 7.0 was done in India. For search giant Google, Bangalore was first R&D centre outside U.S. The biggest competitor of Google, Yahoo does 25 percent of its all development work in India.
Aravind Sitraman, Managing Director of Cisco Development Organization said that things began as a cost-arbitrage but today an entire line of products is owned out of India. Over the years, Cisco's centre in India evolved from a loanership to ownership, partnership and a new leadership model. Today, it looks at Bangalore, its eastern headquarters, as a zone for developing new technologies and products to drive growth in newer markets.
Following the success of IT companies, other multinationals are also fastly catching up, reported Ranju Sarkar and P B Jayakumar of Business Standard.
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4: Dr A .jagdish
Your quote by the minister has enlightened me yes i agree with your comment below more needs to be done in R & D hopefully we can see that happening in the current decade and following
thank you very much for the reply and quote of sri kapil sibal it has helped me to realize the facts
rama mohana rao anne
Your quote by the minister has enlightened me yes i agree with your comment below more needs to be done in R & D hopefully we can see that happening in the current decade and following
thank you very much for the reply and quote of sri kapil sibal it has helped me to realize the facts
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8: Iam not a guru to comment on this but
commonsense says that if Indians stick to
originality and do not copy ,but develop it
on own ideas first targeting the Local
consumer ,with highest quality first then
cost as secondary factor ,and it is good that
government is already having a policy to
revamp india's educational needs I do not see
why India will have good R & D base.
I think constant comparision with China will make it nervous for India,but marching ahead byitself slow it maybe but eventaully will pay off.My comments are based on the fact how little R & D was done in India in the last two decades to the current decade.
rama mohana rao anne
sydney australia
Rama Mohana Rao Anne
Sydney Australia
I think constant comparision with China will make it nervous for India,but marching ahead byitself slow it maybe but eventaully will pay off.My comments are based on the fact how little R & D was done in India in the last two decades to the current decade.
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12:Mr.Rama Mohana Rao Anne,here is the official
statement by the Science and Technology
Minister Shri Kapil Sibal in Rajya Sabha on
March 12,2008) on R & D in India and
China which answers your question:
India lags behind China in spending on research and development work as well as number of scientific researchers, science and technology minister Kapil Sibal informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Replying during Question Hour, he said the number of core researchers in India was about 1.5 lakh as compared to China's 8-10 lakh.
Number of persons doing research and development in Scandivan countries is 7,000 per million of population and 4,700 per million of population in the US. In India, there are 156 researchers per million of population. “This is a very big issue,” he said. R&D spending as percentage of GDP in India is only 0.8% as compared to China's 1.23%. Developed countries have R&D expenditure of up to 3% of GDP.
Of the 0.8% expenditure in India, 80% is by public sector while the private sector share is only 20%. In China and the US, the public sector share is only 30% each while in Japan it is only 18%.
Private sector component in R&D will have to increase, he said adding the government had given a slew of tax incentives on R&D spend in sectors like pharma and electronics.
Sibal said to increase number of researchers in the country, university system will have to be strengthened by expanding and upgrading infrastructure as presently R&D quality in university is negligible.
The 11th Plan allocations for scientific departments including departments of science and technology and atomic energy, has been increased three folds to Rs 75,304 crore during the 11th Plan (2007-2012) as compared to Rs 25,301.35 crore of 10th Plan Period, he said.
“The expenditure on research and development (R&D) as percentage of GDP in India is lower compared to that of a few developing countries like Brazil and China, but is higher compared to countries like Argentina, Cuba, Sri Lanka and Pakistan,” Sibal said.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP)
India lags behind China in spending on research and development work as well as number of scientific researchers, science and technology minister Kapil Sibal informed the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Replying during Question Hour, he said the number of core researchers in India was about 1.5 lakh as compared to China's 8-10 lakh.
Number of persons doing research and development in Scandivan countries is 7,000 per million of population and 4,700 per million of population in the US. In India, there are 156 researchers per million of population. “This is a very big issue,” he said. R&D spending as percentage of GDP in India is only 0.8% as compared to China's 1.23%. Developed countries have R&D expenditure of up to 3% of GDP.
Of the 0.8% expenditure in India, 80% is by public sector while the private sector share is only 20%. In China and the US, the public sector share is only 30% each while in Japan it is only 18%.
Private sector component in R&D will have to increase, he said adding the government had given a slew of tax incentives on R&D spend in sectors like pharma and electronics.
Sibal said to increase number of researchers in the country, university system will have to be strengthened by expanding and upgrading infrastructure as presently R&D quality in university is negligible.
