EMC Corp, the Hopkinton, Massachusetts firm making such a noise with its disk arrays for IBM Corp mainframe users, will is taking advantage of the large pool of trained talent – boosted by large numbers of immigrants from the former Soviet Union, and will open a Research and Development Center in Tel Aviv, Israel on June 1. According to Israel’s Ministry of Industry & Trade the country has about twice the number of scientists and engineers per capita involved in research and development work than the US and Japan and five times the number in South Korea: 135 per 10,000 in the workforce against 70 per 10,000 in the US, 65 in Japan and 25 in South Korea. Firms with Israeli research arms include Intel Corp, Microsoft Corp, IBM Corp and Motorola Inc.
