Nokia 2015 Annual Report Download - page 35

Business overview
33NOKIA IN 2015
Research and development
The Chief Innovation and Operating Oce
(“CIOO”) is responsible for innovation
steering in Nokia. Within the CIOO, the
Chief Technology Oce (“CTO”) and Bell
Labs organization are responsible for our
research agenda and research portfolio.
The CIOO develops disruptive technologies,
incubates these technologies into novel
prototype systems and solutions and then
launches these via the business groups to
generate growth and dierentiation across
our entire portfolio. The CIOO organization
also steers innovation externally with
customers, partners and governments, and
has new solutions trialed in collaboration with
customers and our business groups.
The four networks-oriented business groups
are responsible for the product R&D within
the Networks business.
The Networks business has a global network
of Technology Centers, each with individual
technology and competence specialties.
These Technology Centers are located
in China, Finland, France, Germany, India,
thePhilippines and the United States,
amongothers.
We believe that the geographical diversity of
our R&D network is an important competitive
advantage for us. In addition, the ecosystem
around each R&D site helps us to connect
with experts on a global scale, and our R&D
network is complemented by cooperation
withuniversities and other research facilities.
As a result of its investments in R&D, our
Networks business is one of the largest R&D
investors in the telecommunications industry.
We expect these capabilities to enable it to
continue to drive innovation in the dynamic
telecommunications sector, where product
development constantly needs to improve
in speed and eciency in order to help
operators cope with increasing subscriber
demands and exponential data trac growth.
Nokia Networks has a joint venture, TD
Tech Communication Technologies Ltd.,
for development and manufacturing of
TD-SCDMA and LTE technologies and related
products in Beijing, Shanghai and Chengdu,
China. The joint venture has supported
thegrowth of our market position in China,
and demonstrates that this partnering
has been of great mutual benet for both
enterprises. Mutual customization of the
most commoditized part of the portfolio
allows Nokia to focus on lowering costs while
producing a higher value oering.
Bell Labs, our research arm, focuses its
research on key scientic, technological,
engineering or mathematical areas, which
require fundamental improvement in one or
more dimensions, and combines these areas
of research into so-called “Future X” solutions.
These innovations are brought to the market
through Nokia’s business groups or through
technology and patent licensing. Bell Labs
also engages directly with the market and
customers through Bell Labs consulting.
Bell Labs’ successes over the last 90 years
have been recognized with eight Nobel Prizes
and many other honors, including National
Medals of Science and Engineering, the
TuringPrize, and the Japan Prize.
Enabling NFV with CloudBand
CloudBand is the rst carrier grade
NFV platform purpose-built for
service providers.
CloudBand
commercial
projects
25+
CloudBand
Ecosystem
members
65+