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[[Narrator] When I drive up to work in the morning I ]
[start thinking about all the things I'm going to get to do.]
[I get to work with some really smart people who can answer almost any]
[I have the great privilege of leading GE Research. ]
[We're here in Niskayuna, New York where we've been for 100 years. ]
[We're also in Bangalore, India; Shanghai, China; and Munich, Germany. ]
[We're the focal point of technology]
[We're working on major themes that will make the world a better place for everybody.]
[Themes like sustainable energy, early]
[healthcare, and like finding clean water solutions. ]
[Unlike in academia when you're working on great technology ]
[but have no path to market, here]
[we have great technology and a great pool of world-class resources]
[who are very well connected to GE businesses,]
[so they can take that technology and make it real]
[A great example of the kind of technology we bring out is composites technology. ]
[We worked hard to develop a blade that would]
[go on the front end of an aircraft engine.]
[That blade is made out of carbon fibers and resin,]
[and that gives us lightweight engines, and therefore]
[much more fuel-efficient engines. ]
[We're taking that same technology and making much larger,]
[much more effective wind turbine blades out of it,]
[and we're taking it into our oil and gas business to make components that will]
[help them get oil and gas out of the ocean floor that they can never reach]
[So our job is to create new technology typically in one business first, ]
[but then to spread it across all the GE businesses. ]
[The business of research is not the business]
[It's the business of planning strategic approaches to ]
[things, hard work, and patience. ]
[We have a very proud tradition here at GE Research]
[of being a part of the early days ]
[of electrical supply and lighting and ]
[We create new products and we've been doing it for about 100 years.]
[I have no doubt that we will be continuing to deliver great products and ]
[technology for the world for the next 100 years, and I'm proud to be a part of that. ]
