Kajima, one of the largest and longest-standing construction companies in Japan, has aged like a fine wine with management continuing to push the innovative boundaries of its legacy construction operations.
Yuji Doi & Dai Ohama, Kajima’s innovation and technology leads in the US, will be guiding a global discussion focused on the regional nuances of internal and external innovation in the built environment on Day 1 of BuiltWorlds’ Venture West Conference, which is less than 1 month away (and nearing capacity).
Here is what Yuji Doi had to say about this highly collaborative international Panel:
While leading the technology development by putting efforts into R&D initiatives, to better contribute to society and prosper the business and industry, companies are balancing out the activities into Open Innovation. Open Innovation is a platform to collaborate with external companies in a broader definition, to look into diverse opportunities to boost efforts. Merging the internal R&D activities with external innovation opportunities is critical and needs a defined structure to co-exist. In this panel, how and why the R&Ds are important, set the foundation, and enable to gain further acceleration for the overall innovation activities, having perspectives from different territories.
Kajima will be…