Research &
Business
Development
Toward a future full of hope and happiness,
Take on the challenge of creating new businesses
that start with social issues to be solved.
We will strive to create new businesses with a future-oriented approach
based on Canon Marketing Japan Group‘s purpose,
“Bringing together hopes and ideas with technologies to create a future beyond imagining.”
We aim to create new businesses based on social issues
and to achieve sustainable growth by building worldwide networks of open innovation.
News
- July 10, 2024 Call for Entries for WE AT CHALLENGE 2024, One of Asia’s Largest Well Being Pitch Events Hosted by WE AT, Is Now Open.
- January 29, 2024 Canon Marketing Japan Establishes Specialized Organization for R&B to Take a Future-Oriented Approach to Address Solutions to Social Issues. CVC Fund of 10 Billion Yen Also Launched for Accelerating Open Innovation.
R&B Overview
We will work to strengthen groupwide business creation functions
by facilitating coordination between research and business development functions.
Creating new businesses
through open innovation,
connecting technology
and needs
Research
Exploration of new technologies
and business ideas
Business Development
Business development
based on
social issues
Value
We have established value standards that we emphasize in promoting R&B activities.
We will work to create new businesses based on new ideas without being bound by conventional values.
- Future-oriented Mind
- Conceiving of future-oriented businesses informed
by the worldview that we want to realize - Sustainability
- Building, maintaining and strengthening an ecosystem in which
new businesses are continually created and developed - Worldwide Open Innovation
- Accelerating and expanding business creation through
worldwide co-creation rather than being bound
by "go-it-alone" policies - Investment for Growth
- Being willing to make the necessary investments
that will give shape to business concepts - Sense of Ownership
- Boldly taking on all manner of challenges driven
by an overwhelming sense of ownership - Diversity & Inclusion
- Respecting the diversity of members and fostering a
corporate climate that ensures psychological safety
Team
We bring together talent with diverse career backgrounds from inside and outside the company and
work to create new and innovative value
Measures
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Canon Marketing Japan
MIRAI FundThe fund invests in domestic and overseas startups with innovative technologies and business models in the fields of well-being and business transformation.
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Collaboration between industry,
government and academiaWe help build a sustainable society by searching for advanced technology-driven approaches to addressing potential social issues and implementing those solutions in society, by way of open innovation with academic institutions and government entities, and the development of an innovation ecosystem.
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Canon i Program
The Canon i Program (“CiP,” hereafter) is operated as the Group‘s internal entrepreneur program designed to create new value to the world. The “i” in “CiP” incorporates the meanings of both “innovation” and “intrepreneur” (in-house entrepreneur). The program provides employees who have a strong desire to “make the world better” and "take on the challenge of new things" with chances to try their own hand at creating businesses.
