In development, confirmed experts are now lured into leaving for entrepreneurial business. The need to develop and manage such a group is where the Academy idea came from. This Academy is an unprecedented endeavor in our Company. In agreement with their line management, individuals apply to the Academy by filling in a special form. The Academy will number more than 600 members at any given time.
Membership is for three years.
A small number might also move up from AMTS to DMTS or from DMTS to Alcatel Fellow. Of course, companies within the portfolio of the Fund are able to explore synergies with Alcatel. The Fund's strategy is to maximize returns through leveraging established operations and in new startups, focusing on telecommunications, software, technology services and the Internet. Alcatel has a diversified strategy for developing and fostering new technologies. There is no doubt that the Fund is a vehicle that widens Alcatel's ability to acquire critical technologies quickly and to keep a finger on the pulse of the latest telecoms developments.