bengaluru bengaluru remains home to the highest number of multinational rd centres and talent pool in india new entrants last year included twitter it is estimated that the numbers will rise significantly over the coming years as disruptive new technologies make it imperative for mncs to use indias huge engineering talent pool as much as 48 or 155000 of the mnc rd workforce of 323000 in india is in bengaluru as per a study by research firm zinnov consulting for 2015 pune follows with 40300 a quarter of that in bengaluru ncr is third with 31000 bengaluru also accounts for 456 of the 1165 mnc rd centres in india there are 928 mncs with some having multiple centres in indiaan rd professional is one who is involved in some part of product development toi reported in december that india remains the no 1location for mncs to establish product engineering and rd centres the growth of these centres in india is outpac ing the average global growth india accounted for 123 billion or 40 of the total of 31 billion of globalized engineering and rd in 2015many of the worlds biggest companies have centres in india in 2015 15 new mncs entered india including twitter gionee mapr kelloggs sealed air and cleo zinnov estimates that by 2020 the number of mncs with centres in india will climb to 1139 from 928 now and their workforce will rise by 57 to 508000 from 323000 new technologies like big data analytics mobility uiux user interfaceuser experience machine learn ing artificial intelligence and cloud are really disrup tive and the need to do rd in india in these areas wil rise sharply no other coun try outside the us can provide the scale of engineers that india can anand subramaniam program manager at zinnov says the costs in india are also a fraction of that in the us subramaniam says software is becoming an integral part of every industry this makes india with its traditional strength in software particularly valuable to mncs pune is gaining from the increasing use of software in the automotive industry the technology startup phenomenon is also helping to expand the required talent pool