Epson ranked fifth in Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators

Epson Australia HQ in Macquarie Park

Epson has been ranked fifth in the list of Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 announced by the global information services firm Clarivate Plc. This represents the 11th time that Epson has been named to the list since its inception in 2012.

Comments Toshihiko Kobayashi, General Administrative Manager of the Intellectual Property Division, "It's an honour to be selected as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators. In 2022, on the occasion of Epson's 80th anniversary, we established our corporate purpose statement, which reads "Our philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world," and have demonstrated this aspiration both inside and outside Epson."

Toshihiko Kobayashi continued, "Based on our corporate purpose, we are evolving our approach to sustainability management, and aim to solve societal issues while achieving corporate growth. Intellectual property is one of the pillars of this sustainable management. Our proprietary technologies are protected by our intellectual property rights and support the foundation for our sustained efforts to address societal issues. The top priority of our IP activities is and will continue to be, finding ways to use Epson's strengths to help solve issues."

Clarivate compares and analyses invention data from around the world, assesses the quality of patent ideas using indicators directly linked to innovativeness, and annually selects companies and organisations that are at the top of the global innovation ecosystem and continuously demonstrate outstanding innovation performance.

A twin track approach is used in evaluations. The first track focuses on identifying innovating companies and organisations based on the number of patent applications filed and patents held. An "international factor" is then calculated based on the rate and scale of international inventions. The second track scores them on four factors-influence, success, geographic investment, and rarity-and a comparison against all other patent ideas is made.

For more details about Epson's sustainability management go to: https://corporate.epson/en/sustainability/initiatives/

For more details about Epson's intellectual property go to: https://corporate.epson/en/technology/intellectual-property/

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Epson Australia's Macquarie Park HQ
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About Epson, Epson Australia and Epson New Zealand
Epson is a global technology leader whose philosophy of efficient, compact and precise innovation enriches lives and helps create a better world. The company is focused on solving societal issues through innovations in home and office printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visual and lifestyle. Epson's goal is to become carbon negative and eliminate use of exhaustible underground resources such as oil and metal by 2050.
Led by the Japan-based Seiko Epson Corporation, the worldwide Epson Group generates annual sales of more than JPY 1 trillion.
https://corporate.epson/en/https://corporate.epson/en 

Epson Australia offers an extensive array of award-winning image capture and image output products for the commercial, industrial, consumer, business, photography and graphic arts markets, and is also a leading supplier of value-added point-of-sale (POS) solutions for the retail market. Epson is the market leader in Australia and worldwide in sales of projectors for the home, office and education. Established in 1983 Epson Australia and now in its 40th year of operation, its headquartered in Macquarie Park, NSW and is a subsidiary of the Epson Group headquartered in Japan.
www.epson.com.au 

Epson New Zealand offers an extensive array of award-winning image capture and image output products for the commercial, industrial, consumer, business, photography and graphic arts markets, and is also a leading supplier of value-added point-of-sale (POS) solutions for the retail market. Epson is a market leader in New Zealand, Australia and worldwide in sales of projectors for the home, office and education. Epson New Zealand is headquartered in Auckland and is a branch of Epson Australia Pty Limited, a subsidiary of the Epson Group headquartered in Japan.
www.epson.co.nz