OMRON receives Top 100 Global Innovators 2022

March 3, 2022 2:24 pm

OMRON Corporation has announced that it has been selected as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators 2022 by Clarivate. This is the seventh award in six consecutive years.

Clarivate selects the Top 100 Global Innovators based on their proprietary intellectual property and patent data. This global information service firm analyses intellectual property trends using an independent index in order to identify the world’s most innovative corporations and research institutions, thereafter recognising them for their outstanding traits. The evaluation of this award is based on a twin track approach. The first track identifies innovating organisations that pass qualification criteria based on the volume of inventive activity. The second track evaluates all invention in the score them on four factors: Influence, Success, Globalisation and Technical distinctiveness. Among these criteria, OMRON was rated particularly high for technical distinctiveness.

As part of the enhancement of the “management of technology”, OMRON established the Innovation Exploring Initiative Headquarters in March 2018 and OMRON SINIC X Corporation, OMRON’s subsidiary that draws “Near-Future Design” in April of the same year. Innovation Exploring Initiative Headquarters is a company-wide innovation platform, which is responsible for making the process of creating innovation driven by social needs for our organisational knowledge and strengthening the capacity to create new value. OMRON SINIC X Corporation is accelerating the creation of “near-future design” while acquiring cutting-edge technologies and intellectual properties by engaging in open innovation. As a result, research papers from OMRON SINIC X have been being presented at the premier international conference. In addition, Technology and Intellectual Property Headquarters created intellectual property strategy linked to business and R&D strategies to utilise their intellectual property in management and business based on the management philosophy and is promoting intellectual property activities in global.

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