The Corporation and the Panchayat. Negotiations of knowledge in an Indian Technology Park

South East of Bangalore, Karnataka, India. This is the location of the technological and industrial district known as Indian Silicon Valley, identifying the area around Electronics City. A new suburb of Bangalore, E-City has been dramatically developing in the last twenty years, experiencing an expansion so fast and intense to call for a redefinition of the legal and administrative competences required by its management. E-City has been chosen by the majority of international corporations as a location of their Indian branches. E-City is also the location of the Research & Development Department of the US based corporation where I developed my fieldwork. The paper describes the reasons, both scientific and economic ones, that led the corporation to delocalize its R&D in India, and the long-term effects that such decision is bearing on the entire territorial, human and urban development. E-City administration, shared among the traditional institution of Panchayat and the association of industry managers, has entered into a conflicting phase with the City Council of Bangalore, about crucial matters like primary resources management and distribution. The paper stresses how the processes of knowledge production, management and transfer cannot be understood within predefined disciplinary bounds, being strongly affected by local socio-economic constraints that make them useful, effective or im/possible.