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Recognized as one of the world’s 100 most innovative companies for the 10th time
OSAKA, Japan, March 13, 2025 - Daikin Industries, Ltd. announces its selection among the Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators 2025 as determined by Clarivate Plc, a global information service company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Since 2012, Clarivate has been analyzing patent data to identify the world’s top 100 innovative companies and research institutions and has honored these outstanding organizations with this award for the past 14 years. This prestigious recognition marks the tenth time Daikin has received this honor.
Leveraging its extensive proprietary patent data, Clarivate analyzes intellectual property trends and evaluates companies and research institutions worldwide for its prestigious list of Clarivate Top 100 Global Innovators. Eligible companies are chosen based on the criteria of the number of inventions published since 2000 and granted within the past five years. The top 100 organizations are selected according to their scores on metrics including Influence, Investment, Success, and Rarity.
As an HVAC&R manufacturer with global business operations, Daikin allows the use of some of its patents by other companies to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gases for the industry overall. For example, in 2011, Daikin granted emerging countries free access to 93 patents related to air conditioning equipment utilizing refrigerant HFC-32 (R32), a refrigerant with low global warming potential (GWP), and it expanded access worldwide to all countries in 2015. Moreover, in 2019, Daikin expanded the scope of patents and pledged the non-assertion of those patents to support conversion to refrigerants with high energy savings and low GWP. Furthermore, the technical and intellectual property departments at Daikin work closely together from the early stages of technological development to build a portfolio that protects the business. We believe that these efforts have led to high evaluations from external entities, such as the recognition received this time.
Daikin is working to strengthen R&D on a global scale to achieve the growth strategies in its strategic management plan “Fusion 25”: Challenge to Achieve Carbon Neutrality, Promotion of Solutions Business Connected with Customers, and Creation of Value with Air. In addition to the acquisition of intellectual property rights and prevention of infringement of other companies’ intellectual property rights, Daikin will continue to contribute to its business through the creation of intellectual properties through partnerships with the industry and academia, and establishing a network of other companies and researchers through the granting of free access to its patented technologies.
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