A Study On HUAWEI's R&D Strategy In The Context Of Internationalization

As the economic globalization gets more and more enhanced and the conditions for setting up companies and doing business in China get maturer and less restricted, more and more Chinese high-tech companies have been founded and prepared to sell their products or service to the overseas market to start internationalization. High-tech industry is knowledge-intensive, which gives rise to the “Knowledge Economy” in the whole world. IPRs turn into the qualifications for companies to be involved into the global business competition and the weapons to conquer their competitors. As a result,it's greatly significant that enterprises can develop techniques or products which are globally competitive by organizing their R&D activities in an orderly manner.The thesis chooses HUAWEI's R&D strategy in the context of internationalization as the study subject. Firstly, the background of internationalization Huawei faces is introduced and then the R&D strategies Huawei chooses are presented. Afterwards, the thesis tries to figure out why HUAWEI organizes its R&D activities in this certain way.After introducing and analyzing HUAWEI's R&D strategy, the Criteria for Performance Excellence is cited to evaluate how well HUAWEI's R&D strategy works. The Criteria for Performance Excellence was firstly used by the Baldrige National Quality Award.China adopted the criteria in the early 21 st century. The criteria has been widely adopted by companies to evaluate their work's output in many aspects so far. In order to make the evaluation result more convincing, the thesis takes Zhongxing(ZTE) in to form a comparison between the two companies. HUAWEI is evaluated to be excellent in R&D arranging. The result comes in line with the comments to HUAWEI made by companies in the telecom industry. HUAWEI's experience in arranging R&D activities would provide some wisdom for the Chinese new comers in the high-tech industry.