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India & innovation: Why hasn’t India produced an Apple, Google or Microsoft?
January 8, 2010

A New York Times article recently made an interesting observation: While American and European workers worry about their jobs being outsourced to India, Indians are worried that their country will be more like “Scranton PA” rather than “Silicon Valley.” In other words they worry over the fact that while India has achieved phenomenal success in becoming the world’s back office, it has not quickly moved up the value chain into more lucrative work. So why hasn’t India itself produced an Apple, Google or Microsoft and can India actually innovate? Read more

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R&D outsourcing growing faster than total R&D spending
November 24, 2009

A report from the Center for Research in Innovation and Competition in the University of Manchester concludes, “Firms, even large multinational corporations, can no longer expect to be totally dependent on their in-house research and technology resources to maintain innovative performance.” Read more

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The sinking H-1B visa program: Will innovation need to be outsourced?
November 10, 2009

Over the past year, the deteriorating US economy combined with anti-immigration politics has hit the H-1B visa program – a critical source of talent and innovation for both Silicon Valley and Wall Street alike. In fact, the Wall Street Journal recently reported that the program has plenty of spaces left to be filled as only 46,700 petitions have been filed as of September 25. In sharp contrast, it took only one day to fill up all 65,000 slots for 2009 – just before the recession began to bite. The Wall Street Journal also noted that in 2008, 44% of approved petitions were for foreigners who work as systems analysts or programmers while the second largest category consisted of professionals who work in universities. Furthermore, it was also noted that Indians accounted for approximately half of all H-1B visa holders. Read more

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Multisourcing – Future Supply Chain
August 20, 2009

Imagine a $1 billion international jewellery retailer, who cuts and polishes his diamonds in China, gets them designed in Italy and hawks them on the high streets of US, while he overseas this whole operation from his Prasad Chambers Opera House office in Mumbai, India! Read more

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