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14
EXCELLENT GLOBAL CORPORATION PLAN—PHASE III
Canon is targeting medical imaging and
industrial robotics as new business
domains after 2010. The Company
selects new business domains based on
their prospects for significant market
growth, potential progress of innova-
tive technology, consistency with
Canon’s core capabilities and effect on
sound growth.
Canon engages in leading-edge
collaborative research in areas with poten-
tial, including next-generation business
domains. In the field of medical imaging,
the Company is working with Stanford
University in the United States, Kyoto
University in Japan and other institutes.
From the long-term perspective,
research is essential for further growth,
and we will therefore continue to devote
attention to global research involving
international investigative studies in a
number of technical fields. Canon also
dispatches researchers to major interna-
tional universities and research institutes
Research at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie
Melon University in the United States
In collaboration with Kyoto University in Japan, Canon is engaging in medical imaging technology research as a next-generation business domain
3. Identifying new business domains and accumulating
required technologies
that engage in the development of cut-
ting-edge technologies.