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How Cisco finds new business opportunities

Analysis
Aug 9, 20071 min

Cisco carves out some $4B of its $6.3B R&D budget for its Emerging Technologies Group to incubate potential opportunties and germinating them into Cisco’s next $1B business, reports Network World’s Jim Duffy.

Marthin De Beer, senior vice president of the Emerging Technologies Group. explains these opportunities are “like start-ups but they are not spin-ins,” or separate companies started by Cisco and then ‘acquired’ once they reach certain accomplishments.

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