Kyocera Named to "Top 100" Global Innovators List for Fourth Consecutive Year, Marking Ninth Appearance
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Kyocera Corporation (President: Hideo Tanimoto, hereinafter "Kyocera") today announced that it has been recognized among the Top 100 Global InnovatorsTM 2025 by ClarivateTM, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence. This year's list brings Kyocera's ninth appearance, with 2025 marking the fourth consecutive year.
The Top 100 Global Innovators list comprises organizations that demonstrate consistent, above-the-bar innovation excellence at the very top of the global innovation ecosystem. Clarivate comprehensively evaluates innovation excellence based on four factors: influence, success, investment, and rarity, to identify the 100 innovators at the pinnacle. Honorees have been announced annually since 2012.
In 2025, a total of 33 Japanese companies were selected as part of the top 100.
The fundamental policy of the Kyocera Group is to safeguard the outcomes of research and development through intellectual property (IP) protection, utilize IP to foster business growth, and respect the IP rights of other organizations.
Kyocera's intellectual property division closely collaborates with business units to promote IP activities. Leveraging an information analysis approach that combines IP factors with other business, scientific, and technological trends, known as the IP landscape, the company integrates IP strategies into initial business planning to reinforce each segment.
As part of its ongoing IP efforts, the Kyocera Group has established the online Kyocera Group Intellectual Property Site, which briefly introduces some of Kyocera's proprietary technologies and strives to create business opportunities with external partners.
Kyocera will aim to expand its intellectual property development and properly utilize our activities to shape the future of innovation.
Methodology
For the Top 100 Global Innovators, Clarivate uses a complete comparative analysis of global invention data to assess the strength of every patented idea, using measures tied directly to the idea's innovative power. The evaluation and selection are based on a twin-track approach:
Track 1
Identify innovating organizations that meet certain qualification criteria based on volume, including:
1) More than 500 IP applications filed since 2000, and more than 100 granted inventions over the past five years (2019-2023).
2) Compare innovators based on the proportion and significance of international inventions (ideas patented in multiple countries or regions) and create an international factor.
Track 2
Evaluate all inventions and score them on four factors: "Influence," "Success," "Investment," and "Rarity." Add the international factor and determine the Top 100 Global Innovators.
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