Wireless%20Telecomms

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Wireless Telecomms in China
Korea Research, Universities Industry Prof
Joe McGeehan Managing Director
Telecommunications Research Laboratories
Toshiba Research Europe Ltd
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Perspectives on RD
Volume measure
Measure of fundamental research activity
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Company Approaches to RD

• Category A Alert
• Category AA Alert Aware
• Category AAA Alert, Aware Active

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Industry-Academic Collaboration

• Korea
• Clear evidence that enlightened companies (AAA)
  are looking to develop their product range
  through co-operation with leading research
  universities
• Insufficient time to discuss funding models
• China
• Again, clear evidence of strong collaboration

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Collaboration Examples

• Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
• Fingu and Wuhan University
• Jushri, Shanghai

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Comparisons with the UK (1)

• In both China and Korea, industrial organisations
  largely undertake applied research and advanced
  development (rD)
• Research institutes, such as ETRI (Korea) and
  SHWCRC (China) conduct more long-term research
  and advanced development (RD)

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Comparisons with the UK (2)

• Leading research-based universities in both
  countries conduct blue-skies research (R)
• UK is seen as being exceedingly successful in the
  management of RD laboratories

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Research Activities

• Majority of (industry) research shown was focused
  upon clearly-defined medium-term markets, notably
  WiMAX and 3G LTE
• This is reflected in standards contributions,
  product development and IPR generation

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Research Activities

• Areas of Research - Three Common Themes
• Service-related
• Network-related
• Wireless-related
• Research topics projects seen by the mission
  team were not significantly different from
  research ongoing in the UK
• Research quality appeared comparable

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4G - What is it ?

• Broadly speaking, Europe and the US are adopting
  an evolutionary approach, whereas...
• Asian perspective
• Wide area, 100Mbps air interface
• Shorter range 1Gbps nomadic air interface
• Analogous to the step transition between 2G and
  3G

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4G Technology, Testbeds
Commercialisation

• Korea China are both very active in 4G
  research, a position reflected in
• patents generated
• input to standards bodies, and
• the establishment of 4G experimental testbeds in
  both countries over the past year
• Samsung (Korea), FuTURE (China)
• Unfortunately there was not the opportunity to
  visit the 4G testbed facilities
• It is nonetheless important to report on these
  developments - some detail is included in mission
  report

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Training the next generation of Engineers - China

• Total in undergrad education 15,617,800
• 2005 enrolment
• 5,044,600 students
• Increase of 12.8 over 2004
• Higher education entry rate 21
• Avg student population per institute 7666
• Teaching staff/student ratio 117

Year 2005 statistics for Chinese Higher
Education Source China Education and Research
Network http//www.edu.cn/jiao_yu_fa_zhan_498/2006
0706/t20060706_187144.shtml
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Training the next generation of Engineers - China

• Total in postgraduate education 978,600
• Doctoral students 191,300
• Masters students 787,300
• 2005 enrolment
• 364,800 students
• Increase of 11 over 2004
• Doctoral students 54,800
• Masters students 310,000

Year 2005 statistics for Chinese Higher
Education Source China Education and Research
Network http//www.edu.cn/jiao_yu_fa_zhan_498/2006
0706/t20060706_187144.shtml
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Other Observations

• Company Staffing
• China and Korea are both seeing the increasing
  return of established technical staff with
  extensive industrial and academic experience from
  both the US and Europe
• Engineers are promoted young to middle management
  levels, particularly in China, where a large
  number of key executives are in their early-mid
  thirties
• Another striking feature in China, (unlike Korea,
  Japan and Europe), was that a large number of
  senior executives met during the mission were
  female
• Both countries have realised the importance of
  design, rather than just technology, and have
  been looking to the UK for such expertise