Made-in-China Playbook Helps India Manufacturing Boomtown Grow (2)

From his office in Bengaluru, the tech capital of India, Benjamin Lin can see the above-ground metro stop that bears his company’s name. The Taiwanese maker of electronic components paid 650 million rupees ($7.5 million) for the naming rights, a bid to show the thousands of passengers a day that course through the Delta Electronics Bommasandra station that the company is part of the city’s future.

The investment is part of Delta’s five-year drive to establish a manufacturing hub in southern India. Besides the spanking-new research-and-development center where Lin and about 400 other Taiwanese and Indian engineers work, the company ...