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The pace with which companies have set up R&D centres in emerging markets such as India and China has quickened to the point where these countries are today the most favoured destinations for global R&D.
As the worst recession in recent history takes root worldwide, managers are doing what they always do in tough times. First they start worrying, and then they start cutting costs. This is a natural response to try and balance the books when revenues have started to dry...
Necessity, goes the adage, is the mother of invention. Alas, mere invention is not good enough these days. Far more important is converting inventions into innovations: namely, products and services that improve consumers’ lives and firms’ performance.
The recent election of Barack Obama raises the question: can a single individual make a difference to how a large group such as a nation thinks and acts in the long term?
All national attempts to spur innovation from the top down are doomed unless firms themselves foster a culture of innovation
A particularly impressive aspect of India’s economic performance is the manner in which its firms are internationalising. Hardly a day goes by without news of an Indian firm acquiring some venerable Western brand.
On August 10, while half the world slept, India awoke to the news that it had won an individual gold for the first time in Olympic history. By the end of the day the name Abhinav Bindra was on a billion lips.
