Creating and Nurturing New Businesses and Open Innovation with Domestic and Overseas Partners
First written in FY2025-H1. 2 of 4 entries say "Advanced", first in FY2025. Latest entry: FY2026.
51 other companies' latest entry also says "Advanced".
- FY2026AdvancedAnnual report
「In recent years, we have promoted the rollout in Japan of services from overseas startups such as Twilio Inc., NavVis GmbH and RemoteLock, Inc. The growth of these new businesses has been a major driver of the Group’s growth in recent years. More recently, we began new collaborations with Portugal’s Allbesmart LDA and Germany’s SimScale GmbH and are pursuing initiatives to expand these businesses.」
In addition to existing collaborations with overseas startups, the Group began new collaborations with Allbesmart LDA and SimScale GmbH, making its plans to develop businesses that will drive growth over the next 10 years more concrete. - FY2026-H1RestatedAnnual report
「The purpose of the Group’s R&D activities is to promote technological development and its dissemination into society as an integrated effort, in order to address increasingly complex social issues and meet customer needs. These activities comprise both investment in foundational technologies that support medium- to long-term growth and focused investment aimed at launching and rapidly growing new businesses. We also seek to accelerate R&D and commercialization through industry-academia collaboration and cooperation with external partner companies.」
The Group reaffirmed its policy of pursuing R&D and commercialization through investment in foundational technologies, investment in new businesses, industry-academia collaboration and cooperation with external partners. - FY2025AdvancedAnnual report
「In addition, we made an additional investment of €7.5 million in NavVis GmbH, the developer of “NavVis,” which accelerates the creation of 3D digital representations of worksites. We intend to build a foundation in the Japanese market, strengthen cooperation with partner companies, and link these efforts to further technological development and global expansion.」
The Group made its plans for developing new businesses to drive growth over the next 10 years more concrete by continuing collaboration with overseas startups, establishing a new organization to promote overseas business, increasing future investment and making an additional €7.5 million investment in NavVis GmbH. - FY2025-H1First statedAnnual report
「We are actively pursuing marketing activities aimed at launching and further growing new businesses originating within the Company.」
The Group’s policy is to develop new businesses through in-house business development, R&D investment (“future investment”), industry-academia collaboration with universities and research institutions, and the introduction of services from overseas startups.