Manufacturing Industry
Alcoa establishes center of excellence in Russia.(GLOBAL ECONOMY)(Innovation Center of Excellence)(Brief article)
Advanced Materials & Processes, April, 2007
Alcoa has established an Innovation Center of Excellence with leading universities in Russia to work on aluminum research and development projects focused on innovative mining, refining, and smelting technologies. Alcoa has signed agreements with Moscow State University in Moscow, St. Petersburg State Mining Institute in St.
Petersburg, and Ural Polytechnic University in Ekaterinburg. This new center complements the projects already started by Alcoa in Russia, and is part of a broader open innovation business model that focuses on leveraging R & D resources in rapidly developing countries. For example, Alcoa has signed a memorandum of understanding with India's Council of Scientific & Industrial Research to partner in collaborative research projects that...
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