AMMAN — Huawei is working with
universities in Jordan for launching innovative platforms for research and
talent cultivation, the company’s chief said, according to the Jordan News
Agency, Petra.
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Huawei board director and chair of the Scientist
Advisory Committee William Xu said in an online forum Tuesday that the industry
and academia are working jointly to define top challenges and achieve
innovation.
The online forum is entitled “Industry-Academia
Collaboration for Joint Innovation and Talent Cultivation” at Times Higher
Education’s Asia Universities Summit.
According to a statement by Huawei’s office in
Amman, Xu outlined that the first step was to build an open and innovative
platform for joint research and talent cultivation, noting that Huawei invested
US$400 million into university collaboration in 2021 and intends to invest more
for deeper collaboration in the future.
Xu proposed five actions for industry-academia
collaboration, which includes continue supporting breakthroughs in basic
research and technology, set and solve problems and make breakthroughs to
overcome key industry challenges, and optimize the design of programs and
courses.
Other course of action includes encouraging innovation by
building platforms like joint labs, tech competitions, Seeds for the Future,
and post-doctoral research programs, in order to identify and cultivate talent,
and strengthen talent exchanges between universities and the industry to
promote transition from theory to practice.
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