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Murata Selected as a Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator for 3rd Year in a Row
March 29, 2024 | Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. was selected as one of the Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 by Clarivate Analytics in March 2024. This is the third consecutive year that Murata has received this recognition.
The Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators is a list of the world’s top 100 innovative companies and organizations, selected by analyzing intellectual property based not only on quantity but also on four evaluation criteria: influence, success, investment, and rarity. This information is derived from an intellectual property database held by Clarivate, a global information services company.
From R&D to commercialization, Murata creates a wide variety of intellectual property. These achievements are utilized in Murata’s business by actively filing for and acquiring patents and other intellectual property rights. In addition, to promote our global intellectual property activities, Murata has established intellectual property bases outside Japan and put in place a system to quickly file applications and acquire rights on intellectual property created locally.
In recent years, we have placed greater emphasis on intellectual property and reinforced our activities through the acquisition of rights that are effective for advancing our business, and the management of our intellectual property portfolio. Be regularly evaluating and reviewing our intellectual property portfolio, we are also rebuilding our intellectual property strategy in response to changes in the environment. By repeating the cycle of planning, implementing, and rebuilding our intellectual property strategy in this way, we aim to engage in intellectual property activities that will lead to business development.
Murata’s inclusion among the Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators is a recognition of our ability to create innovation and our comprehensive intellectual property strategy.
We will continue to actively protect our intellectual property and leverage the intellectual property we hold while promoting innovation leading to the provision of new value. In this way, Murata will contribute to society and push forward with the aim of continuously improving our corporate value through innovative and industry-leading products and technologies.
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