Foster partnerships with businesses and universities to innovate and nurture talent

At the Asia Universities Summit organized by Times Higher Education, Director of the Board and President of Huawei’s Institute of Strategic Studies, Mr. William Xu was invited to speak online on the topic of “Cooperation and cooperation”. industry and university to innovate and nurture talent”.

During the keynote, he shared the approaches and implementations that Huawei adopted in its cooperation with universities on innovation, joint research, talent incubation and organizing meetings. technology construction.

Mr. William Xu shared an article on the topic “Collaboration of industry and universities for innovation and talent incubation”

“Huawei is working with universities to build an innovative open platform for joint research and talent incubation. Through the dual dynamics of vision and applied research, industry and academia. need to work together to identify ‘top challenges’ and rapidly innovate. These efforts aim to solve the problems facing the industry and create breakthrough achievements. ” – Mr. William Xu said.

Chairman William Xu outlined Huawei’s approach to collaborating with universities. He emphasized, the first step must be to build an innovative open platform that attracts all parties to research and nurture talents. The academic block is the guiding beacon for the industry, so they need to dedicate themselves to basic research and solve long-term challenges through original inventions 0 to 1. Parallel Therefore, the industry should utilize its advantage in the technical field to overcome the technical and industrialization challenges that arise in a variety of situations.

In addition, universities, research institutes and businesses should clearly identify “top challenges”. This will help them reach consensus on industry visions and challenges, and discover next-generation technologies. The dual drive of vision and applied research will lead industry and academia to conduct research on fundamental theories and cutting-edge technologies across fields. Working together, we can ensure that our research and talented people stay up to date with the latest developments.

Huawei currently works extensively with more than 300 universities and 900 research institutes worldwide. In 2021, Huawei invested $400 million to promote cooperation with universities. The industry can now work with universities to design programs and courses, train joint talent, and organize technology competitions to spot and cultivate talent at multiple levels. From the industry’s point of view, President William Xu suggested five actions to promote cooperation between industrial enterprises and universities:

– Continue to support fundamental research and breakthrough technology, continuous innovation in the industry;

– Working together to pose problems and find ways to solve them, creating breakthroughs to overcome the mainstream challenges of the industry;

– Work together to optimize the design of programs and courses, and foster linkages between business and academia to incubate urgently needed talent;

– Collaborate to encourage innovation by building platforms such as joint labs, technology contests, Chaspark open access platform, Seeds for the Future program and post-progress research programs doctors help discover and nurture talents;

– Enhance talent exchange between universities and industry to accelerate the transition from theory to practice.

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