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Welcome to the new Open Innovation Hub

At Fujifilm, we are continuously innovating and creating new technologies, products and services that inspire and excite people everywhere. Our goal is to empower the potential and expand the horizons of tomorrow’s businesses and lifestyles.

The Open Innovation Hub, opened in July 2022 at Fujifilm Europe’s headquarters in Ratingen, Germany, is a place where different stakeholders, like customers, prospects, universities, creators and opinion makers can interact with Fujifilm to co-create new value by combining state-of-the-art core technologies developed by Fujifilm that are based on its expertise on photosensitive materials and ongoing projects with your needs and ideas. Visitors get acquainted with Fujifilm’s history, business transformation and diversification and learn more about our core technologies that is used in a broad area of applications.

Under the CSR Plan “Sustainable Value Plan 2030 (SVP2030),” the Fujifilm Group aims to contribute globally to solving social issues through its business activities. The Open Innovation Hub is an open innovation base that aims to solve social issues and to “co-create new values,” while experiencing related technologies and visions under the four themes of Environment, Health, Daily Life and Work Style, which are positioned as priority areas in SVP2030. 

We utilize “open innovation” methods to boost our innovation activities. We co-create new solutions with partners, and are looking for opportunities to acquire technologies and businesses with our investment, either through M&A or small investments in start-ups. To foster these open innovation approaches, we provide our visitors with facilities for inspiration, discussions and brainstorming.

Get a preview of the #OIHexperience

The Open Innovation Hub is currently active globally with three collaborating bases: Tokyo (Japan), Silicon Valley (US), and Ratingen (Germany). While the underlying concept of each hub is the same, the exhibitions and activities are geared for each market environment and the specific character of each region.

Have we sparked your interest in visiting the Open Innovation Hub? Then you have the chance to book your visit via this website: www.fujifilminnovation.eu 

We are looking forward to welcoming you at the Open Innovation Hub! 

How Fujifilm’s Innovation Has Made It Prime for the 21st Century

Once best known as a leading maker of photographic film, Fujifilm has reinvented itself through innovation and diversification into new business areas.
“How Fujifilm’s Innovation Has Made It Prime for the 21st Century” is an interview with Teiichi Goto, President of FUJIFILM Holdings, who talks about Fujifilm’s innovation, leadership, and other features.

“We utilized our expertise in the photographic industry to build a new base for the business, allowing our extensive portfolio to become highly rational and technologically in sync. Under the slogan of “a second foundation”, we implemented a series of reforms which allowed us to not only survive, but thrive as a first-rate enterprise.”

Teiichi Goto, CEO, Fujifilm Holdings

Since its founding in 1934, as a maker of photographic film, Fujifilm’s story has been one of technological excellence and diversification in keeping with changing times. Foreseeing the advancement of digitization in the marketplace, it boldly embarked upon the challenge of developing digital imaging cameras and other key technologies in the digital era.

With demand for photographic film declining sharply since 2000, Fujifilm leveraged its expertise to push growth in healthcare, materials, and business innovation.

This revenue composition ratio is provisional numbers for FY2020 after changing in segment from FY2021.

Fujifilm’s corporate slogan, “Value from Innovation”, reflects its commitment to creating innovative technologies, products, and services to provide new value to the world by taking on challenges and growing together with the spirit of “NEVER STOP”.

The two phrases “express our corporate stance, our DNA, and represent our strong will to continue to improve and make society, the world, and the future better,” says Goto.

Teiichi Goto puts emphasis on “trust” and “integrity”, which he describes as “the most important values underlying the corporate culture of the Fujifilm”. This has set the foundation for the company, and it will continue to grow its business through implementing new initiatives with an eye on the future.


Read here the full article: The Pursuit of Innovation | Fujifilm which has been produced in partnership with CNN International Commercial and FUJIFILM Global.

Boosting Quality, While Saving Money and Time

Innovation in the world of printing businesses – Verhoef, a leader in the Dutch printing sector, invested in the Acuity B1 in early 2019 after already owning an Onset X1. Find out in our blog post how the acquisition of an Acuity B1 helped to push quality, delivery speed and cost-efficiency to even higher levels than before in order to stay on top of the market – together with Fujifilm.

Fujifilm’s History – Nearly a Century of Innovation

Fujifilm has become a household name. It is a publicly traded company and a leader in digital cameras and accessories. That level of success does not come instantly or easily, though. More than eight decades of history have contributed to building the film behemoth Fujifilm is today.

 

When you get a sense of Fujifilm’s history, then you can even better appreciate how legacy influences the characteristics of Fujifilm products today.

 

An innovative company enters the photography industry.

In the early 1930s, the Japanese government set out a plan to create a local industry for photographic film. That mandate led to the Fuji Photo Film Company’s formation in 1934. Its first factory, Ashigara, sat at the foot of Mount Hakone, but because the “Hakone” title was registered to another company, the film business took the name of a nearby mountain, Fuji.

As Fuji grew, it produced photographic, motion picture and X-Ray films. By 1948, it manufactured its first camera, the Fujica Six, which was known for its compact body and being lightweight. The camera became popular, and Fuji launched a series of Fujica still-photo and motion picture cameras and continued production of that line well into the 1980s.

 

Fujifilm goes digital with the DS-1P.

In 1988, at a photography trade show in Germany, Fujifilm forever changed the industry by unveiling a new toy, the FUJIX DS-1P, the world’s first digital camera. There had been electronic cameras before, but those cameras had stored images in an analog way. The DS-1P did so digitally with its semiconductor memory card. That first model retained only five to 10 images on its card, but Fujifilm further developed its digital technology and, in 1989, released an improved successor, the DS-X, for commercial purchase.

 

The FinePix X100 brings Fujifilm to pros.

Fujifilm continued to build digital cameras—most were designed with the casual user in mind. But in 2010, Fujifilm had something new for the pros when it released the FinePix X100. This camera fused worlds old and new with its APS-C sensor and contemporary viewfinder stashed in a vintage body.

 

Instant success leads to a series.

The X100 was so high in demand that it sold on secondary markets for double its retail price. So the following year, Fujifilm launched an entire series of high-end cameras like the X100. The next in the series, the X10, was released later that year and boasted a larger sensor and an EXR color filter, and the X-S1, the first in a series of interchangeable lenses, came soon after.

 

As the X Series continues today, its products are united not by a particular feature, but by the company’s commitment to create advanced controls for serious photographers.

 

The series is just another way Fujifilm continues its company-wide legacy of advancing technology and anticipating user needs.

 

Innovation in display of images: From medical diagnostics to color management

Fujifilm’s skill with images extends to 3D medical diagnostic imaging and to color management. SYNAPSE 3D is an image analysis system that helps physicians detect anomalies earlier and make diagnoses faster. It uses Fujifilm’s Image Intelligence technology to enhance the information value of images. On the color management side, the IS-100 and IS-mini perform color adjustments for motion pictures and videos, from shoot to mastering, with a single, consistent system.
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