HIRP OPEN 2018

Openness Collaboration Innovation

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Interbrand's Top 100 Best Global Brands

Countries

Fortune Global 500

Consumer Products & Services

Iconic global technology brand

Carrier Products & Services

Best strategic partner for carriers

Enterprise Products & Services

Enabler and preferred partner for digital transformation

A Global Leader in ICT Products and Solutions

Information Distribution & Presentation Information Transmission Information Processing & Storage

Data center infrastructure Big data analytics AI platforms

Global carriers Hundreds of millions of consumers

Global enterprises, governments, and industries

Managed services and system integration

Cloud Products & Services

Cloud partner with reliable, trusted, evolvable services

Cloud services gPaaS Cloud OS

Smartphones MBB & home appliances Wearables Vehicle devices

Wireless networks Fixed networks Carrier software Core networks

Enterprise networks IoT connection management platforms

US$ billion

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2016

Sales Revenue

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• Carrier business: Working with customers to explore new models of network development – shifting from investment-driven to value-driven, aiming for new business growth.

• Enterprise business: Accelerating digital transformation for companies around the world. Innovative products and solutions for cloud computing, enterprise campus, data center, and IoT. Widespread uptake in a range of industries: smart city, safe city, energy, finance, transport, and manufacturing.

• Consumer business: Key breakthroughs in the global high-end market, taking Huawei's brand to a new level.

• Huawei Cloud: 100+ services, 50+ complete solutions, including manufacturing, enterprise intelligence, SAP, high-performance computing, and IoT.

Robust growth across all business segments, thanks to balanced global presence and strategic focus

• Focus on strategic opportunities: Huawei does not waste strategic resources on non-strategic opportunities.

• High investment (about 10% of annual revenues) in R&D

• Top 10 in the 2017 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard

• Technology breakthroughs come through perseverance, dedication, and self-reflection

• 74,307 patents; member of 360+ standards organizations, industry alliances, and open source communities, with 300+ key positions; 54,000+ proposals submitted

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US$60 billion+ invested in R&D from 2008 to 2017

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Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP)

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New technologies New products Fundamental

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Focusing on digital infrastructure • Network technologies: 5G, SDN/NFV, IP + optical

• Cloud technologies: Computing, storage, security

• Device technologies: Sensing, perceiving, intelligence

Enabling an intelligent world • Cutting-edge technology research: Video recognition, virtual reality, blockchain

• Solutions for real-world challenges: Digital twin, Safe City, new finance

• Investment in basic technologies: Software, hardware, algorithms, basic science

Open innovation, absorbing new ideas • Processes adapted to the uncertainties of innovation: Practices, processes,

investment, etc. • Innovation centers near research and innovation hotspots worldwide • The Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP) works with leading global

researchers on new technologies and commercialization, driving the ICT industry forward.

• In 2017, the HIRP innovation brand continued to grow. HIRP OPEN published 140 research topics, and received about 800 innovative proposals. Researchers hailed from nearly 300 universities in 33 countries and regions. Awards received by HIRP:

�Business Model Transformation Award by World Open Innovation Conference �ISPIM Grand Prize by International Society for Professional Innovation Management

FLAGSHIP Partners invited by

Huawei

HIRP OPEN Open to global

proposals

EXPLORATORY Global technical

exchanges

Nearly 2,000 leading researchers at over 300 universities and institutes in 33 countries and regions

Industry Academia

Academia Industry

Resources

•Imagination •Insight

•Efficiency

Challenge:

Asymmetry

Solution:

Collaboration

We want: •Rapid progress

•Birds-eye-view solutions •Balanced partnership

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We want: •Unrestricted process • Deep research •More data

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3 Theory

Practice

Feedback

1 2 3 HIRP •Finance •Experiences •Knowledge

•Knowledge •Advanced products •New tech •Reputation •Relationships •Finance

Right projects

Right partners Commercial-ization process

Input Output

Open/Flagship/Exploratory

New demands,…

Input Technology and innovation

management process Output

Knowledge

Technology

Innovation

Competitiveness

Output thinking

� HIRP Huawei Innovation Research Program � An Open Innovation Initiative, a sponsorship program targeted at funding leading universities and research

institutes conducting innovative research in ICT areas

HIRP

� Innovation Ideas

� Knowledge

� Know-how

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Academia Industry

� Real Requirements

� Market Demonds

� Problems

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Build a Better Connected World Through Open Innovation & Cooperation

