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...create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans to hire hundreds of software engineers. "We want access to the phenomenal engineering talent graduating out of Indian universities," Ballmer told reporters. Intel hired 800 people in India last year, and CEO Craig Barrett last fall inaugurated construction of a new building...
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...
...create a mirror image of Google's U.S. research team in India. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer visited India a month later, unveiling a new campus and plans to hire hundreds of software engineers. "We want access to the phenomenal engineering talent graduating out of Indian universities," Ballmer told reporters. Intel hired 800 people in India last year, and CEO Craig Barrett last fall inaugurated construction of a new building...
...Giants like Intel and Microsoft are bellwethers for other technology firms, but the seeds of globalized R&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&D money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities for that...
...biggest potential obstacle, according to Gartner analyst Iyengar. "Indians tend to be less security sensitive than the clients," he says. "It's quite common for Indians to share salary information with each other. In the U.S., this is absolute heresy." At wholly owned research centers, like those run by Intel and Microsoft, security is less of a concern, says Stefan Spohr, a vice president at consulting firm A.T. Kearney. "You build firewalls. You educate your employees. It's really no different than...