In 2009, NCR's Dundee factory closed with the loss of hundreds of jobs but it maintained its research and development facility in the city.
We had an opportunity to test both smartphones in a head-to-head demo at Nokia's research and development facility in Tampere, Finland, about two hours north of the company's Espoo headquarters.
The move is a boost to the UK pharmaceutical industry, which suffered a serious blow when US drugs giant Pfizer announced a year ago that it would close its research and development facility in Sandwich, Kent - with the loss of about 1, 500 jobs.
"We are hopeful that Vestas will go ahead with their plans for a research and development facility on the Isle of Wight which could provide up to a further 300 jobs and also help develop and test products that are suitable for the UK offshore market, " she said.
It drains limited resources and prevents investments in other areas such as facility upgrade, process improvement and research and development.
The company is also building a new facility on the campus to house research and development.
The new facility is its largest center for cookie research and development in Asia, and its output will allow Kraft to create new product platforms tailored to suit local tastes.
The new manufacturing technique has been under development for two years and is still in a research facility, hidden among the grubby buildings of Pirelli's sprawling Bicocca plant on the outskirts of Milan.
When it opens in the first quarter, the facility will be Ford's first dedicated research-and-development office on the West Coast.
Two research-and-development people work year-round at the company's mill, a one-story facility about the size of a suburban supermarket nestled in a valley in Vermont's Green Mountains.
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