Ericsson has shown its commitment to R&D at the 'Innovation Days'

Las jornadas Innovations Days, that has organized Ericsson, have highlighted the transformation of networks and the challenges faced by operators, universities, manufacturers and business schools in a Connected Society.

The Secretary of State for Telecommunications and the Information Society, Victor Calvo-Sotelo, the Swedish ambassador to Spain, Cecilia Julian, accompanied by the president of Ericsson Spain, Ingemar Naeve, the CEO of Ericsson Spain, Jose Antonio Lopez, and the director of the Ericsson R&D Center in Madrid, Inmaculada Rodríguez, This Tuesday, a conference on innovation organized by the Swedish company was inaugurated. The Innovation Days have taken place on days 11 y 12 November at the Ericsson R&D Center in Madrid.

The ambassador acknowledged that “we Swedes like to test services and invent. That's why, Sweden is a perfect country tester. Besides, Sweden is a country with a strong commitment to research and development. We maintain a very good collaboration between the public and private sectors. A collaboration, natural, flexible and pragmatic. And Sweden occupies the number 1 in the ranking of investment in R&D by GDP. “Innovation is essential for competitiveness and job creation”, Julian stressed..

For your part, Calvo-Sotelo highlighted that “the European Commission is implementing a large-scale program to promote ICT. The structural funds 2014-20 “They incorporate R&D and ICT as investment priorities, opening a window of opportunities to promote the development of ICT throughout Europe”.

As for Spain, The Secretary of State recognized that “Spain launched in 2013 the digital agenda. At a time of significant budget constraints, “We are committed to public-private collaboration”.

On the other hand, highlighted that “the General Telecommunications Law, approved with broad political agreement, reinforces market unity, reduces administrative obstacles for network deployment and improves user rights. In 2014 There has already been a big boost to LTE, accessible to more than 50% of the population. “The new law has contributed to making network deployments simpler and more efficient”.

The objective of these sessions has been to debate with operators, universities, manufacturers and business schools on the transformation of networks and the challenges they face in a Connected Society that by the year 2020, and according to Ericsson estimates, will have 50.000 millions of connected devices.

Through discussions and demonstrations led by experts, The audience learned first-hand how telecommunications networks are being transformed and how manufacturers and operators must manage the changes and take advantage of the challenges to make the Connected Society possible..

These conferences have revolved around how to take advantage of the challenges of technology and the business opportunities offered by areas such as cloud, SDN and technologies such as Voice over LTE, call over WiFi and RadioDot.

During the two days that the Innovation Days were held, operators have shared their points of view on the transformation of networks. In addition, Ericsson executives, entrepreneurs, startup accelerators and representatives of the academic world such as universities and business schools have debated new business models with cloud and SDN and the “innovation ecosystems”.

R&D Center in Madrid

The commitment to innovation is in Ericsson's DNA. all over the world, Ericsson accumulates a total of nails 35.000 patents, employs 25.00 people dedicated to researching and developing new products and services and invests 3.500 million euros a year, he 15% of its annual R&D turnover. He 60% of research and development is carried out in Europe with 15.400 engineers dedicated to this activity.

Since its inauguration in 1986, the Ericsson R&D Center in Madrid, directed by Inmaculada Rodríguez, It is the most important in Spain in the Information and Communications Technologies sector. (TIC), taking into account their quality and productivity levels, as well as the high qualification and talent of its employees.

The Center employs more than 650 highly qualified people, the vast majority engineers of more than 30 nationalities. The Center of Madrid has been and is a breeding ground for the most qualified professionals, driving center for entrepreneurs and job creation, works closely with universities, operators and the most innovative companies, both Spanish and foreign.

The solutions designed in this center provide mobile telephone service to almost half of the world's mobile subscribers, that is to say, more than 2.400 millions of users 340 telecommunications operators in 210 Countries on five continents use Ericsson's centrally managed HLR location system.

It is one of the national leaders in patent registration, with more than 1.100 accumulated, surpassing the 35 new annual registrations.