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Research & Development and Intellectual Property
Toshiba Group is concentrating its attentions on businesses that will drive future growth, and towards this has expanded
R&D to the global scale. Beyond that, we are ensuring our ability to take full advantage of R&D results by reinforcing our
global IP strategy. Through our R&D and IP, we will continue to meet the challenges of generating innovations.
Taking on the challenges of generating new innovations
Research & Development
Toshiba Group’s new management policy defines Growth
through Creativity and Innovation as the main target, to be
achieved through Value Creation and Productivity
Improvements. We have also added Healthcare to Energy
and Data Storage as a core business. In achieving this
management policy, in addition to our long-standing
promotion of Value Innovation, which encompasses the
unearthing of society’s potential needs and issues and the
creation of innovative technologies, and Process Innovation,
the constant productivity improvements that fuel profit
creation and strengthen competitiveness, we will promote
New Concept Innovation that utilizes the wide-ranging
technology assets of Toshiba Group in many and diverse fields
to generate synergies, and create new value for customers.
In Energy, we are working to ensure long-term energy
security. For that purpose, we aim to realize a sustainable
society by offering the optimal mix of baseload power
sources, including next-generation thermal and nuclear
power and renewable and alternative energy source, along
with new types of batteries and power electronics that
reduce environmental impacts. In Data Storage, in order to
R&D Strategy
Global issues and trends
Creation and utilization of technologies that create new value
Innovation from
a marketing
perspective
Innovation to
develop
technologies
Capture chances in
Toshiba’s line of sight
Next pillar of business and
source of customer value
Matching business and
technology strategies
In order to strengthen our global competitiveness we are
increasing our responsiveness to market changes, even in
our research and development activities. In particular, in
expanding markets such as China and Asia, we plan to
deploy not only manufacturing bases but also engineering
bases and development facilities, and we are also carrying
out joint research and development with local universities
and companies. In line with this, in FY2013 we commenced
joint research with the Indian Institute of Technology in
Madras, India. Going forward, we want to take the results of
research and development in emerging economies such as
China and India as starting points for the creation of
products that win acceptance in the global market, including
the developed countries.
Initiatives to strengthen global research & development
- Cambridge
Research
Laboratory
- Telecommunications
Research Laboratory
- Corporate
Manufacturing
Engineering Center
- Corporate Research
& Development Center
- Corporate Software
Engineering Center
Toshiba Software
(India) Private
Limited
Toshiba Software
Development
(Vietnam)
Co., Ltd.
Toshiba Medical Research
Institute.USA., Inc.
Toshiba(China) Co., Ltd.
Research and
Development Center
Toshiba Medical Systems R&D
(Dalian) Co., Ltd.
Vital Images, Inc.
Toshiba
America
Research, Inc.
Toshiba America
Electronic
Components, Inc.
Toshiba Medical
Visualization Systems
Europe, Limited
Toshiba
Electronics
Europe GmbH
Toshiba Research
Europe Ltd. (Cambridge)
Corporate R&D
Division
- Power and Industrial Systems
Research and Development Center
- Center for Semiconductor Research
and Development
- Lifestyle Solutions
Development Center
Development Centers
of in-house Companies
Major R&D bases in Japan and overseas
deal with the continuing shift to big data and ensure
information security, we will construct data centers and
systems that make use of our large-capacity storage devices,
while in cloud infrastructure we will continue to provide
solutions for the retail, healthcare and other sectors. In
Healthcare, in order to respond to population growth in
emerging markets and aging in the developed world, we
aim to create a new dimension for healthcare by fusing
Toshiba Group’s broad range of technologies, and we will
promote advances in diagnostics and expansion into disease
prevention and prognosis.
Research & Development and Intellectual Property
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