On November 11, the 12th China International Patented Technology and Products Fair (referred to as the "Special Fair") opened in Dalian. Qian Kun, Qualcomm's global vice president and general manager of technology licensing business in China, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Invention-Sharing-Collaboration, Helping High-quality Economic Development" at the China Intellectual Property Summit Forum of the Special Fair.
Qualcomm Global Vice President and General Manager of Technology Licensing Business China Qian Kun
The theme of this year's trade fair is "Intellectual Property Leads High-quality Economic Development". Qian Kun said that when companies develop new technologies and products, they take a lot of risks. Putting intellectual property protection in place will help encourage companies to take risks and innovate. A country with a strong intellectual property protection system will have a higher level of foreign investment, more innovative output, a larger amount of R&D activities, and will also have greater potential and the ability to produce complex knowledge-intensive product.
Qian Kun positively commented on China's remarkable progress in the field of intellectual property protection in his speech. "The improvement of China's intellectual property protection system has inspired us deeply, and we are more confident to continue to increase our investment in China, and to further strengthen our research and development to invent more technologies. Through our "invention-sharing-collaboration" business Mode, when the new era of innovation led by 5G is approaching, we will carry out extensive cooperation with Chinese industrial partners to help China achieve innovation-driven high-quality development and industrial prosperity."
Qualcomm is a company that focuses on basic technology research and development. There are two ways of product and technology licensing, sharing the technology developed by itself with the entire industrial ecology. In his speech, Qian Kun combined with the huge opportunities brought by 5G, introduced Qualcomm's "invention-sharing-collaboration" business model, and its achievements in boosting industrial ecological innovation and promoting high-quality economic development.
Qian Kun said, "Inventing-Sharing-Collaboration"-this model lowers the technological threshold for innovation, enabling partners to equally receive support from cutting-edge technologies, giving more manufacturers the opportunity to enter the mobile industry and promoting healthy competition. This allows leading technologies to be popularized on a large scale and efficiently, ultimately benefiting consumers and the entire society. "Ten years ago, only one of the world's top ten mobile phone manufacturers was from China; now, of the world's top 10 mobile phone manufacturers, 7 are from China. We are very happy that these 7 companies are all partners of Qualcomm." He gave an example.
Qualcomm always takes research and development first, and the research and development of basic technology must be forward-looking. For more than 30 years, Qualcomm has succeeded in continuously investing in research and development and sharing its research and development results with the ecosystem.
"In the 5G field, Qualcomm started relevant basic research more than ten years ago." Qian Kun said that Qualcomm has always adhered to a high proportion of R&D investment, starting from 2006, 20% of its annual revenue Investment in research and development, so far, Qualcomm's cumulative research and development investment has exceeded 64 billion US dollars. The
collaboration is one of the fundamental components of Qualcomm's DNA. In China, Qualcomm maintains a close cooperative relationship with the Chinese terminal ecosystem. In his speech, Qian Kun introduced the 5G pilot program launched by Qualcomm and China's leading mobile phone manufacturers in 2018. The vision of the plan is to support the accelerated deployment of 5G and help Chinese partners succeed in the domestic and global markets. Now this program has achieved good results and is considered a case in which multinational companies have promoted global innovation through innovation around China in recent years. At the 2020 China International Trade in Services Fair held in September this year, the 5G pilot program won the "Service Demonstration Case Technology Innovation Award", which is a recognition and encouragement to Qualcomm and its Chinese partners. The innovation opportunities brought by
5G are not limited to the field of smart phones. In his speech, Qian Kun also mentioned the "5G Internet of Things Innovation Plan" initiated by Qualcomm and more than 20 partners in July this year, as well as the establishment of Qualcomm's R&D and innovation center in China, the establishment of joint R&D projects for universities, and the establishment of US$150 million. China’s venture capital funds and other initiatives. These measures show that Qualcomm is actively promoting the innovation and win-win situation of the Internet of Things industry and actively assisting the implementation of China's innovation-driven development strategy. (Text/Ling Jiwei)
