India: Self-Reliance
India is among six countries that launch
satellites and do so even for Germany,
Belgium, South Korea, Singapore and EU
countries.
India's INSAT is among the world's largest
domestic satellite communication systems.
India’s Geosynchronous Satellite Launch
Vehicle (GSLV) was indigenously
manufactured with most of the components
like motor cases, inter-stages, heat shield,
cryogenic engine, electronic modules all
manufactured by public and private Indian
industry.
Kalpana Chawla was one of the
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seven
astronauts in the Columbia space shuttle
when it disintegrated over Texas skies just 16
minutesbefore its scheduled landing on Feb
1st 2003, she was the second Indian in space.
Back in 1968, India imported 9M tonnes of
food-grains to support its people, through a
grand programme of national self-sufficiency
which started in 1971, today, it now has a food
grain surplus stock of 60M.
India is among the 3 countries in the World
that have built Supercomputers on their own.
The other two countries being USA and Japan.
India built its own Supercomputer after the
USA denied India purchasing a Cray computer
back in 1987.
India’s new ‘PARAM Padma’ Terascale
Supercomputer (1 Trillion processes per sec.)
is also amongst only 4 nations in the world to
have this capability.
India is providing aid to 11 countries, writing-
off their debt and loaning the IMF $300M.
It has also prepaid $3Billion owed to the
World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
India: Pharmaceuticals
The Indian pharmaceutical industry at $6.5 billion and growing at 8-10%
annually, is the 4th largest pharmaceutical industry in the world, and is
expected to be worth $12 billion by 2008.
Its exports are over $2 billion. India is among the top five bulk drug makers and at
home, the local industry has edged out the Multi-National companies whose share
of 75% in the market is down to 35%.
Trade of medicinal plants has crossed $900M already.
There are 170 biotechnology companies in India, involved in the development
and manufacture of genomic drugs, whose business is growing exponentially.
Sequencing genes and delivering genomic information for big
Pharmaceutical companies is the next boom industry in India.
Top 5 American employers in India:
General Electric:
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
American Express
Dell
General Electric (GE) with $80 Million invested in India employs 16,000 staff, 1,600 R&D staff who are
qualified with PhD’s and Master’s degrees.
The number of patents filed in USA by the Indian entities of some of the MNCs (upto September,
2002) are as follows: Texas Instruments - 225, Intel - 125, Cisco Systems - 120, IBM - 120, Phillips -
102, GE - 95.
Staff at the offices of Intel (India) has gone up from 10 to 1,000 in 4 years,
and will reach 2000 staff by 2006.
GE's R&D centre in Bangalore is the company's largest research outfit outside the United States. The
centre also devotes 20% of its resources on 5 to 10 year fundamental research in areas such as
nanotechnology, hydrogen energy, photonics, and advanced propulsion.
It is estimated that there are 150,000 IT professionals in Bangalore as against 120,000 in Silicon Valley.
: 17,800 employees
: 11,000 employees
: 6,000 employees
: 4,000 employees
: 3,800 employees
India: R&D Labs
Highlights
Established in 1984. The centre started with just 20 people, now has 900 people working on VLSI and
embedded software, which goes along with a chip or into the chip.
India Development Centre, Bangalore,
Hyderabad.
India Engineering Centre,
Bangalore
R&D Centre,
Bangalore and Mumbai.
The Bangalore centre was established in 1994; the Hyderabad one in 1999. Oracle’s largest
development centre outside the US currently has 6,000 staff. Does work on Oracle's database
products, applications, business intelligence products and application development tools, besides
other activities.
Established in mid-1999 with 20 people, has scaled up to 500 people today. Does work mainly on
Sun's software which includes Solaris and Sun One.
Established in 1988 with 20 people, has scaled up to 1,000 today. Drives nearly 60 percent of the
company’s global development delivery.
Software Lab,
Bangalore, Pune.
Established in 2001. Works on all IBM software like WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and Rational. The
centre has added many new areas of activities such as middleware and business intelligence.
Innovation Campus, Bangalore.
Established in November 1998 with 100 people, the Lab swill be scaled up to 1500 by the end of
2004. That will double 3000 staff by middle of 2006. It is the largest single-location R&D lab for SAP
outside Walldorf, Germany. Nearly 10 percent of SAP's total R&D work is carried out from the Indian
lab.
Established in 1996 with 10 people, has scaled up to 895 people today, and will be further scaled up
to 1,000 before the end of 2003. Works on developing software for Philips products. Almost all Philips
products that use software have some contribution from this centre. It is the largest software centre for
Philips outside Holland.
Established in 2002 with just two people, has scaled up to 20 specialists today. Plans exist to double
its headcount by the beginning of 2004. Is totally dedicated to high-level research on futuristic
technologies, with special focus on emerging markets.
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