Microsoft, which spends nearly $7 billion annually for product innovation and research, is already present in the country with two research centres--in Hyderabad and Bangalore. The Hyderabad centre, established as early as 1998 and known as Microsoft India Development Center, has nearly 1,400 developers, who are working on more than 50 different Microsoft projects.
The international chemical giant Dow will invest $100 million in Research and Development (R&D) facility at Chakan, near Pune. The centre may be fully functional by 2010. The R&D facility would come up in the 100-acres, and will employ 500 researchers.
A World Bank report says that in comparison to 708 R&D researchers per million population in China, the number was a dismal 119 in India in 2004. While the same is 3,319 in Russian Federation, in Brazil the number of researchers per million population is a much better 344.
Of the 23 companies, eight have raised funds after Shark Tank India.
Brocade, a US based software company, and one of the leading providers of networked storage solution has opened a world class research and development facility here.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed the company's plans to enter the Indian market, within days of the electric vehicle maker registering its arm in the country.
'Favourable product mix, sales recovery, and cost saving initiatives are expected to support margins going ahead while focus on debt reduction (target of debt free by FY24) will aid balance sheet strength'
MSI expects the royalty paid to parent Suzuki Motor Corp to come down starting with its upcoming compact SUV as its engineers enhance their role in the joint development of future products.
The new pharma policy proposed by Chemicals Minister Ram Vilas Paswan is likely to call for a central mechanism to oversee research and development projects in the country.
Tata Motors and drugmaker Ranbaxy are among the seven Indian firms in the world's top 1,250 companies ranked on the basis of investments in research and development. According to a study by the UK government, the world's top 1,250 R&D investment companies together spent 244 billion pounds ($507 billion) in 2006, up 10 per cent from the previous year.
HMIL president Ashok Jha did not rule out the possibility of research on developing low-end cars priced between Rs 1 lakh and Rs 2 lakh. The R&D unit will come up with an investment of $40 million over 15 acres and will be operational in a year's time.
Nokia has expanded its research and development facility in Bangalore with the inauguration of a 210,000 sq ft development centre at the Prestige Tech Park in the IT corridor.
Global data networking company, Cisco Systems on Wednesday hinted at setting up its manufacturing plant in India, which will include some of its mainline products like routers and switches.
Mumbai-based Indian Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ISMC) and Singapore-headquartered IGSS Ventures have one strategy in common: They have told the government in their application for semiconductor fabrication plants that they will export the bulk of the chips they make in India in the initial five or 10 years. The third applicant, Vedanta-Foxconn, which is also building a fab plant, has said it will concentrate on the needs of consumer electronics and mobile device markets, and earmark 80 per cent of output for domestic consumption, but has not specified its customers. Finding a viable domestic market could well be the biggest challenge for India's renewed tryst with semiconductors. Fab plants do not sell directly to end users but to intermediary chip design companies - such as Qualcomm or MediaTek.
In what is one of the company's biggest releases, the US-based software solutions major Adobe today unveiled the Creative Suite 3 product line, comprising 6 suites.
Research and development has become a critical part of the operations of information technology service provider firms in India
US-based products and services company, DuPont on Wednesday said it will open a knowledge centre in Hyderabad with an investment of $50 million and accommodate 500 R&D professionals in the first phase.
While the manufacturing facility would be located in the Jawahar Pharma City, a pharma special economic zone near Visakhapatnam, the R&D facility would be set up in the phase 3 biotech park near Hyderabad.
Indian players like Tata and Mahindra have low R&D spends (1 per cent and 1.5 per cent of sales respectively) as compared to the global players (about 4 per cent of sales), AT Kearney's 10th Townsend report said.
The Tata group's tryst with mobile services, with either CDMA or GSM technology, did not really fly, forcing it to close operations and write off losses. Now the group is back in the big game, this time straddling the telecom equipment, network and technology space in India as well as the global market. To this end, it is leveraging the opportunities that flow from 5G technology through open radio access network, or O-RAN. Recently, the Tata Sons' subsidiary Panatone Finvest acquired 43.3 per cent in Bengaluru-based telecom equipment manufacturer Tejas Network for Rs 1,850 crore and announced it would buy another 26 per cent of the voting capital through an open offer.
These jobs saw a surge in demand in April, according to TimesJobs' latest report.
In order to make India a cost effective knowledge hub, there was an urgent need for creating "attractive" job opportunities for those who take up basic sciences as a career and scaling investments in R&D, President A P J Abdul Kalam said on Monday.
Chinese telecom equipment vendor Huawei Technologies will invest $100 million in India on its R&D centre in Bangalore and set up a manufacturing facility in India as and when approval for the same comes. \n
Swedish telecom equipment supplier Ericsson on Monday announced setting up a R&D centre in Chennai and an investment of $100 million to upgrade the manufacturing facility in India.
Like the Shourya and Prahar missiles, the Pralay is powered by conventional solid fuel, and its payload is designed to carry only a conventional warhead.
German component major Bosch on Monday said it is setting up a second R&D engineering centre in India where it hopes to hire 1,500 engineers over the next five years.
The centre is expected to enhance our existing in-house research and development resources.
In India, the company serves customers such as stock exchanges, brokers, non-banking financial companies, financial services and insurance, IT and IT-enabled services.
Pharmaceutical and biotechnology major Wockhardt on Monday said it would invest Rs 50 crore (Rs 500 million) for setting up a research and development centre in Aurangabad.
Shares of HCL Tech hit a fresh record high of Rs 1,118.55 on Friday, up 2 per cent on the BSE in intra-day trade, surpassing its previous high of Rs 1,101 touched on Thursday in intra-day deals.
Telecom equipment maker Motorola plans to invest $17 million and hire nearly 500 people at its India R&D centre here every year, officials said on Thursday.\n\n
According to Nasscom, India must make its R&D significantly more robust to realise the 'Make in India' dream
The Xi Jinping regime might try to quell internal distress by directing nationalism and militarism against India, warn Ajay Shah and Gautam Bambawale.
COVAXIN, developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech in collaboration with Indian Council of Medical Research and National Institute of Virology, has got the nod for human clinical trials from the Drug Controller General of India
The company employs 4,200 people across three centres in Noida and Bengaluru, which together employ a fourth of its global workforce
Safety and Efficacy results from the final analysis will be available in June, and the final report will be submitted to a peer-reviewed publication.
iSOFT R&D Pvt Ltd, the Indian subsidiary of iSOFT group, one of the world's leading suppliers of application systems for hospitals and healthcare organisations
