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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 intellectual property (IP) strategy. Through
our R&D and IP, we will continue to meet the challenges of generating innovations.
Research & Development
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
- Cambridge
Research
Laboratory
- Telecommunications
Research Laboratory
- Corporate Research
& Development Center
- Corporate
Manufacturing
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.
Corporate R&D
Division
- IoT Technology Center
- Power and Industrial Systems
Research and Development Center
-
Healthcare Development Center
- Center for Semiconductor Research
and Development
Development Centers
of in-house Companies
Toshiba Group helps to address global issues by focusing
on energy, storage and healthcare. Towards realizing our
vision of a safe, secure and comfortable society, we strive
to deliver creative and innovative products that offer an
excellent user experience, in which customers find greater
value than in the products themselves. We will continue
to deliver unique value to our customers with creating
innovative technologies and bringing by our assets in
technologies.
In energy, we contribute to long-term energy security
and sustainability by developing base load power
generation sources, such as next generation thermal and
nuclear power systems, plus new energy solutions, including
renewables and hydrogen, that support realization of a best
mix of power sources. We also provide products that reduce
environmental impacts, such as power electronics and a new
type of battery.
In storage, we are meeting the demands of Big Data
and data security with essential cloud infrastructure, and
R&D Strategy
also construct data centers and information systems based
on large capacity storage devices.
In healthcare, we are fusing the wide-ranging know-
how of Toshiba Group into new approaches to healthcare
that can respond to population growth in emerging markets
and graying populations in developed countries. We will
continue to make advances in diagnostics and to expand
capabilities in disease prevention and prognosis.
Initiatives to Strengthen Global Research & Development
Our operations are global and so is our R&D. We are expanding
our research and development centers in the United States,
Europe, China and India, while promoting R&D carried out in
cooperation with our facilities in Japan. We are improving our
international competitiveness by sharpening our alertness to
market changes, even at the level of R&D. More particularly, in
the expanding markets of China and Asia our focus is not
confined to our manufacturing bases; we are also advancing
local deployment of engineering and development bases.
Beyond this, we are conducting joint R&D with local universities
and companies, and provide scholarships to support the
development of human resources. In the future, the emerging
markets will be the start point for R&D, and working there we
will continue to produce products that win acceptance in the
global market, including the developed countries.
Major R&D bases in Japan and overseas
Research & Development and Intellectual Property
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