Huawei: Industry-Academia Collabs Key to "Top Challenges" and Talent Cultivation
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SHENZHEN, China, June 1, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
William Xu suggests promoting talent development through proposing tech
challenges and supporting tech competitions
At the Times Higher Education's Asian Universities Summit yesterday, William Xu
introduced Huawei's approaches to collaboration with universities on
innovation, research, talent cultivation, and tech competitions. Xu, Huawei's
Director of the Board and Chair of the Scientist Advisory Committee, described
the successes the company had already achieved following these approaches in
his online speech titled "Industry-Academia Collaboration for Joint Innovation
and Talent Cultivation."
Xu stated, "Huawei works with universities to build open and innovative
platforms for joint research and talent cultivation. Through the dual drivers
of vision and application research, the industry and academia work together to
define 'top challenges' and conduct innovation. These efforts are aimed at
resolving the problems facing the industry and making groundbreaking
achievements." He added that Huawei had already invested US$400 million into
university collaboration in 2021 alone, and intends to invest more for deeper
collaboration in the future.
When it came to the specifics of Huawei's approach to collaborating with
universities, Xu explained that the first step was to build an open and
innovative platform for joint research and talent cultivation. Huawei sees
universities as "lighthouses" for the industry, and wants them to devote
themselves to basic research and address long-term challenges through "0 to 1"
inventions. It sees industry as a driver of engineering expertise that can help
overcome industrialization challenges that arise in real-world scenarios. Under
Huawei's approach, universities, research institutes, and businesses align
their definitions of "top challenges" to help reach a consensus on industry
vision and challenges and explore next-generation technologies. These dual
drivers of vision and application research then lead both industry and academia
to conduct research into basic theories and advanced technologies, as well as
across domains. This collaborative approach ensures that research and talent
can keep up with the latest industry developments.
Huawei currently works with over 300 universities and 900 research institutes
around the world. In 2021, it invested US$400 million in university
collaboration. The company also advocates for industry input into university
course and program design, joint talent training, and tech competitions, as it
can help industry identify and cultivate talent at numerous levels. As a
representative from the industry side, Xu proposes five ways industry and
academia could work together to deepen their collaboration:
(1) Continuing to support breakthroughs in basic research and technology, and
continuous industry innovation;
(2) Working together to set and solve problems, and making breakthroughs to
overcome key industry challenges;
(3) Working together to optimize the design of academic programs and courses,
and driving industry-academia alignment to cultivate urgently-needed talent;
(4) Working together to encourage innovation and identify and cultivate talent
by building platforms like Huawei's own joint labs, tech competitions,
Chaspark, Seeds for the Future, and post-doctoral research programs; and
(5) Strengthening talent exchanges between universities and the industry to
promote transitions from theory to practice.
Huawei currently identifies and cultivates its top talent by supporting
international tech competitions, both financially and by supplying these
competitions with technical challenges. These competitions also expand the
horizons of participating students as they have the opportunity to put theory
into practice. In addition, Huawei works closely with China's Ministry of
Education on course and program design, high-level talent training, outstanding
engineer training, reconstruction of key national labs, the release of industry
challenges, and the creation of a collaborative, intelligent
industry-university base for talent cultivation.
Source:Huawei
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