NOKIA increased R & D expenses Chinese gamble next 250 million users

The afternoon of October 31st, NOKIA held a conference in Beijing on innovation, information disclosure, NOKIA global has more than twenty thousand R & D personnel accounted for the total number of employees 37%, R & D investment each year at a cost of 3 billion 733 million euros, NOKIA accounted for 12.8% of the annual sales sales increased 10%, compared with the past.

NOKIA executive vice president and chief strategy officer Tero Ojanpera said at the meeting, as in the past to NOKIA attaches great importance to technological innovation and development, than in previous years have more investment in research and development this year, fully explain the NOKIA technology innovation in the first place. According to reports, NOKIA almost every year, each employee has an innovative patent, and these patents also have strict audit standards to ensure the level of patent technology.

In addition, NOKIA in the development of China investment is intensified, from 1998 the first set up an R & D center until now, NOKIA in China has 6 research centers, including the Chengdu R & D center was established in August this year.

At the same time, NOKIA is expected in the next 5 years, that is, by 2010, the global mobile phone users will increase by 1 billion, of which 1/4 will be generated in china.

Because of this, NOKIA said he was very optimistic about the market prospects of China communication, and make research in the China investment proportion increased gradually, which, at present, Chinese has a staff of more than and 600 people, and in Hangzhou R & D center focuses on the research of advanced communication network technology of HSUPA, this Miami than the current HSDPA technology to step forward.