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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Besides Dr Reddy's, several leading Indian firms are pioneering polycentric innovation: Tata Motors. Polycentric innovation won't work in organizations that promote groupthink.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

Further, the growing number of patent applications fild with China's State Intellectual Property Office suggests that the country will become the world's largest patents-holder by 2011. Haiyan Wang is the managing partner of the China India Institute. According to experts, though, many of these applications don't amount to much.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. It started 30 years ago with the progressive and unusual step (for that time) of shifting from local nationals as country managers to global leaders from other countries. America fosters risk-taking and innovation by entrepreneurs who become global leaders.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Customers Innovation Technology'