SCREEN chosen as a Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovator for 2023

SCREEN Holdings Co., Ltd. has been selected as one of the Top 100 Global Innovators for 2023 by analytics company Clarivate. For the second year running, Clarivate recognized SCREEN as one of the world’s most innovative companies and institutions, based on an analysis of patent data.

Clarivate creates its list of the top 100 global innovators from patent data it possesses as one of the world’s leading information-services companies. To compile this list, it analyzes and evaluates trends in intellectual property (IP) for companies and institutions in every country and region.

There is a two-step approach to the evaluation process. In the first, Clarivate identifies entities that have filed at least 500 patent applications since 2000, and that also have at least 100 inventions for which they have successfully registered patents in the preceding five years.* In the second step, Clarivate assesses each of these inventions and assigns scores based on four main factors: influence, success, globalization, and technical distinctiveness.

SCREEN has continuously sought to create and develop new products and businesses based on three core areas of technology it has fostered over many decades. These are surface processing, direct imaging, and image processing. It is also currently devising an IP strategy, including an IP portfolio strategy, that incorporates a composite analysis of both in-house and external IP information.

The IP strategy will join the company’s existing management, business, and technology strategies. SCREEN expects the new approach will enhance its ability to build a business portfolio that reflects market trends in various areas, and from diverse perspectives. The strategy is part of SCREEN’s efforts to strengthen its IP capabilities by pursuing IP initiatives closely linked to each of its business, and research and development fields.

Going forward, SCREEN intends to continue working as a ‘solution creator’ that can generate new value for society. It is fully committed to undertaking research and development designed to resolve a range of issues faced by society, and to further strengthening its IP initiatives intended to support these activities. The company’s core goal remains, as always, to contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.

* The 2022 awards cover the period 2017-2021.

For more information, please see the Clarivate Website: https://clarivate.com/top-100-innovators/