Since entering the 4G era, the lack of "core" competitiveness has always been a major problem for domestic mobile phone manufacturers. But with the accumulation of technology, this shortcoming is welcoming a major breakthrough. A few days ago, Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei, said in an interview with the media that the number of patents owned by Huawei in the global 4G field has reached 25%.
In recent years, China science and technology enterprises represented by Huawei have gradually gained a firm foothold in the international market by relying on their own efforts and technological innovation. In particular, Huawei's innovative model of focusing on innovation and winning by patent quality has continuously achieved good results in the field of science and technology. In this regard, industry insiders said that although the number of authorized patents obtained by Huawei at home and abroad is increasing every year, especially in the 4G field, we must also see that there is still a certain gap between Huawei and international giants. Experts in the industry suggest that if domestic enterprises want to make major breakthroughs in areas of concern, they not only need a lot of capital investment, but also need enterprises to develop more core technologies and continuously improve product quality.
Pay attention to innovation and win by quality.
Recently, Huawei's 20 14 annual company performance forecast data shows that the company's global sales revenue in 20 14 is 287 billion yuan to 289 billion yuan, an increase of about 20% year-on-year; It is estimated that the profit of Huawei's main business in 20 14 is 33.9 billion yuan to 34.3 billion yuan, and the profit rate of main business is about 12%, which is basically the same as that in 20 13. In the interview, the reporter noticed that 20 14 was the biggest increase in Huawei's sales revenue since 20 1 1.
Compared with the rapid growth of smartphone sales, Huawei's core telecom equipment manufacturing department, the carrier business group, grew moderately, but it also contributed to the growth of 15%. Insiders pointed out that this expansion benefited from the global investment in 3G and 4G networks, especially in China, where the expenditure on 4G networks in the last fiscal year accounted for about half of the total global investment. The substantial growth of operators' network business income is inseparable from the extensive layout and development of Huawei 20 14 in the 4G market. According to relevant sources of Huawei, at present, among more than 300 LTE networks in the world, Huawei has built more than 154 4G networks, ranking first in the world in terms of the number of networks built, accounting for 46% of the global market share.
In fact, in order to keep ahead of the industry, "in the past 10 years, Huawei invested more than188 billion yuan in research and development." Meng Wanzhou said that relying on huge investment, Huawei not only occupied the first position in the number of invention patents granted by enterprises in China, but also entered the top 50 enterprises in the United States and 20 14 enterprises in Europe. In recent years, Huawei has submitted 546 patent applications for 4G standards, accounting for 25% of the industry. "To a certain extent, this reflects the continuous strengthening of Huawei's innovation capability and the increasing awareness of intellectual property rights." Song Linqing, head of Beijing Power Patent Agency, said in an interview with China Intellectual Property News that Huawei's patent accumulation in the 4G field has a very strong competitive advantage at home and abroad.
Grasp the core and highlight the tight encirclement
For a long time, Huawei has not only invested a lot of money in technology research and development, but also continued to innovate in key and latest fields. The reporter learned in the interview that at present, in addition to increasing R&D efforts in the field of 4G technology, Huawei may also invest at least 600 million US dollars in R&D of 5G technology before 20 18.
According to Huawei insiders, in the 2G and 3G era, Huawei may have paid patent fees to others, but this is not the case in the LTE era. Because in recent years, Huawei has begun to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in patent licensing. According to industry insiders, in 20 14, Huawei won about13 contracts with the three major domestic telecom operators with sufficient 4G patent reserves, and built about 600,000 4G/LTE base stations in 20 14.
"From the market reaction, Huawei is benefiting from the 4G network upgrade project of domestic operators." An expert who has been studying intellectual property for a long time said that focusing on innovation and winning by quality has been Huawei's business philosophy for many years, which has enabled Huawei to accumulate many core technologies in the field of 4G, and then take the initiative in the fierce market competition.