■ R&D is a Key to Success

R&D is a key to success for your business no matter what kinds of technology you embed on your products or services.

You must have a customer need first, then you have to find solutions to meet the need. The need in your manufacturing process as well as research process is also considered important to find solutions for encourage your competitiveness. Then the question is how to find. Only an effort on R&D will lead you to the solution.

Highly scientific research is often required in order to reach the solution. How do you conduct a research required even though you hardly have an experience on a sophisticated research? The rational way to pass through the processes is to find cooperative organizations such as a company, university and a public research institute.

■ Your Partner on Scientific Research

Your potential coordinator will be anywhere in Japan as well as in your own country. So why don’t you move your eyes also on Japan. There is massive amount of resources on research ahead of you. Most especially there are so many public research institutes. Recently the government has had the public research institute spot their priority in cooperating with the private sector.

A public research institute is established and operated under the central or local governments, and funded by tax payer’s money. Therefore, the institute is strongly expected to contribute to tax payers in Japan. Under this circumstance, it is not so easy for a foreign located company to establish a cooperative relationship with these institutes.

But it will be worth trying to establish the relationship. Since there is a certain possibility on it, we willingly support your effort to establish a cooperative relationship with these institutes as well as with universities and industries in Japan.