I.B.M. Adds an African Lab to Its Growing Global Research Network

[FarCenter]

I.B.M. is opening a research center in Nairobi, adding an African lab to its global network.

The announcement about the center is to be made Monday,

Kenya will be the fourth nation where I.B.M. has opened a research outpost in the last two years, after Ireland, Australia and Brazil. The Nairobi center will bring the number of I.B.M. research labs worldwide to 12. By now, about half the company’s 3,000-member research staff is outside the United States.

“I.B.M. has not only one of the few major corporate research programs standing, but it is expanding,” said Richard Doherty, an analyst at the Envisioneering Group, a technology research firm.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/13/i-b-m-adds-africa-to-its-growing-global-research-network

More outsourcing.

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. IBM's "outsourcing" of some research just brought them 2 Nobel Prizes, that's all

for (relatively) high temperature superconductivity, and the scanning tunnel electron microscope. I can see how you'd call that level of research "outsourcing". It's obvious that it's much better to wait for an American to make any breakthrough in physics, isn't it?

[HopeHoops]

2. The word "outpost" is telling. It doesn't really 'splain the location, but natural resources?

[Posteritatis]

3. It's also the blogger's wording, not IBM's. (nt)

[FarCenter]

4. Here's the IBM press release

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/38568.wss

[HopeHoops]

5. Good point.