Power of knowledge Sponsorship

Consumer Business A brand loved by consumers

Huawei: • Improve and ensure competitiveness

through cooperation with academia. • Better serve our customers. • Lead the ICT industry. Academia: • Understand the real requirements from

the market. • Transfer academic results into

productive innovations • Identify new research directions. • Nourish talents and grow teams Balance the research freedom of academia and the goals of industry,

Carrier Business Customers' best strategic partner

• Research and innovation are high-risk activities, that go hand in hand with failures.

• Huawei’s commitment to continuous investment in R&D, long-term cooperation and innovation .

• Only pure perseverance leads to breakthrough.

Enterprise Business Enterprises' best innovation partner

• The collaboration with academia needs to be open: open-mindedness in a friendly and open atmosphere.

• Explore the cutting-edge topics from multiple paths and multiple directions.

• Enlarge the investment in the basic research under the tip of the iceberg.

• Spur novel ideas to great opportunities, fasten transfer from knowledge to productivity.

Complementary Advantages Innovation is marathon Open Collaboration

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Hundreds of world-class research organizations Almost 30 countries worldwide

More than 700 HIRP projects were awarded

Huawei Pipe Strategy

Information Processing &

Storage

Information

Transmission

Information Distribution & Presentation

Wireless Communication Technology

Network & Information security Technology

Cloud Networking

Engineering Technology

Data Management and Process

TOPIC Areas

Future Networks

Optical Technology

Storage Technology

Computing Technology

Big Data & Artificial Intelligence

Media Technology

� Support research that will significantly

impact technology areas that are of

mutual interest to academic and Huawei.

� Large and multi-year contract-based

awards.

� Invitation-only basis, inviting leading-

class faculty members from top

universities and research institutes around

the world .

HIRP FLAGSHIP

� Bring together internationally renowned

leading researchers for the purpose of

exploring cutting-edge topics.

� Format: Advisory Board Summit

Seminar etc.

� Invitation-only basis

HIRP Exploratory

� Support novel and early-stage research

ideas in the ICT areas that Huawei

published or even beyond.

� 1~2 year award with amount about

70,000 USD.

� Open call for proposals , usually 2

rounds per year. Yet accept online

submission anytime for novel ideas.

HIRP OPEN

HIRP Open: usually 2 rounds per year, the main round is in May ; accept online submission anytime for novel ideas HIRP Exploratory & HIRP Flagship Invitation-only basis, is announced periodically according to industry and technology developments

Submission through HIRP WEBSITE http://innovationresearch.huawei.com/ Or innovation@huawei.com

The agreement type or IPR Policy depends on the project there is •Contract –based •Collaborative research •Sponsored research •Gift funding

HIRP Open: usually in 1 months after proposal submission HIRP Exploratory & HIRP Flagship usually in 1~2 weeks after proposal submission

•Owned by Huawei •Owned by University •Jointly owned

HIRP OPEN 2018

15th April, 2018 15th April ~ 31st May June 2018 June ~ September, 2018

For further inquiry and any comments, please contact us by Email: innovation@huawei.com You could visit http://innovationresearch.huawei.com Note: Please use IE or Chrome and set security level to MEDIUM.

HIRP OPEN 2018 will include 180 research subjects involving 20 technical fields. The main fields are as follows:

Wireless Communication Technology

Future Networks

Optical Technology

Computing Technology

BigData & Artificial Intelligence

Media Technology

Storage Technology

Advanced Semiconductor Technology

Compiler & Programming Language

BlockChain

Software Engineering

Operation System

Engineering Technology

Data Management and Process

HIRP OPEN

2018

Note: After the deadline of proposal submission, any form of proposal submission will not be accepted.

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