This study is an analysis of a telecom player with a strong innovative edge: SoftBank.
It presents the traditional activity of the SoftBank Group Corp, and more importantly develops a vision of the SoftBank Vision Fund strategy, its place in the group, key targeted sectors and technologies, and its overall investment philosophy.
In addition, two important sectors of the Softbank Vision Fund are analysed in detail: robotics and self-driving.
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1. Executive summary
Author
Basile CARLE, Consultant, Media/Telecom Business Unit
Basile is a consultant at IDATE since April 2008.
After carrying out a Thesis on the potential of the Wimax Technology as a means of providing broadband access on the French consumer market, he specialised in the mobile industry, which it has been analysing through the whole value chain, from semiconductor to end-users' devices and services. Mobile devices and platforms lead analyst, he also follows the evolution of mobile networks with a current focus on LTE-A features (interferences mitigation, heterogeneous networks, carrier aggregation ) and operators' strategies. He is graduated from Edhec Business School where he specialized in Marketing Management Communication, Paris, 1987), where he majored in Network Architecture.
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