Vilmos BeskidHead of R&D Center budapest

University and businessa win-win game

  

Established in 1996

one of most important R&D sites in Ericsson WORLD wide

Complete R&D chain represented in HUNGARY

Development ofHW and SW products

~ 100 PhD degreeS

~ 1200 employees

University Cooperation

Innovation

Ericsson R&D Hungary

Embedded in the ecosystem

Facts and figures

Top talents in ETH recruited earlier from university labs

– 85% of Ericsson Research Hungary (30/35)– 85% of DUNC S&T Hungary (20/23)– 75% of experts & senior specialists (9/12)– 70% of PhDs in ETH R&D– 40% of ETH R&D LT (5/12)

› People working on Ericsson related topics– ~20 supervisors/year– ~40 PhD students/year– ~120 MSc/BSc students/year

Win3

Engineeringeco-system

Industry driven projectsStrategic thinking

Technology leadership ERICSSON

GARAGEBudapest

Open Innovation with Ericsson Garage ERICSSON

GARAGEBudapest

Development6-9 Month Incubation

Operators

Enterprises

Universities

Startups

Research

Development

IncubationB

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Iterative Development withCross-Functional Teams• Research & Development• Business Partners• Universities

Collaboration withBusiness Partners

ProductB

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Collaboration withBusiness Partners

ProductDev.

Value Proposition

We maintain a continuous conversation with our business partners, universities and the startup ecosystem to focus our innovation capabilities to areas that matters the most. We execute proof of concept projects together with our customers to make sure the outcome meets market demands.

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Workshops,Business Events

Technology incubationExpert workshops

Innovation challengesEcosystem building

Academic Co-operation

ELTEEötvös Loránd University

Programming languages, compilers, domain specific languages, static analysis

Software engineering, open source

Prototyping

I&S: healthcare industry

Platforms for cyber physical systems

Big data technologies

Traffic analysis

BMEBudapest University of

Technology and EconomicsNetwork Performance

5G dataplane virtualization

5G infrastructure (Unify, 5Gx)

Cloud performance

IoT

Access networks (Combo)

SZTAKI Research Institute of Hungarian

Academy of Sciences Big data, analytics

machine learning

University of SzegedCloud

OpenSource

Ericsson Hungary

EÖTVÖS LÓRÁND UNIVERSITY (ELTE)founded in 1635, the largest and the principal university in Hungaryin science, law and humanities, with a strong computer science faculty

Faculty of Science, Institute of PhysicsCommunication NW LabFaculty of InformaticsSoftware Technology Lab

BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS (BME)founded in 1782, the most significant university of technology in Hungaryand one of the oldest institutes of technology in the world.

Faculty of Electrical Engineering and InformaticsHigh Speed Networks LabComplex HW Lab

Strategic university partnersBest Hungarian universities in education and researchin technology and informatics

Project academic partnersin new technology areas: cloud & analyticsin technology innovation and management

EIT DIGITALEuropean Institute for Innovation and TechnologyMaster ProgramsBudapest Doctoral Training Center (DTC)

INSTITUTE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE AND CONTROL (SZTAKI)Institute of Hungarian Academy of SciencesCo-operation with analytics group

UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED (SZTE)Faculty of Science and InformaticsJoint research in cloud area

CORVINUS UNIVERSITY OF ECENOMICSDepartment of Strategic ManagementDepartment of Strategy and Project Management.Co-operation in innovation and management 

Mode of operation

Engineeringeco-systemR&D group active in a field

Definition of projectsConsulting during projectsReceiver of results

Open source, StandardsPublicationsEU projectsDemoes on public events

Propose projectsVertical teams Integrated in education & researchSelection of topics is key

PROJECTS

Internship Industry talks

Useful technical results: prototypes, algorithms, simulations, open source SW

Build on world-class competence

Recruitment of top talent

Becoming part of Hungarian innovation eco-system

Industry harmonization in pre-standardization stage (EU projects)

Branding

benefits of university cooperation for Ericsson

Benefits for universityImpact on industry

development

•Focus on mainstream industry challenges•Possibility to impact industry development via open source development, standardization, prototypes•Exploitation and marketable product

International exposure

•Open source•Ericsson’s international network•Publications

A new learning environment

•Vertical teamwork: Involvement of BSc, MSc, PhD students and university supervisors•Soft skills: communication, language proficiency, project management•Possibility to contribute to world class development

Motivating for students

•Graduates meet labor market demands•Motivation to continue learning on MSc and PhD level•Real tasks•State-of-the-art research topics•Increase “market value”

Best practices

Industry defined R&D projects

Selection of topics based on industry need, university competence and university interest

Vertical projects with participation of BSc, MSc, PhD students and professors

Primary outcome is working prototype software but there is room for publication

Industrial follow-up of projects to make technology transfer happen

Open source contributions

Key to success

Win-win approach

Strategic importance

Investment

Long-term commitment

› Multi-domain / multi technology, logically centralized virtualized resource manager

› Recurrent virtualization & resourceprogramming API

› Service-Provider DevOps› Universal Node: can generic purpose x86 HW “come out” of

DCs and be used not only for cloud but also for networking?

EU Projects: FP7 UNIFYUNIFYing Cloud and Carrier Networks

Joint software and network virtualization and control http://www.fp7-unify.eu/

Network Function Forwarding Graph

as a Service (NFaaS)Resource

Orchestration &Traffic Steering ~~(VIM+NFVO)

Infrastructure Options(Network, Universal Node,

Cloud & Telco-DC)

Rapid & Flexible Services(Processing Anywhere)App

Service

Orch.

Infra

Joint programmaticAPI for software and networking(A New Narrow-Waist?!)

Project data:› Nov 2013 – April 2016› 825PMs, 9.5M€ budget,

6.5M€ EC funding› Coordinator: Ericsson ETH

Consortium:

Major Vendors:

SMEs:

Universities:

Project Management:

Research Institutes:

Major Service Providers:

Coordinator

EU projects: 5G ExchangeProject data:› Start: October 1, 2015› 1039PMs, 10M€ budget,

8M€ EC funding› Coordinator: Ericsson ETHConcept:› Enable cross-domain orchestration of

integrated cloud & network services – multiple administrations or – multi-domain single administrations

Part of EU Horizon 2020 (H2020) 5G Infrastructure Public-Private Partnership (5G-PPP) http://5g-ppp.eu

B M E 1782

Can we have fruitful industry university co-operation?

How Can we keep top engineers in the region?

Do we need BSC, MSC or PhD in industry?