Globally, the SME business is among the fifth and sixth positions for Adobe.
Debates over introducing Bt brinjal, the first genetically modified food crop in India, might have taken a different turn if the government had taken note of studies by one of its own R&D bodies, the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, showing that indigenous methods of controlling the notorious fruit and shoot borer can be as effective, cheaper and more environment friendly than using chemical pesticide.
Combining affordable IT with native Indian ingenuity and entrepreneurship F C Kohli believed would enable Indian small businesses match anyone and thrive.
DRDO chief G Satheesh Reddy Reddy is the first Indian to be appointed Fellow of the Royal Institute of Navigation and of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
European military consortium EADS Defence and Security on Tuesday said it will open a research and development centre in Bangalore within two years that will provide employment to 200 Indian engineers.
Manu Kumar Jain, vice-president, Xiaomi, and managing director, Xiaomi India, shares his thoughts with Arnab Dutta on how the firm has put India on the forefront.
This will be the first time since the presentation of independent India's first budget on November 26, 1947, that the documents containing income and expenditure statement of the Union government along with finance bill, detailing new tax and other measures for the new financial year, will not be physically printed.
The US-based aircraft manufacturing giant will expand its manufacturing presence, launch subsidiaries and strengthen research and development (R&D) programmes in the country. Jeppesen, a subsidiary of Boeing, is close to setting up an office in Hyderabad, while another, Aviall, the company's spare parts subsidiary, already has operations from Noida.
'SAP has been an enterprise software leader for 43 years, and we don't have a competitor also in this space.'
The testing track for high speed vehicles (having speeds between 250 kmph and 350 kmph) at the Indore centre would be operational by 2012.
Aggregate domestic R&D spend in India has never exceeded 1 per cent of GDP, and over 80 per cent of Indian firms spend nothing on research.
'The huge amount of investments being made by telcos in India for telecom gear, there is no way this demand could be met only by Europeans.' 'The Chinese are quick in installation and offer great value for money.'
Maruti would conceptualise a car that would be totally developed in India.
It is baffling how the PM chose the LCH as an indigenous product to celebrate on Rashtriya Raksha Samarpan Parv, even while his Cabinet holds up manufacturing clearance for 15 LCHs on the grounds that they are not Indian enough.
Hyundai Motor India Limited (HMIL) has been giving facelifts to its current range of cars. So are the changes on the Hyundai i10 worth it? Dig deeper to get your answers.
Government of India, Ministry of Science & Technology's Boycast Fellowship for the year 2008-09.
In a first at the National Institute of Design (NID), academic profiles were offered to the graduating batch of young designers during placements this year.
OXSIGHT, founded in 2016 to create wearable technology devices based on how the brain manages visual information, began conducting trials in India two years ago in partnership with leading eye hospitals and clinics.
'There is no tried and true recipe for creating Silicon Valleys.' 'Attracting and creating a mass of truly dynamic entrepreneurs is at the core and among the hardest and most necessary ingredients.' 'In the US, close to 60% of the top valued tech companies were started by immigrants who found the start-up climate to be superior to where they came from.' 'India would clearly benefit from attracting back its talented Diaspora, but it also needs to hold onto those entrepreneurs.'
Currently, FDI up to 100 per cent is allowed in the drugs and pharmaceuticals on the automatic route.
These unmanned aerial vehicles can fly at high speeds, detect intruders, do aerobatic maneuvers like loops, rolls, spins, and hammerheads effortlessly and communicate with each other intelligently.
People in the know said that from social and digital media campaign teams to communications specialists -- all hands were on deck, and every possible post or campaign with the potential to intensify the crisis, was being tracked.
The levy of clean energy cess on domestic and imported coal at Rs 50 per tonne can affect select players with captive thermal power plant, and also soda ash producers.
The excise duty was increased on bulk drugs and intermediates from 8% to 10%, but fortunately the excise duty on formulations remains at 4%.
The domestic crude oil producers will benefit from levy of customs duty at 5% on crude oil, and effective tax incidence will come down due to weighted deduction on R & D as well as cut in the surcharge on corporate taxes for domestic companies
US-based invention investment company Intellectual Ventures and Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay today signed a MoU to license and commercialise inventions of students and faculty of the institute.
Suzuki will also meet Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, industry sources said. The country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India, majority owned by the Japanese firm, is investing up to Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion) in building test tracks and an R&D centre in Rohtak, Haryana.
'Let us remember that Make in India for defence must not be our goal.' 'The goal is to have a strong military to help the nation protect its identity and assert its will.'
India on Friday said it would come out with a new Defence Production Policy in the next two months under which domestic industries would certainly get orders for products developed by them after indigenous research.
With the domestic automart showing signs of correction, the country's largest car maker Maruti Suzuki India (MSI) is looking at strengthening its back-end operations by asking vendors to increase efficiency, besides building their own research and development capabilities.
The budget proposes to enhance the allocation to the Department of Information Technology from Rs 1952 crore in 2008-09 to Rs 2802 crore in 2009-10. The budget proposes allocation of Rs 600 crore towards establishing National Knowledge Network, Rs 900 crore towards e-Governance programme, Rs 550 crore towards National Informatics Centre and Rs 125 crore for Centre for Development of Advanced Computing for undertaking R&D.
The government is considering a proposal to extend the benefit of tax pass-through to domestic venture capital funds on investments across all sectors in the coming Budget.
Eyes investments of Rs 31,000 cr in research and manufacturing of electric vehicles
Speaking in favour of the US forging collaborations with Indian firms and academic institutes in the field of biopharma and healthcare sector, Pfizer President (Global R&D) Martin Mackay said not only there is a great willingness to collaborate in India, there is a great ability of Indian companies to adapt to western needs. India can be a major centre for innovation globally said Joe Smith, vice-president at Johnson & Johnson.
The reshaping programme has been announced to combine and streamline group's three global research and development operations into one Unilever R&D organisation to improve efficiency, a company statement said.
Paul Herrling, global head of Novartis' corporate research, spoke to Business Standard about the changing concepts in R&D and Novartis' strategy.
Asked about US President Barack Obama's proposal on tax restructuring, Chowdhry said he does not expect the move to affect Indian companies.
On Wednesday, Wipro Infotech in exclusive partnership with California-based ZResearch launched the Wipro Supernova range of supercomputers and superstorage systems in India.
Applications are invited from Indian Nationals for the award of "DBT-Postdoctoral Fellowship" for Biotechnology and applied biology.
Rather than going through the tedious, hit-or-miss process of physically designing hull forms and superstructures for warships and then determining how visible they are to radar, the company will simulate this process on supercomputers.
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