The 11th Plan allocations for scientific departments including departments of science and technology and atomic energy, has been increased three folds to Rs 75,304 crore during the 11th Plan (2007-2012) as compared to Rs 25,301.35 crore of 10th Plan Period, he said.
“The expenditure on research and development (R&D) as percentage of GDP in India is lower compared to that of a few developing countries like Brazil and China, but is higher compared to countries like Argentina, Cuba, Sri Lanka and Pakistan,” Sibal said.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP)
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16: Cutting-edge R&D of MNCs are active in
having establishments on a large scale in
neighboring China.
As China's appetite for high-tech goods grows more foreign companies are setting up research and development (R&D) centers there. Indeed by the end of 2007 multinational corporations (MNCs) had established 1,160 research institutions in China, according to the PRC Ministry of Commerce. This demand for technology springs in part from the government sector but China's consumers and private enterprises are also interested in products and technologies that foreign companies develop. PRC government policy encourages companies whether domestic or foreign, to engage in R&D in China to boost domestically owned intellectual property (IP). Despite this encouraging and welcoming environment R&D centers face many of the same problems that most foreign investors face particularly in the areas of human resource (HR) management and IP protection.
In the past few years, R&D spending in China has increased substantially. In 2005, China spent 1.4 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on R&D, considerably less than the United States and Japan, which spent 2.6 percent and 3.2 percent of GDP respectively. Though it is unclear whether China will reach its goal of 2.5 percent by 2020, the country's R&D spending has been growing about 17 percent annually over the past 12 years and shows few signs of abating.
R&D spending in China jumped nearly 23 percent in 2006 to reach roughly ¥300 billion ($41.4 billion). The bulk of this spending came from private enterprises, followed by PRC government and university spending .Meanwhile total state funding of science and technology development which overlaps with R&D spending, surged in 2006 to its highest level since 1998—¥168.9 billion ($22.4 billion).
Company and university-run R&D operations are primarily concentrated in eastern China, in the first- and second-tier cities that are home to the top dozen or so universities that produce the talent R&D centers need. Only a handful of cities in China can be considered first-tier R&D cities: Beijing Shanghai and Guangzhou and Shenzhen Guangdong. Second-tier R&D cities include Nanjing Jiangsu Suzhou Zhejiang Xi'an Shaanxi and Wuhan Hubei. In fact Beijing Guangdong and the immediate Yangzi River Delta region (Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Zhejiang) accounted for 52 percent of all R&D spending in China and almost 56 percent of all science and technology funding in 2006.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP)
As China's appetite for high-tech goods grows more foreign companies are setting up research and development (R&D) centers there. Indeed by the end of 2007 multinational corporations (MNCs) had established 1,160 research institutions in China, according to the PRC Ministry of Commerce. This demand for technology springs in part from the government sector but China's consumers and private enterprises are also interested in products and technologies that foreign companies develop. PRC government policy encourages companies whether domestic or foreign, to engage in R&D in China to boost domestically owned intellectual property (IP). Despite this encouraging and welcoming environment R&D centers face many of the same problems that most foreign investors face particularly in the areas of human resource (HR) management and IP protection.
In the past few years, R&D spending in China has increased substantially. In 2005, China spent 1.4 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on R&D, considerably less than the United States and Japan, which spent 2.6 percent and 3.2 percent of GDP respectively. Though it is unclear whether China will reach its goal of 2.5 percent by 2020, the country's R&D spending has been growing about 17 percent annually over the past 12 years and shows few signs of abating.
R&D spending in China jumped nearly 23 percent in 2006 to reach roughly ¥300 billion ($41.4 billion). The bulk of this spending came from private enterprises, followed by PRC government and university spending .Meanwhile total state funding of science and technology development which overlaps with R&D spending, surged in 2006 to its highest level since 1998—¥168.9 billion ($22.4 billion).
Company and university-run R&D operations are primarily concentrated in eastern China, in the first- and second-tier cities that are home to the top dozen or so universities that produce the talent R&D centers need. Only a handful of cities in China can be considered first-tier R&D cities: Beijing Shanghai and Guangzhou and Shenzhen Guangdong. Second-tier R&D cities include Nanjing Jiangsu Suzhou Zhejiang Xi'an Shaanxi and Wuhan Hubei. In fact Beijing Guangdong and the immediate Yangzi River Delta region (Jiangsu, Shanghai, and Zhejiang) accounted for 52 percent of all R&D spending in China and almost 56 percent of all science and technology funding in 2006.
Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore(AP)
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20: companys should have understood of this fact
long back.
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