Huawei will invest EUR 70 million over a five-year period to establish a R&D centre in Helsinki, Finland. The strategic investment reflects Huawei’s deep and long-term commitment to Europe and will strengthen the company’s R&D capabilities, augmenting to over 70,000 employees currently engaged in R&D worldwide. The Finnish R&D centre will be a key driver in Huawei’s research and development of new technologies for mobile devices.
Initial projects will focus on software development for smartphones, tablets and rich-media devices, optimising the user experience of existing operating systems such as Android and Windows Phone 8. From the outset, Huawei plans to recruit 30 employees for the centre, with the goal of hiring more than 100 employees over five years. The R&D centre in Helsinki will serve as one of Huawei’s core centres for device R&D, joining an already established modem and technology design centre in Sweden and a user interface research centre in the UK.
Over the past 10 years, Huawei has grown significantly in Europe, particularly due to the region’s open economy and foreign investment initiatives, and is committed to further increase its investment in the region. In September, Huawei announced a USD 2 billion investment in R&D, local procurement and centre of excellence initiatives in the UK. Huawei currently employs more than 7,000 people across Europe.
