Since its founding, Canon has been distinguishing between its highly versatile "fundamental technologies," which form the foundation of its businesses, and its "core competence technologies," which directly support those businesses, providing a diverse range of products and services by combining these technologies in a variety of ways. Creating Businesses by Combining Fundamental Technologies with Core Competence Technologies Canon is engaged in this kind of R&D through alliances with other companies, industry-academia coordination, and open innovation. On the other hand, invention-focused R&D of the kind necessary for humankind's advancement is large-scale, the national level, over the long-term in areas such as space, the oceans, and the life sciences. For its part, Canon is engaging in M&A and other endeavors to create innovations with immediate effectiveness and speeding up innovation-focused R&D that speedily addresses social problems. Indeed, we live in an age when social issues are necessitating technologies, when efficient R&D requires more than just cultivating seeds through "invention-focused" R&D. Yet now, continued globalization is gradually revealing a number of social issues, but at the same time, facilitating a rise of technologies that can address them.
Groundbreaking products have been launched one after the other, enriching our lives, improving convenience and changing the world. Looking back at history, R&D in ages of industrial society and information society has involved finding the "seeds" of technology and bringing forth a proliferation of carefully-nurtured inventions. Even on a global scale, technology is in a period of change, with companies shifting away from invention-focused R&D to innovations focused on solving social issues. With the continued contraction in markets for cameras, home printers and other products that once constituted our core businesses, we are attempting to make bold changes aimed at further growth. This site requires a JavaScript enabled browser.īoth Canon and the world at large are undergoing massive transformations. Principles of Green Procurement Standards.Universal Design Initiatives in Products.Business Report & Financial Statements / Interim Report.Financial Results & Presentation Materials.Inventories, Cash on Hand, and Interest Bearing Debt.Directors, Audit & Supervisory Board Members, and Executive Officers.
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