Ericsson Nikola Tesla’s view of collaboration between academic communities and enterprises Gordana Kovačević, Gordana Kovačević, MSc MSc P P resident resident of of Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia
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Ericsson Nikola Tesla’s view of collaboration between academic
communities and enterprises
Gordana Kovačević,Gordana Kovačević, MSc MSc
PPresidentresident of of Ericsson Nikola Tesla, CroatiaEricsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia
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Continuous ICT technology evolution in: IP Networks, Multimedia Subsystems, broadband access for fixed and mobile networks
Consolidation and globalization in operations
Growing competition
Operators focused on CAPEX and OPEX
Increasing role of ICT services vs. infrastructure (hardware and software)
New business models
ContemporaryContemporary society society
Global ICT market trends
Dynamics and fast change.
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ICT Industry in Croatia Croatia is a country with long long
tradition in ICT industrytradition in ICT industry ICT role in national economyICT role in national economy:
– preparing the society for the digital age
– attracting investment – interlocking networks with
services Croatian ICT sector today:
– 14151415 companies – more than 23.000 employees23.000 employees– creates around 5% of total GDP 5% of total GDP – top class experts and work force– high level of innovativeness
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Foreign investors in Croatia
A large number of global ICT companies has already located their business activity in Croatia
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Ericsson Nikola Tesla – identity card
Croatian company – main owner Ericsson (49 %) Company formed 1949th
Ericsson started with owning 1995th
About 1500 employees– 83 % high school education– 8 % master and doctoral degree– About 540 employees younger than 32 years– 500 new employees in last three years– 600 employees in R&D Centre (one of the biggest R&D
Centre in Ericsson – the biggest one outside Sweden) Structure of company income:
– 70 % export 22 % knowledge export to the world markets
Innovation is key success factor.
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Cooperation with Universities:
“strategic choice to have the right competence at right time for the
Market”
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Cooperation with University
Competence source Technology experience Practical problems challenge
UniversitiesResearch Departments Ericsson
Nikola Tesla
Research Cooperation
students professionals
knowledge results
Started 1963th – help in forming R&D Unit, continuously until today
Projects
Teaching supportPractical problems
0.5 mil € / year
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Common projects forming
First phase– Technology studies for Enterprise (technology trends)
Second phase Agreement about Long term Cooperation (Area)
– Yearly Annex (Projects topics) Project participants from University side (professors,
assistants, students – main drivers: PhD students) and Enterprise side (researchers and active/potential PhD students)
– Project leader from Enterprise side– Results owner – Enterprise (for full investment)– Follow Enterprise process
Projects with result orientation.
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Significant Joint Project (1/2)
IP multimedia subsystem IP multimedia subsystem – enablers and add-ons– Idea and the prototype of the local Croatian company has
become an important corporate product: SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) implementation in circuit switching platform, enables whole Ericsson strategic step to play key role inside Voice over IP networks as a ground for step towards IP multimedia networks
– Partners: Ericsson Nikola Tesla Ericsson Group Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of
Zagreb and Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Mechanical and Naval Architecture, University of Split
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Significant Joint Project (2/2)
Croatian GRID project– Created the first GRID infrastructure GRID infrastructure in Croatia
– Joint project with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb and local science community
KISEK project– EU Tempus Project – the KISEK ProjectEU Tempus Project – the KISEK Project (Collaborative
Internationalisation of Software Engineering in Croatia) – Joint project with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and
Computing, University of Zagreb and local and international science community
EU FP6 – MPOWER (IP – 18 partners from EU science and industry domain)
EU FP7 – QIMPRESS (STREP – 8 partners from EU science and industry domain)
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Ericsson Summer Camp
Attraction of best students and their involvement in real case projects
– Established before 8 years in Zagreb, Croatia– ~ 150 students (telecommunication, computing)– Mentors from Ericsson and professors and assistants
from Faculty– Use to be 5 weeks during Summer – July, August,
September– In 2008 we have 32 students dealing with IP state of the
art system technology Involvement of PhD students in defining and leading
topics of interest for Enterprise
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Financial support for knowledge growth
Enterprise needs continuous innovations and new products
– Own research and prototyping Money & Time & People
– Cooperation with Universities
University needs finance and problem space to have practical experience – cooperation with Enterprise
Scholarships program
Partnership program (University – Enterprise) for common growing/long sustain on the market
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Successful cooperation - partnership
Common area of interest (in longer perspective)– Common projects (mixed teams, common goal)– Collaborating in research, developmental and educational
activities Enterprise ready to use achieved results/proposals and
people Education of students in the spirit of creativity, curiosity and
desire to attain new knowledge (dynamically adapt towards ongoing industrial trends and needs)
Education system as a part of the concept of Life-long learning
Continuous finance support
Two way adaptations towards needs – dynamics is key success factor.
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Instead of conclusion
Ericsson Nikola Tesla in Croatia has a long and successful history in cooperation between enterprise and university communities on local and international level.
University and enterprise with common results orientation, based on modern technologies and innovation, can ensure strengthening of an economy as a prerequisite of its competitiveness on local and global markets.
Networking/partnering the businesses and educational institutions contributes to the development of a modern knowledge society we all strive for.