Hitachi Recognized as a "Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator" for 14 Consecutive Years with Outstanding IP Activities
Tokyo, March 31, 2025 ― Hitachi, Ltd. ("Hitachi") today announced that Hitachi has been recognized as one of the world’s top 100 innovative companies in "Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2025." This award is hosted by Clarivate Plc ("Clarivate"), which owns one of the largest patent databases in the world. Hitachi is honored to be recognized for its achievements in the intellectual property (IP) field and to win this award for 14 consecutive years, ever since the awards began in 2012.
Clarivate has selected 100 global companies as "Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators" annually based on Clarivate's patent database, its patent research and analysis platform, as well as its own evaluation criteria. Companies listed in the "Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators" are recognized for their innovativeness, efforts to protect IP, and creation of inventions that have had a great impact on a global scale.
Hitachi has set out its vision as "Global Leaders Utilizing Intellectual Property to Solve Social Issues and Realize Growth in DX/GX Businesses" and is formulating and implementing IP strategy to support the global expansion of Lumada business under the concept of "IP-driven Social Innovation". Under the leadership of the Chief Intellectual Property Officer (CIPO), Hitachi has strengthened collaboration with group companies in Japan and overseas, shared IP information across the group, and promoted the development and utilization within the group of IP infrastructure and portfolio that supports Lumada solutions for customers and related fields.
In the next Mid-term Management Plan currently being formulated, Hitachi will work to initiate new business while strengthening existing businesses, with the aim of realizing a "True One Hitachi" with digital at its core. In IP activities, Hitachi will continue its activities under CIPO, and strategically build a global IP portfolio to achieve business growth in new areas that anticipate technological and social turning points. Hitachi will enhance collaboration between business units to build an IP portfolio based on value demanded by customers, technological trends, and competitive intelligence, rather than a portfolio based on inventions, in order to anticipate and secure future market opportunities.
About Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators
Clarivate's selection of the "Top 100 Global Innovators" is based on rigorous research utilizing proprietary analysis derived from worldwide patent data, and the evaluation is based on the following two-step approach:
- Stage 1: Companies and organizations that have applied for more than 500 patents since 2000 and have more than 100 inventions registered as patents in the past five years (in this selection, 2019-2023 for this selection) are extracted. They are then evaluated based on the ratio and scale of international inventions (ideas that have been patented in multiple countries and regions).
- Second stage: Each invention is scored on four factors such as "influence", "success rate”, "geographical investment" and "rarity", and evaluated by comparing it with all other patent ideas.
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