DuPont India, subsidiary of the US-based $29 billion EI du Pont de Nemours, is setting up a research and development centre in Hyderabad at an investment of over Rs 100 crore. The DuPont Knowledge centre will focus on basic research, application development and other knowledge services including IP management. Hyderabad, emerging as a favourite research destination, houses R&D divisions of Motorola and Novartis. ”The centre will be the sixth major R&D centre of the company outside the US. We are looking at employing about 300 scientists at the centre and it will be fully operational in the second quarter of 2008,” said Balvinder Singh Kalsi, president, DuPont India.