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Was Nokia R&D about to move out of Finland?
According to the Helsingin Sanomat International Edition (HS) the “former Chief Technical Officer and Head of the Nokia Research Center Bob Iannucci […] apparently planned to move the research & development facility away from Finland.” Iannucci joined Nokia in 2004. HS notes that about 450 people work at NRC Finland today—presumably that includes both NRC Helsinki and NRC Tampere. The HS article also highlights that “under [Iannucci’s] leadership, R&D activity was expanded vigorously in California while units elsewhere were shut down. The overall staff complement in research and development was cut by half. The end-product was that Palo Alto became the second-largest Nokia research facility, with around 80 employees.”
Nevertheless, “NRC Palo Alto is currently accepting applications for full-time research scientists and engineers, as well as interns and post-docs.” There is no such call for applications for either Helsinki or Tampere.
