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When the largest utility in Central Europe began building Europe’s largest onshore wind farm last year, GE was there, supplying 139 of its giant 2.5xl wind turbines. Now, with construction of the first phase well underway, GE Energy has inked a new deal to provide up to 101 additional turbines. [...]

Earlier today, GE announced that it’s become one of the founding members of a new Japanese-government-led initiative designed to accelerate the development of new clean energy, environmental and healthcare technologies. GE will be one of 16 corporations — and the only U.S.-based company — to each invest $5.3 million in [...]

Thousands of government and industrial leaders are currently gathering at the Singapore International Water Week conference to focus on the urgent need for industrialized and developing countries to solve worldwide water scarcity challenges. It’s with these critical issues on tap that GE and the National University of Singapore officially [...]

GE and the government of Nigeria today signed an agreement that may soon pave the way for a host of new collaborative projects in areas such as railway infrastructure development, oil and gas processing, electric power generation, water treatment, healthcare, aviation and integrated safety and security systems.

As Vijay Govindarajan, GE’s chief innovation consultant, described in his GEreports post on Wednesday, the rise of emerging markets such as India and China mark a new phase of globalization. A key component of meeting this challenge is making products “scalable” — which is all about taking locally innovated products [...]

Contributor Vijay Govindarajan is a Professor at the Tuck School at Dartmouth and Chief Innovation Consultant at GE.
Today, more than half of GE’s revenues come from outside the United States. The company’s more than 300,000 employees work in 160 counties. And GE’s globalization efforts have helped cement its [...]

The network of 30,000 technologists working across GE now have more elbow room to find the next high-tech breakthrough. Our technology development arm, GE Global Research, just announced the opening of its newest research space — a 350,000 sq. ft. building at its technology campus in Bangalore, India. The new [...]