S.F. mayor in India pioneering deals:
"Hot on the heels of India's prime ministerial visit to Washington, a 50-plus-member Bay Area delegation arrived in Bangalore today, ready to do business."
San Francisco's developing ties with the "Silicon Valley of India" might not quite achieve the status as a "defining partnership of the 21st century" - as President Obama described the U.S. relationship with India - but the delegation, headed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, is scheduled to sign some concrete deals during its three-day trip, some in fields, like clean energy, in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Obama said the two countries would cooperate.
"San Francisco will be the first city in the nation to implement some of the cooperation agreements," said Jim Herlihy, co-chairman of the San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative ( www.sfbangalore.org).
In addition to a biotech project linking UCSF with a Bangalore company, the two cities are set to sign agreements aimed at increasing the two-way flow of business, investment, IT, clean-energy initiatives and tourism.
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"Hot on the heels of India's prime ministerial visit to Washington, a 50-plus-member Bay Area delegation arrived in Bangalore today, ready to do business."
San Francisco's developing ties with the "Silicon Valley of India" might not quite achieve the status as a "defining partnership of the 21st century" - as President Obama described the U.S. relationship with India - but the delegation, headed by Mayor Gavin Newsom, is scheduled to sign some concrete deals during its three-day trip, some in fields, like clean energy, in which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Obama said the two countries would cooperate.
"San Francisco will be the first city in the nation to implement some of the cooperation agreements," said Jim Herlihy, co-chairman of the San Francisco-Bangalore Sister City Initiative ( www.sfbangalore.org).
In addition to a biotech project linking UCSF with a Bangalore company, the two cities are set to sign agreements aimed at increasing the two-way flow of business, investment, IT, clean-energy initiatives and tourism.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/28/BUS91ANE2T.DTL&type=business#ixzz0YGB06RRI