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Rory Horner wins 2013 Peter Gould Student Paper Competition

Rory Horner won 2013 Peter Gould Student Paper Competition of the Association of American Geographers’ Health and Medical Geography Specialty Group, on a paper entitled
“Rising powers as harbingers of public-health oriented patent law? The Indian pharmaceutical industry and economic geographies underlying health.” Congratulations, Rory!

New Article: Research and Development Facilities in India

Abstract:

India has emerged as a preferred location for corporate R&D and strategic marketing facilities. Until a decade ago, these functions were conducted almost exclusively near the corporate headquarters of MNEs in the developed world. One reason for the relocation of these functions to India is its changing role as a source of market information.  With the saturation of the markets in the developed world, MNEs are increasingly interested in cultivating the bottom-of-the-pyramid market, which makes India an ideal location to collect market knowledge.  In this paper, we focus on the emerging relationship between markets and MNEs in India. Drawing on interviews with MNEs in Bangalore, we show how the perception of India as a location of innovation has begun to change, and discuss how India has begun to serve as an ideal location for market knowledge gathering activities by MNEs. We argue that their new orientation offers a window of opportunity that has implications for other developing economies, and conclude that India’s unique combination of market assets have played an important role in enabling MNEs to upgrade their functions.

Aoyama, Yuko and Balaji Parthasarathy.  “Research and Development Facilities of Multinational Enterprises in India”, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 53, 6 (2012): 713-730

 

 

Yuko Aoyama awarded a NSF grant

Yuko Aoyama (PI) has been awarded a $269,999 National Science Foundation grant for support of the project entitled “The Global Shift in R&D Alliances: Multinational Enterprises (MNEs) and the Quest for the Base-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) Markets.”   This grant will support a 3-year project, and will be in collaboration with Dr. Balaji Parthasarathy (Co-PI), the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.  June 2011

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Dan Haberly’s article tops SSRN.

Daniel Haberly’s forthcoming article in Environment and Planning A, entitled “Strategic Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment and the New Alliance Capitalism: A Network Mapping Investigation”, was ranked No.1 in downloads in Social Science Research Network (SSRN), under the category of journal of INTL: Policy Environment (December 13, 2010 to February 11, 2011).