Huawei doesn’t leap to mind as an innovative company. In the US, the Chinese telecom giant is best-known for the government’s national security concerns---and allegations that it stole intellectual property from companies like Cisco and Motorola. Yet Huawei was the fifth-biggest research and development spender in the world in 2017, according to a European Union report. Its €11.3 billion ($12.9 billion) R&D spend that year outpaced Intel (€10.9 billion), Apple (€9.
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