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Top 5 American employers in India are General electric with 17,800 employees, Hewlett-Packard with 11,000 employees, IBM with around 6,000 employees, American Express with 4000, Dell with almost 3,800 employees.
General Electric (GE) with $80 Million invested in India employs 16,000 staff, 1,600 R&D staff who are qualified with PhDs and Masters 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.