Wipro ranked leader in global R&D service provider survey

BANGALORE: IT major Wipro today said it has been ranked as a leader in the global R&D service provider survey by Zinnov Management Consulting for the fourth successive year. Zinnov's 'global R&D service provider rating 2013' has recognised Wipro as a leader among seven industries comprising consumer electronics, telecommunications, semiconductors, computing peripherals & storage, automotive, enterprise software and consumer software, the city-based firm said in a release.

Zinnov has evaluated these ratings on five key parameters -- scalability, R&D practice maturity, breadth of R&D services, innovation and ecosystem connects, it added.

Zinnov is a globalisation and market expansion advisory firm that helps companies globalise their R&D/ product engineering activities.

The release said Zinnov has comprehensively analysed the top 75 R&D service providers across the world in 13 major industry segments.