New Business Development

Objective of the New Business Development

To expand our specialty business domain through the development of new business fields and contribute to the achievement of the goals of the next management plan.

Initiatives Related to Intellectual Property

Denka has continued to apply for patents for its new technologies to increase our intellectual property assets, and in recent years, the number of patent applications has been on the rise. We have also introduced scoring tools to analyze the intellectual property environment, and have worked to secure a competitive advantage through intellectual property rights when commercializing our products.
These efforts are being widely promoted from existing business areas to new business areas, and are supporting the expansion of specialty areas.
In order to further create new businesses, we will once again use analysis of the IP landscape to clarify the relationship between future social issues based on SDGs and our intangible assets, including proprietary technologies and intellectual property, to serve as a compass for the creation of new businesses and to help us take a more strategic approach.
In addition, in the process of creating new businesses, we will make efforts to avoid intellectual property risks and secure our business domains by complying with the relevant laws and regulations and by making effective use of our intellectual property rights.

Research & Development Policy

The Denka Group is accelerating the creation of attractive new businesses and products that create new value by expanding our range of "technologies that we do best" and promoting the development of products unique to Denka that can contribute to a sustainable society. To this end, we will promote research and development that leverages the Group's collective strengths to integrate multiple disparate technologies and generate synergies across the entire Denka Group that transcend organizational boundaries and domains.

Technology Platform

Denka concentrates its R&D resources on "what we can do better than anyone else" in the megatrends in three priority fields. Here are some of the technologies we are currently developing.