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Research & Business Development
Corporate Venture Capital Fund
R&B Overview
Value
Vision
Focus
Challenge
R&B

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 will embrace global open innovations and challenges in new business areas,
free from existing frameworks, to address social issues that will emerge in ten years,
twenty years, or even further into the future.

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R&B Overview

To tackle social issues, we link two functions: (i) Research, where we search for seeds for
advancing technologies and promising business, and (ii) Business Development,
where we cultivate these seeds. This approach will enable us to create and grow new businesses constantly.
This is Canon Market Japan Group's approach to open innovation, which we refer to as R&B.

Creating new values with open innovation,
and solving social issues together

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

Vision

Canon Marketing Japan MIRAI Fund targets investments in areas that relate to the following themes

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Well Being Human perspectives

Life Purpose Creating services that empower anyone to experience the vitality to live in good health through spiritual enrichment

Work-in-Life Achieving work-in-life that can be enjoyed by anyone by eliminating the limitations such as space and time

Human Potential
Enlargement Creating a society in which anyone can pursue a lifestyle that suits them by expanding the various abilities that humans possess

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Business
Transformation Industrial perspectives

Emerging Industries Creating new industries using innovative technologies that solve social issues

Regional Regeneration Visualizing and rediscovering regional value, and creating region-driven businesses

Business Revitalization Disrupting existing industrial structures to create
new competitive strength through co-creation

Focus

R&B is focusing on the following business areas. In addition to these areas, we will continuously explore new areas and plan and develop businesses.

【Focus areas】
Healthcare, resilience, cultural technology, regional revitalization, education, artificial intelligence (AI)

We will explore a wide range of areas and cutting-edge technologies beyond those mentioned above, including deep tech, food, and examine new business concepts.

Team

We bring together talent with diverse career backgrounds from inside and outside the company and
work to create new and innovative value

team members

Areas of business development and members

Naoya Ishida

Group Executive

Shunsuke Abe

General Manager of BizDev Center​
Regional revitalization, Primary industries, Creative

Ryota Miyake

Investment Manager

MIRAI Fund Team

Ryusei Abe

BizDev
Resilience, Environment, Energy, Water, Logistics, Sustainability, Decarbonization, Travel

Hyejin Choi

BizDev
Entertainment, Content, Intellectual property, Gaming, Metaverse, Communities, Web3 applications

Tomokazu Hirose

BizDev
Preventive medicine, Medical support, Home healthcare support, Nursing care

Shoichiro Kaneko

Investment Expert, Legal

Challenge

The Canon MJ Group was established to sell Canon cameras and office equipment. The Group diversified and enhanced its sales channels by establishing sales companies and partnering with retailers. Subsequently, a system development company joined the Group, and the Group started its software business in earnest. This marked the beginning of our autonomous business development. To meet the diverse needs of our customers, the Group has been expanding its business operations. We began selling IT equipment and networks and have extended our services to support the entire IT system lifecycle. This includes planning, design, development, construction, maintenance, and operation. Through these efforts, the Group has enhanced its functions as a trading company. With an enterprising spirit inherent in Canon's culture, the Group has listened to the market and customer feedback, integrated unique companies, and worked to create synergies.

The Group is dedicated to exploring advancing technologies and business ideas and implementing them socially to generate new value through open innovations with startups, educational institutions, government agencies, and other stakeholders, while establishing an innovation ecosystem.

Canon MJ is accelerating the creation of new businesses by establishing corporate venture capital (CVC) funds and implementing acceleration programs and engaging in collaborations between industry, government, and academia.

Collaboration between industry, government and academia