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GLOBALIZATION IN ACTION Global Reach: Industry Is Shopping Abroad for Good Ideas to Apply to Products

29 October, 2015 - 17:46

As competition grows and as national differences decline in products ranging from cars to computers to consumer goods, companies scour the world for technology. Businesses without research centers in other countries are opening them. And companies are asking their overseas scientists to do more than adapt products to local markets. Today's objective is technology that can be applied world-wide.