Innovation Center

The Innovation Center actively integrate in-house R&D with cutting-edge external technologies through open innovation, aiming to solve social issues, industry challenges, and customer needs.

Message from Center Director

The Innovation Center is our R&D Division that explores and creates new business opportunities beyond the scope of SMK’s existing business.

We aim to provide solutions to social issues through our activities, which include not only hardware development, but also the development of applications, algorithms, and services.
By combining internal development activities with open innovation activities, we take innovative approaches in order to unlock the future.
These approaches will accelerate the product development cycle and foster the creation of new businesses that will become the foundation of SMK's growth for the next 100 years.

At the Innovation Center, we work every day on research and development with the goal of creating new value and contributing to society.
Pursuing new possibilities and making a contribution to SMK's sustainable growth and society, we believe these will be a step toward shaping a brighter future.

Innovation Center Director Tetsuo Hara

Our mission at the Innovation Center

At the Innovation Center, we promote activities based on the following three missions

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Creating solution businesses that solve social issues
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Creating unique, high-value-added technologies and products
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Creating a new business model combining hardware + hardware (algorithms) with services