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