As the trend towards globalization progresses, politics, the economy, and society are changing radically. The major theme of the future is how to overcome issues and how to build the future while responding to the wave of changes. With nations, companies, and individuals each in the midst of facing their own challenges, what is being sought is a vantage point that confers certitude about the future, plans for solutions, and more than anything, the ability to bring about change. Hitachi Research Institute is the think tank of the Hitachi Group, with its extensive technological capabilities and knowledge base. As such, we would like to be an organization that contributes to the creation and the proposal - as well as the actualization - of valuable changes.

To make dreams into reality. This is our raison d'être as an "innovation creator" and the path that we have consistently chosen. Social conditions are in flux. A paradigm shift is occurring. Because this is an age in which the future is indecipherable, our powers as innovation creators are clearly of instrumental value.

Takashi Hatchoji,
President,
Hitachi Research Institute