Huawei will increase investment in R & D in Europe
Huawei announced its intention to increase investment in R & D activities in Europe in 2013 and in subsequent years. "Huawei plans to annually invest at least 10% of its revenues in research and development - said Renato Lombardi (Renato Lombardi), Vice-President of the European Centre research and development of Huawei. - In 2012, we invested more than 13% of its revenues in research and development, which is one of the largest deposits of private companies in this direction of the ICT industry. We continue to increase our investment in research and development in Europe.
In the period from 2010 to 2013 more than doubled their size, and in the next five years, we expect another doubling ". Huawei has organized 13 research centers in Europe - Sweden, Finland , the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium, Ireland and Italy. They employ more than 800 professionals. The scope of the research and development centers in Europe, Huawei includes research in the area of hardware and software, microprocessors, optical transport networks, and wireless communications.
"Among the priorities of the company - helping operators and corporate customers manage data growth , reducing energy network components and access to innovative and effective treatment technologies and a growing fixed-mobile traffic is running the most efficient control ", - said Jim Lou (Jim Lu), president of Huawei's Central, Eastern and Northern Europe . "In research centers around the world Huawei operates 70,000 engineers. Stockholm is the first research laboratory Huawei - it was opened in 2000, new research centers continue to open, the last time was opened in 2012 and 2013. "- Added Lou.