Plan for R&D and Organization
Plan for R&D
Inspired by the vision: making full use of co-creative R&D to contribute to the production of world-leading products and technologies, Resonac is advancing R&D activities aimed at accomplishing three missions: broadening of technology portfolios to create innovation, promotion of cross-business technology development, and changing society thorough long-term R&D projects.
1．Broadening technology portfolios to create innovation
We promote the development of new products and businesses utilizing our core competencies.
Responding to customer needs, we create new values with combining materials technology cultivated in our innovative materials business with functional design, evaluation, and simulation technologies in downstream areas such as semiconductors, electronic materials, and mobility components business.
2．Promoting technology development across business units
We accelerate technology collaboration between businesses by utilizing the cross-functions of the Corporate R&D organization.
We create innovation through promoting deep cultivation of materials and horizontal deployment of technologies. Furthermore, we strengthen fundamental technologies such as computational science and informatics, material analysis and evaluation, and promote networking and open innovation through internal human resource exchanges beyond the boundaries of business domains and technical fields, as well as exchanges with people outside the company, to enhance our technological capabilities to realize innovation.
3．Changing society through long-term R&D projects
We work to solve long-term issues to realize a sustainable society.
We autonomously connect with various stakeholders, including customers and future generations, through empathy and resonance. We solve issues creatively through empathy and change society through the power of chemistry.
The "Stage for Co-Creation," launched in Yokohama, provides a place to interact for internal and external stakeholders and is utilized for the starting point to identify issues, developing technologies at the attached research facility, and providing solutions.
R&D Organization
Institute for Advanced Integrated Technology
Our mission is to create new businesses, products, and technologies, using a wide variety of materials including organic, inorganic, and metallic substances. We cooperate with business divisions to develop technologies to enhance values of existing business and products, and to cultivate relating growing fields.
Research Institute Strategy Department
Our mission is to design and establish the strategies of Institute for Advanced Integrated Technology, including technology development, new business development human resource management, as well as co-creation with the business divisions. We also possess the function of customer needs verification to promote new business creation activities.
Research Center for Computational Science and Informatics
Our main mission is to promote the company’s overall R&D activities with computational science and informatics. We solve the problems of products through atomic and molecular level simulation / structural and fluid simulation / AI analysis technologies. We also accumulate, analyze, and utilize internal and external technical data, and enhance the infrastructure establishment and talent management for data-driven R&D.
Material Science and Analysis Center
Our main mission is to promote the company's overall R&D activities through scientifical material analysis. We advance the elucidation of mechanisms and validation of hypotheses regarding challenges in product developments through a multifaceted approach involving microstructural observation, trace composition analysis, and chemical state analysis, leading to the derivation and proposal of solutions that contribute to manufacturing.
Stage for Co-creation
Our mission is to promote long-term R&D projects that contribute to solving social issues in collaboration with a diverse range of communities inside and outside Resonac. We induce and promote the creation and commercialization of innovations that realize a sustainable society including developing plastic recycling technologies and next-generation high-speed communication materials, accelerating R&D through utilizing technical data, and fostering an organizational culture of R&D for the future.
Intellectual Property Dep.
Our mission is to oversee the intellectual property activities of the entire company and contribute to the R&D, business, and management strategies. We have four IP functions, - planning and foundations, technologies and strategies, research and analysis, contracts, and relationship, to promote research and development as well as business activities.
R&D Planning Dep.
Our mission is to ensure the smooth operation of company-wide research and development activities based on the diverse technologies and business domains of Resonac. We are responsible for managing R&D resources, formulating technology strategies, promoting open innovation, and establishing and operating various foundations and systems to support the execution of R&D activities.