Canon aims to expand its source of innovation Groupwide, from the current location in Japan to also include Europe and the United States, by establishing a Three Regional Headquarters management system of research and development. This effort is aimed at connecting research and development centers throughout the world and combining the output to produce significant results.
In the United States, which leads the world in medical technology and represents a large health-care market, Canon has established a research institute carrying out research and development (R&D) on technologies applicable to medical science. Through collaborative studies with university hospitals and research institutes, Canon seeks to shorten the turnaround time from R&D to commercialization.
Other Canon overseas R&D centers, such as Canon Research Centre France and Canon Information Systems Research Australia, take advantage of the characteristics of their respective regions to carry out research and development in the technology fields in which they exce