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...cabin, Ochiai felt the plane go into what she called a hira-hira, a word that describes the falling of a leaf, gentle and twisting. Radar now placed the plane at 21,860 ft., near the altitude its crew had requested. About three minutes later, Tokyo told the crew where the plane was: "You are now 72 nautical miles from Nagoya. Do you want to land at Nagoya?" A coastal city, Nagoya is 160 miles southwest of Tokyo. But the crew wished to get back to Haneda. The aircraft was now climbing again, back to 24,500 ft., and slowing...
Giants like Intel and Microsoft are bellwethers for other technology firms, but the seeds of globalized R. and D. were planted decades earlier. "The old model of research was Bell Labs'," says Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Working on everything from basic science to prototypes of new products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R.-and-D. money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities...
More recently, the digital revolution narrowed the focus of R. and D. to software. From cars to cell phones to toasters, "a large part of the value of a project becomes embedded in the software," Hira says. So countries like India, with strong capabilities in software development, have gained leverage in attracting the work. Joining the tech companies congregating in Bangalore is a diverse group of manufacturers developing software for their products. Philips, the Dutch consumer-electronics giant, develops and tests software for DVD players and flat-screen TVs. General Motors opened a research lab, its first outside...
...resources to India and China--even legendary Bell Labs has a research center in Bangalore--some observers are worried about what it means for the U.S. economy. With companies able to tap into the best talent all over the world, "that's a plus because it adds to innovation," Hira says. But when growth abroad is substituted for growth here, the U.S. loses the happy spillover of investing in research--all those new firms in Silicon Valley, around Austin, Texas, and along Boston's Route 128. If Bangalore and Beijing become the new cradles of innovation, is that where...
...resources to India and China?even legendary Bell Labs has a research center in Bangalore?some observers are worried about what it means for the U.S. economy. With companies able to tap into the best talent all over the world, "that's a plus because it adds to innovation," Hira says. But when growth abroad is substituted for growth here, the U.S. loses the happy spillover of investing in research?all those new firms in Silicon Valley, around Austin, Texas, and along Boston's Route 128. If Bangalore and Beijing become the new cradles of innovation, is that where...