With the first decade of the 2000s completed, GE thought it would be a good time to toast a few of the many milestones reached over the last 10 years at GE Global Research — which is the company’s technology development arm. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in R&D since Jeff Immelt became chairman and CEO in 2001, resulting in dramatic expansions at research headquarters in Niskayuna, N.Y., and our center in Bangalore, India; the creation of global research centers in Munich and Shanghai; and new technology centers planned for Detroit, Mich., and Masdar City in the Middle East. Those investments either are, or soon will, produce an array of benefits for science, the marketplace and investors. To keep it short, we’ve highlighted four that are about to jump from the lab — and four that have already made the leap.
Original Article: General Electric marks a decade of laboratory innovation
