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India needs corporate mandate on R&D: Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu

India requires a corporate mandate on Research & Development similar to CSR to promote a technology innovation culture which will help build critical technologies here in the country, Zoho Corporation's founder Sridhar Vembu said. The Padma Shree awardee and CEO of the country's first billion-dollar IT product company said the country lacks a culture of its own R&D and pointed out that merely having manufacturing facilities of global tech product companies like Apple will not bring "high income jobs" for people at large in India. "A corporate mandate to spend one or two per cent on R&D is needed for India like the two per cent CSR (corporate social responsibility) mandate. It is a high potential investment," Vembu stated in a brief interview with PTI. He was in the city recently to deliver his lecture on 'Transforming the Indian Economy' organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Swadeshi Research Institute. The government has expanded the scope of CSR to R&D but .

Samsung Electronics' R&D centre in Vietnam to kick-start operations soon

Samsung Electronics' Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong left for Vietnam on Wednesday to attend an opening ceremony of a research and development (R&D) centre there.

Samsung to hire 1,000 engineers for its research facilities in India

New employees will join the company in 2023 to work on AI, machine learning, other fields

Bureau of Indian Standards signs MoU with 6 engineering institutes

Institutes will set up 'BIS Standardisation Chair Professor' as part of agreement

Stephen Hermitage joins Sai Life Sciences as VP, CMC

/ -- Sai Life Sciences, a leading global Contract Research, Development & Manufacturing Organisation (CRO-CDMO), today announced the joining of Stephen Hermitage (Steve) as Vice President, CMC. In this role Steve will join the global R&D leadership team at Sai Life Sciences, where he will add further deep scientific, process development and drug development experience to the R&D organisation. Making the announcement, Sauri Gudlavalleti, Chief Operating Officer said, "Over the past few years, our team has established a formidable reputation for itself as a high-quality scientific unit that can solve complex chemistry challenges. I am delighted to welcome Steve, a pharma industry veteran, onboard at Sai Life Sciences. His addition to our global delivery team further strengthens our ongoing efforts to build strong client partnerships and exceed client expectations by raising the bar on innovation, speed, and efficiency. Steve joins Sai Life Sciences from GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)

Apple pauses hiring for many roles besides R&D in escalation of cost cuts

The pause generally doesn't apply to teams working on future devices and long-term initiatives, but it affects some corporate functions and standard hardware and software engineering roles

Silicon Laboratories opens new unit in Hyderabad, plans to triple workforce

The new facility would be the largest global centre for Silicon Lab's engineering and wireless connectivity innovation

In a first, all IITs to collaborate for a mega R&D event on October 14-15

Apart from the 75 projects, the event will also have six showcase projects

IISc, Shell India partner to promote R&D in energy and environment

Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and Shell India have entered into a partnership to promote research and development in the areas of energy and environment. The partnership seeks to build on cutting-edge energy and environment related research being carried out at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Energy Research (ICER), IISc, an IISc statement said. A research agreement was signed at the institute in the presence of IISc Director Prof Govindan Rangarajan and Chief Technology Officer at Shell, Yuri Sebregts, on Thursday. The key aspects that the partnership will focus on include reducing Green House Gas emissions and promoting decarbonisation through innovations such as low-carbon fuels, distributed electrification, carbon sinks, hydrogen generation, efficient power and refrigeration cycles using supercritical carbon dioxide. Structured research projects will be initiated under this research agreement involving Shell scientists as well as faculty members and students at the ...

Digital engineering taking lead in engineering R&D in India: Report

NASSCOM and Deloitte study calls for improving the ease of doing business and addressing concerns about patents

Samsung expands R-D innovation programme to 70 Indian engineering colleges

Samsung on Monday announced to expand its industry-academia programme to 70 engineering colleges in India, to help create a pool of talent for new-age R&D challenges.

Centre unveils platform for better industry and R&D collaboration

Government on Tuesday unveiled a platform to drive collaboration between the industry and research institutes to implement technology-based social impact innovations and solutions in the country. The launch of Manthan, a platform that promises to augment our efforts to build and nurture industry participation in R&D, is also a testimony of our commitment to the UN's SDG goals, the Principal Scientific Adviser (PSA) to the government, Ajay Kumar Sood, said in a statement here. Powered by NSEIT, the Manthan platform will help scale up interactions among stakeholders, facilitate research and innovation, and share challenges in various emerging technologies and scientific interventions, including those that make a social impact, an official statement said. The platform will provide the necessary fulcrum for transforming the nation through innovative ideas, inventive minds, and public-private-academia collaboration to achieve th country's sustainability goals, said Parvinder Maini, ...

Microsoft lays off more workers, this time from consumer R&D team: Report

Microsoft, which laid off 1 per cent or 1,800 employees in July, has asked around 200 more employees to go, this time from one of its customer-focused R&D projects, the media reported on Wednesday.

We're geared to launch a new molecule every 1-2 years: Biocon Biologics MD

In an interview, Arun Chandravarkar explains why a company must continue investing in R&D despite the impact on short-term Ebitda

Explained: What is Indian Antarctic Bill 2022 and why is it important

The Indian Antarctic Bill provides a regulatory framework for India's Antarctic activities through legal mechanisms

FDI inflow in R&D sector grows six-fold YoY to Rs 344 million in 2021

Karnataka attracted the most FDI in this space, followed by Telangana and Haryana. Flows into Karnataka were up more than 250% YoY

R&D jobs in India increase by 42% in 3 years; searches up too: Indeed

Job postings in R&D also grew by over 40 per cent between May 2020 and 2021, said Indeed. Among job seekers, searches for roles in R&D increased 21 per cent in the last three years

PE firm Multiples picks up 9.3% stake in BDR Pharma for Rs 685 cr

Multiples is the first private equity (PE) investor in BDR Pharma

Engineering R&D segment to outperform IT services players in FY23

Barring Cyient, valuations of most ER&D firms on the expensive side

BS Number Wise: Indian private sector's R&D aversion

Share of companies not reporting any spending on research is increasing; two sectors contribute to most of the spending