Huawei 2007 Annual Report Download - page 11

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CONTINUOUS INNOVATION BASED ON CUSTOMER NEEDS
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Huawei ranks as the fourth
largest patent applicant under
the Patent Cooperation Treaty
(PCT) of the World Intellectual
Property Organization (WIPO).
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A member of 83 standardization
organizations (including ITU,
3GPP and 3GPP2).
35,000
35,000 employees (43% of
all employees worldwide) are
engaged in R&D.
We believe that any advanced technology or product has to
be translated into customers’ commercial success before it can
generate any value. Giving top priority to customers’ specic
needs, Huawei listens attentively and continuously innovates
focusing on individual challenges and opportunities.
Product R&D Driven by Customer Needs
uawei launched the Integrated Product Development (IPD) program.
Product R
& D has remained responsive to projected and actual
customer needs. Through widely applied modularization, standardization
and technology sharing, we now present the integrated advantages of
“Speed, Quality and Cost”, to maximize customer benets and value.
R&D Investment
Huawei reinvests no less than 10% of its sales revenue in R & D and 10% of the
R
& D budget in cutting-edge technologies and fundamental technologies.
Our R
& D is undertaken worldwide with strategically located R & D
institutes in the United States, Europe, India, and throughout China,
leveraging the highest quality global human and technological resources.
Patents and Standards
By December 2007, Huawei had led 26,880 patent applications in
aggregate. The number of UMTS 3G essential patent applications led saw
Huawei ranked among world’s top ve.
Huawei is a member of 83 standardization organizations (including
ITU, 3GPP and 3GPP2), taking over 100 positions. In 2007, a total of
3,072 proposals were submitted, including over 800 proposals in ber
transmission, access network, NGN, IP QoS and security, and more than
1,500 proposals in mobile core network, service application and radio
access.
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