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R&D Activities
A
iming to achieve sustainable growth and
increase corporate value, the Hoya Group
devotes considerable effort to formulating
business strategy from a long-term
perspective and developing technology, as
well as acquiring and cultivating new
businesses.
Hoya is involved in a wide range of
businesses. In each business division, the
Group promotes R&D based on the medium-
term plan, aiming to maintain and enhance its
technological competitiveness. The Corporate
R&D Center at the global headquarters
provides development support for the technological issues embraced by each division, as well as
conducting basic research that will supply the seeds for future growth and acquiring and
cultivating new businesses and technologies from a long-term perspective.
Hoya reorganized its Corporate R&D Center in fiscal 2011, with a view to strengthening the
optical technology and technical planning departments. The objective is to provide technical
support to each business division, all of which have optical technology as their bedrock, and
from a longer-term perspective to aid in fostering and acquiring new businesses and
technologies.
Within the Corporate R&D Center, the technical planning department is central to all joint
development activities undertaken with external research organs. By dint of actively collaborating
with such organizations the Company is shifting the core of R&D from the information technology
field to the medical and healthcare arenas.
The Corporate R&D Center and the R&D function in each business division share information as
they work to maximize the results of each R&D project.
Optical technology department:
Hoya is pursuing research into technologies for simulating the behavior of geometric and wave
optics, and studying applications in optical measuring. Based on this research the Company is
developing optical measuring instruments that will aid each of its business divisions in
manufacturing products with greater precision and enhanced quality. These include technologies
R&D Expenses