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The Creation of New Business / Products Team will collaborate with our four businesses to create new businesses and products in the four fields of Mobility, Environment & Energy, Electronics, and Life Science, transcending the boundaries of existing organizational units and contributing to the realization of our vision.
Yasuhito Kato
Managing Director
In charge of Technology Unit
We have established four areas to target in company-wide research and development to contribute to realizing a sustainable society. Our goal is to achieve so-called ambidexterity in identifying new knowledge while also developing existing businesses in greater depth. One concrete example of this is the IP landscape activities we engage in to analyze market information and information on the intellectual property of our competitors. We are actively involved in open innovation with start-ups and academia, and are working to secure competitive advantages.
Amid these efforts, the M-CFT 1 team, which is targeting creation of new businesses and new products, is:
We are working toward the three targets mentioned above.
The M-CFT 3 team, which is pursuing company-wide digital transformation (DX), recognizes the need for digital transformation of research to improve the efficiency and enable more sophisticated R&D. To accomplish this, the team is equipping laboratories with IT infrastructure and introducing electronic experiment notes, and is also building a system for using AI and MI.
The Research & Development Group is teaming up with each business group in pursuing company-wide R&D activities with the M-CFT 1 team playing the central role to implement ambidexterity and achieve balance in R&D activities.
Vision of R&D
Increase our corporate value by creating new businesses
and products through R&D
The role of the R&D division is to create new businesses and products through R&D activities
and increase our corporate value.
We want to be an R&D division that can create and increase corporate value.
R&D activities that simultaneously
expand existing core businesses and
develop new businesses to continuously increase corporate value
R&D to put "ambidextrous management" into practice