Incubating ideas in R&D capabilities abroad European Commission - 21 October 2009 José Valerdi Tormo Head of Orange Labs R&D Spain
Local markets develop break through innovations 2
inspired by innovative ecosystem over the world Most Innovative Technologies Companies (Business Week-BCG- 2009) Spain Finland China Canada Britain South Korea Japan India U.S. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 25 Most innovative cities 2009 in the World (Global Innovation Agency) United Kingdom Spain Netherlands Japan Denmark Canada Belgium Austria Switzerland Italy Australia France United States Germany 0 1 2 3 4 5 3
where large companies implemented their R&D labs Company HQ location % R&D abroad Source: Harvard Business Review Average 11% 4 Japan 2% USA 12% Germany 18% Sweden 22%
First LTE auction In Japan International Cloud Computing testing Lab Scalable Business architecture New TV collaborative experience Panasonic Viera Connected TV Audience Mobile multimedia Comecast use Twitter for customer care services Design & simplicity Digital home Softbank,, Vodafone, China Mobile, Verizon Joint Innovation Lab Hitachi 3D Mobile WOOO Ketai H001 Skytone PC 5 Orange Labs - Research & Development Executive Orange Lab Strategy June 2009 France Telecom Group restricted 5
7 Orange Labs abroad focused on their ecosystem SF Home- TV 2.0 Audience - Ad servers Personal - App Store Enterprise B2B social net. Middleware Interclouds, STB Network CDN, convergence Silicon valley Neurosciences etc PL 68 415 Researcher Others Architect "Make the future visible" MISSIONS Gather local ecosystem innovation to transfer to the Group Contribute to adapt Group innovation to local countries operations Contribute to develop Group & local product leveraging on local skills Marketing 3 MAJOR PROJECTS FOR 2009 3 MAJOR PRIORITIES FOR 35 2009 30 OR Seeds management - listening to our customers 25 Devices - talent TOK management IP TV & connected Project TV Manager 28 - transversal projects 20 15 10 5 0 x Developer Tester Beijing Boston Cairo Spain Tokyo UK Average Connected displays Broadband access & services 4G FTTH Green IT BEI 120 Terminal HW & OS Mobile Multimedia New wireless technologies Scalable TV / Video AS product & services Dedicated STB & GW IP services aggregation routers Coverage extension IMS mobile & VoIP Home devices applications 6 UK Devices applications Unified communication Country support : 25% SP 80 52 Audiovisual & content Broadband services Behavioural Science Country support : 36% 810 p - 53% D, 47% R CAI 37 Simplicity Voice & Multimedia for EC M-transaction for EC Broadband networks for EC Vertical applications for EC OBS and Countries support : 27%
focusing on most relevant local initiatives GATHER Immediate Business Potential Transfer to development FILTER ANALYSE Subjects Too Narrow Too Disruptive Combine weak Signals Focus for local initiatives Transfer to research teams Transfer to Futurology 7
using a blog to share among Orange Labs 8
9 fast prototyping in a common spirit Made to Order Services
past success stories will be the roots of future local initiatives. Londres, R&D Technocentre Fix / Mobile convergence Audio games Varsovie, R&D Technocentre IPV6 & P2P TV Pékin R&D San Francisco R&D Tokyo R&D Web 2.0 pictures Satellite TV WIkipedia Technocentre & R&D Madrid / Barcelone Mobile banking Presentation of r&d / October 09 France Telecom Group 10 research & development Cairo
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