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December - 2006 - issue > Editor's Desk
The World’s New R&D Factory
Pradeep Shankar
Starting with Texas Instruments, which setup its R&D center in India in 1985, over 1000 small, mid and big technology companies across verticals have set up their R&D hubs or engineering centers in India.
In many cases, such as Dell, Oracle, Intel, Adobe, ST Microelectronics, SAP and others, the India R&D center is their largest facility outside the U.S. or Europe. Others including IBM, Texas Instruments, Delphi, HP, Microsoft, GE, Philips, Motorola, Yahoo, Google, Cisco, and Siemens have been tapping Indian talent for conducting cutting-edge research, with an eye to deliver new generations of products faster to the global market.
The country is today drawing 25 percent of fresh global investments in R&D centers. India’s innovation basket is all set to swell, as it continues to be a hot R&D destination for companies large and small.
In this issue we feature the Dell India R&D center. Not many companies today develop complete systems in their India centers like Dell. The complexity of the product development that happens here reflects the kind of work that could be executed from India. If one were to go by Dell’s approach, the envelope of work that could be done in India can increase manifold.
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