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| Li Jinge, President of Huawei Asia Pacific delivers a speech at the Huawei Innovation Day Asia-Pacific. — Photo Huawei |
SYDNEY (Biz Hub) — Innovation at this moment in Australia's history is driving 60 per cent of the country's national productivity, and is the fundamental factor behind national productivity, which is the driver of jobs, growth, and opportunities, said Greg Hunt, Australia's Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science.
Hunt told those attending the Huawei Innovation Day Asia-Pacific held in Sydney last week that exploration and innovation were vital for the progress of society.
"ICT is the backbone, along with science, of the whole innovation space. For us as a government, we are involved in innovation and driving this forward as a means of helping the economy, helping individuals, and improving quality of life. Under the Innovation and Science Agenda, we bring young people into innovation and science through a programme worth more than US$100 million," he added.
Li Jinge, President of Huawei Asia Pacific, said in his speech that future explorations in ICT would require inputs from all parties, because there are many unknowns in creating an intelligent society. Li said that Huawei's growth and success were a result of its spirit of dedication and focus on customers.
Ecosystem innovation is the only way for companies to create an intelligent world. Huawei aims to nourish the 'soil and energy' of the ICT ecosystem to enable the intelligent world of the future. It will push the entire industry forward, and support ongoing social progress through strong, strategic alliances.
Huawei has launched six OpenLabs, which are part of Huawei's strategy for creating an ICT ecosystem for enterprise business, located in Munich, Mexico City, Dubai, Singapore, Moscow and China, and has worked extensively with over 400 solution partners worldwide. In addition, Huawei plans to establish an OpenLab in Bangkok, the second of such OpenLabs in the Asia Pacific region, in early 2017.
It has also developed the Huawei Innovation Research Programme (HIRP), designed to drive partnerships with leading universities worldwide.
To date, this programme has supported over 1,200 innovation research projects at over 300 universities in more than 20 countries around the world.
The event, themed Brilliance of Exploration, attracted over 150 experts and researchers from many different industries, institutions, government agencies and representatives to discuss how to face up to the unknowns of the intelligent world and create an open ecosystem.
Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Its innovative ICT solutions, products and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world's population. — VNS