OMRON Receives Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 - Ranking among the top 100 organizations leading the world in technology research and innovation for the eighth straight year -

• March 6, 2024

OMRON Corporation announced today that it has been selected as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 by Clarivate, ranking among the top 100 organizations leading the world in technology research and innovation. This is the ninth award in eight consecutive years.

Clarivate selects the Top 100 Global Innovators based on their proprietary patent data. This global information service firm analyzes intellectual property trends using an independent index in order to identify the world’s most innovative corporations and research institutions, thereafter recognizing them for their outstanding traits. The evaluation of this award is based on a twin track approach. The first track focuses on identifying innovating organizations that pass qualification criteria based on the volume of inventive activity: 500 published inventions since 2000 and 100 granted inventions during the past five years. They then compare innovators based on the proportion and level of international inventions (ideas patented in more than one country or region), creating an international innovator weighting factor. The second track scores inventions on four factors: Influence, Success, Investment, and Technical distinctiveness. Based on this evaluation methodology, the Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 list recognizes the 100 most exceptional innovators. Among these criteria, OMRON was rated particularly high for Influence and Investment.

OMRON has mapped out an intellectual property strategy linked to business and R&D strategies to utilize their intellectual property in business based on the OMRON Principles, thus promoting intellectual property activities in the global arena through the integration of business, technology, and intellectual property.

For details, see the Integrated Report 2023; here

About the Top 100 Global Innovators 2024
Clarivate uses patent data to analyze intellectual property trends and select the top 100 innovative corporations and institutions around the world annually. The accolades for the Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 by Clarivate mark the thirteenth year of the awards. Based on rigorous and objective data extracted from the Derwent World Patents Index™ (the world’s most comprehensive database of enhanced patent information), Derwent Patents Citation Index™ (contains citations of patents and literature during the determination of patentability), and independent assessment standards, the award is given to companies recognized as demonstrating the capabilities, consistency and creativity that are delivering new value and ingenuity for the world, as well as having exemplified above-the-bar excellence in innovation.

For details, see the Clarivate press release;here

About OMRON’s Intellectual Property (IP) Initiatives
OMRON implements its IP strategies in line with its IP policy to create innovation driven by social needs with near-future design.
https://www.omron.com/global/en/technology/property/

About the Technology and Intellectual Property H.Q.
The Technology and Intellectual Property H.Q., OMRON Group’s corporate R&D division, is working to anticipate social issues that may arise in the near future and create innovation driven by social needs to solve them, while evolving our core technology of "Sensing & Control + Think." With the aim of expanding human potential and realizing a future in which people can play a more active role, we are conducting a variety of research and development activities in areas such as AI, robotics, energy management, and sensing based on our founder Kazuma Tateishi’s management philosophy: "To the machine, the work of the machine, to man the thrill of further creation.
https://www.omron.com/global/en/technology/

Going forward, in order to continue contributing to a better society, OMRON remains committed to creating innovation in close collaboration with its business and R&D teams.