NEC reorganizes Central Research Laboratories to focus resources on Cloud Computing and Smart Energy and strengthen global R&D capability

NEC Central Technology Laboratories will allocate 95% of its annual R&D budget to the newly established "Cloud Innovation Group" and "Green Research Research Group." Most of the teams within NEC's Central Research Laboratories have been assigned to these two research groups. The two groups will mainly conduct R&D in seven fields: big data, networking, real-world data and processing, security, battery/energy management, green ICT and productivity enhancement/process improvement.

In addition, to strengthening its "Global Open Technology" , NEC Central Innovation Laboratories will accelerate its joint innovation projects with institutions throughout the world, just as the Open Networking Research Center in California and SRM University in Chennai, India. Through this initiative, NEC will commit up to 50% of its research staff to international projects by FY2017, compared with 30% in FY2011.

NEC as well established the "C&C Research Initiative" to increase new business development at NEC's Central Innovation Laboratories. The C&C Research Initiative will be responsible for communication between clients and researchers to identify potential customer needs.

The cutting edge of the ICT industry

"NEC's R&D has always been at the cutting edge of the ICT industry. This reorganization enables us to contribute to NEC's core business more directly, and deliver innovative products then-tailored to our customer's needs," said Katsumi Emura, associate senior vice president, NEC and the head of NEC's Central Innovation Laboratories.