Nokia Research Center and Corporate Research

There are many research centers that are part of corporate companies. For example, HP Labs is part of Hewlett Packard, IBM Research is part of IBM, Microsoft Research is part of Microsoft, NEC Labs is part of NEC, and Nokia Research Center is part of Nokia. Research is at the pinnacle of a company's innovation and drive to succeed and differentiate from its competitors. Corporate research also allows researchers to get to see the deployment and use of their research in everyday lives, which is usually very difficult to do in an academic environment such as a university.

One thing that I love about corporate research is how it blends both academia and industry, you kind of get the best of both worlds, in my opinion. However with the economy and downsizing of companies, how does corporate research continue to thrive and transform itself into a driving force for a company? Enter Nokia Research Center, where I'm a Member of Research Staff there (if you do not know by now) at the Beijing lab in China. In the video below by Henri Tirri by Nokia Conversations, head of Nokia Research Center, he explains about how Nokia Research Center is different than the other corporate research labs and how the future of Nokia depends on NRC.

I agree with Henri's views on research, and I'm glad to be working at Nokia Research Center to help bring research into reality and on Nokia mobile phones. The full interview with Henri is here from Nokia Conversations.

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