Q.14 Due to the “Make in India” philosophy of the newly elected government, Sony corporation announced that it will soon start manufacturing its Bravia line of television sets in India. (a) Which dimensions of business environment has initiated this decision of Sony Corporation? Explain. (b) Discuss any other three dimensions of business environment.
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India. He shared few of his thoughts to me on India's electronics opportunities and NXP's role. Here are the excerpts.
What India can do in electronics in the next 5 to 10 years?
Neeraj Paliwal: India is poised to become design win powerhouse, that's my philosophy. In Manufacturing -- my view is that -- I think China has advantage over India, but India can also play a fare game, we have proven that in automotive, Chennai has become mini-Detroit. So even in Semiconductor -- we can do that, but if we look at where is our strength? Our strength is -- for every semiconductor company -- India is going to become with in next 3 to 5 years -- the decision maker on design level and technical level -- for design-wins and revenues. 10 years ago 80 to 90% of decision on --which product you use --which IC you use was done in western world. As of today after the initial contact is made, 60% of that decision is influenced (locally), because the product manager of that company says -- I can't finish the design of the product -- because of the type of support I get locally, so there is no deal, so we loose market revenue.
On Solar mission:
Neeraj Paliwal: From planning point of view we are doing well, from execution point of view, I think there is a lot that needs to be done. The number one thing I would say in Solar is, Technology in solar panels is expensive in west because installation cost is too high, that is one area, that's my personal read, where India can take advantage, just like the penetration of wireless. Leapfrog has happened in mobile wireless; I would say same thing will happen in solar. The wastage in electricity in India is tremendous, let's say if a big power house like Tata or somebody comes and starts a solar plant in every village in half acre of land, how
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