![]() ![]() The 'multi-shoring model' has become very common, meaning BPO India also competes with China, Mexico, Philippines and Eastern Europe. Growth in the Indian BPO segment has slowed to about half its previous rate of 30%, existing contracts are being renegotiated for lower rates, and deals are taking longer to close. to save costs but will that keep them here, as labour cost advantages continue to be eroded, by currency fluctuation, salary inflation and technology advances changing the very nature of IT-led services. All this contributed to the world's leading technology companies setting up operations here. Bangalore, in particular, had a high number of English-speaking graduates with 86% overall literacy, some of India's top science and technology institutes, a mild climate and business-forward local and state government policies and taxation. ![]() It's also in the 24/7 time zone, offers world-class telecom and private infrastructure and has proven its delivery capability of complex IT services. Hyper-growth of the sort Bangalore has suffered and prospered from (a doubling of population since early '90s) brought these infrastructure challenges.But, what triggered the IT BPO boom twenty five years ago? What did Bangalore do? And will it sustain its advantages during these times of lowered global economic growth? The economic reforms of 1991 and the lower labour cost of highly educated staff first brought India to the world's attention. But most of this took place centuries ago.and when walking around the streets of Bangalore, I wondered what had happened to the skills of city planning, and sewage management, which there is also clear evidence of in past Indus valley civilisations. I've had an amazingly warm South Indian welcome here and quickly learned that Indians also proudly claim to have invented the number system and other mathematical concepts, chess, various metal working techniques, numerous textiles and finishing methods, Ayurvedic medicine (including surgery and anaesthetics), yoga, and several discoveries in astronomy. Oops! Thankfully, I didn't lose the work over my ignorance and I immediately booked my flight to Bangalore for first-hand enlightenment in India's technological hub. I responded, "Yeah, I couldn't think of any either" and he very politely countered by saying, "No, I meant the number zero". When I asked the professor if he could name some for me, he said "Zero". I couldn't think of a single Indian invention, recent or ancient. Being surface-bound, all cellular activity resulting from P-15 Osteogenic Cell Binding Peptide attachment is restricted to the implant surface so bone cannot grow where it doesn’t belong (ectopic bone growth).When I was first asked to conduct research about innovation in India for a leading UK university, I immediately wondered if those two words had any business being linked together. This unique combination creates a surface-bound “Attract, Attach, Activate” mechanism of action that enhances the body’s natural bone healing process. I-FACTOR ™ Bone Graft is the only biologic bone graft made of a small peptide, P-15 Osteogenic Cell Binding Peptide, bound to an anorganic bone mineral (ABM). Unfortunately, the viability of cells in non-vascularized, processed allogeneic bone grafts (cellular bone matrix) is unknown. Some would suggest that this only occurs when autogenous bone has been implanted immediately or when a bone graft substitute has been enriched with autogenous cells. ![]() ![]() Where rhBMPs have been engineered to maintain the growth factors, the processing of DBMs causes significant variability in the amount of osteoinductive factors that remain in the final product.Ī bone graft is considered osteogenic if it contains living osteogenic cells that are able to survive in the host environment. Only a bone graft that is preserved with an osteoinductive factor (e.g., members of the transforming growth factor family) can be considered osteoinductive. An osteoinductive bone graft (rhBMP, formulated DBM) is defined as a material that can induce the differentiation of mesenchymal cells into osteoblasts. Resorption time, porosity, and mechanical strength can vary widely in this class of products. Whether natural (allograft, simple demineralized bone matrix) or synthetic (hydroxyapatite, calcium phosphate), structure is key to an osteoconductive scaffold providing a suitable workplace for bone forming cells. The way a bone grafting technology works depends on many factors including the properties of the graft itself. ![]()
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