Sony Ericsson Seeks Partners to Develop New Products Faster
-- Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Ltd. is seeking partners to develop new technologies and accelerate its production chain.
“As we grew up, much of our technology was able to be developed internally,” Chris Hare, manager of industry collaboration at the company, said in an interview in Berlin. “Times have changed. It is no longer OK to rely on ourselves and our parents to feed our innovation.”
Sony Ericsson, a joint venture between Japan’s Sony Corp. and Sweden’s Ericsson AB, has created an organization called Industry Collaboration and Asset Management to seek out innovations in hardware, software, applications and content. Forging ties with universities and venture capital groups, the unit will channel the findings into its own operations and those of its parent companies.
Mobile-phone makers are seeking partnerships as handsets become more like pocket computers. Nokia Oyj announced work with Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. this year. The Finnish company also bought small social networking companies and runs a network of research centers close to universities.
“We are basically hanging out our sign on the shop front: ‘We’re here. Bring us some innovation,’” Hare said.
As handsets become more than pure communications devices, “we are looking for anything that is outside the current use of the mobile device.”
Tighter Cooperation
Sony Ericsson is also looking at innovations in the health- care sector, Hare said, without being more specific.
Sony Ericsson participates in the Symbian consortium, which makes the world’s most widely used mobile-phone operating system, and plans models that will use with Google Inc.’s Android. It also has phones running Windows Mobile.
“There can be much more done in terms of the integration and collaboration with Sony and even tighter cooperation with Ericsson in terms of the network technology,” Hare said. “All three companies recognize it is time to make some changes.”
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“As we grew up, much of our technology was able to be developed internally,” Chris Hare, manager of industry collaboration at the company, said in an interview in Berlin. “Times have changed. It is no longer OK to rely on ourselves and our parents to feed our innovation.”
Sony Ericsson, a joint venture between Japan’s Sony Corp. and Sweden’s Ericsson AB, has created an organization called Industry Collaboration and Asset Management to seek out innovations in hardware, software, applications and content. Forging ties with universities and venture capital groups, the unit will channel the findings into its own operations and those of its parent companies.
Mobile-phone makers are seeking partnerships as handsets become more like pocket computers. Nokia Oyj announced work with Intel Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Facebook Inc. this year. The Finnish company also bought small social networking companies and runs a network of research centers close to universities.
“We are basically hanging out our sign on the shop front: ‘We’re here. Bring us some innovation,’” Hare said.
As handsets become more than pure communications devices, “we are looking for anything that is outside the current use of the mobile device.”
Tighter Cooperation
Sony Ericsson is also looking at innovations in the health- care sector, Hare said, without being more specific.
Sony Ericsson participates in the Symbian consortium, which makes the world’s most widely used mobile-phone operating system, and plans models that will use with Google Inc.’s Android. It also has phones running Windows Mobile.
“There can be much more done in terms of the integration and collaboration with Sony and even tighter cooperation with Ericsson in terms of the network technology,” Hare said. “All three companies recognize it is time to make some changes.”
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