← Innovation & International Collaboration Division

Innovation Hub & Open R&D Center

Fosters breakthrough innovations in geoscience technologies through interdisciplinary collaboration and rapid prototyping, running design-thinking workshops, ideation sprints, and proof-of-concept development in dedicated makerspace facilities.

Technology Transfer & Commercialization Center Innovation Hub & Open R&D Center Startup Incubation & Entrepreneurship Center International Partnership & Cooperation Center Horizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Center

Research Fields 16

✏️ Design Thinking & Human-Centered Design

Design thinking is a structured innovation methodology that develops products and services…

💡 Brainstorming & Structured Ideation

Brainstorming, introduced by advertising executive Alex Osborn in Applied Imagination (195…

🔧 Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ)

TRIZ — the Russian acronym for the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving — is a systematic i…

🧠 Creativity & Divergent Thinking Psychology

The psychology of creativity studies the mental abilities, dispositions, and environments …

🏭 Lean Production & Lean Innovation Origins

Lean production is the manufacturing and product-development philosophy developed at Toyot…

✈️ Skunk Works & Rapid Prototyping Culture

The Skunk Works model, named after the Lockheed Advanced Development Projects unit that Cl…

🧪 Industrial Research Laboratory Model

The industrial research laboratory is the institutional innovation of organising research …

📉 Innovation Diffusion & Adoption Forecasting

Adoption forecasting uses parametric diffusion models to project how many customers will a…

🛠️ Maker Culture, DIY Fabrication & Design Science

Design science, as founded by R. Buckminster Fuller, is the proposition that humanity's pr…

🪑 User-Centered Design & Human Factors Engineering

Human factors engineering is the discipline of designing machines, products, and environme…

⚙️ Systems Engineering for Complex Innovation

Systems engineering is the interdisciplinary methodology for developing complex systems — …

🏠 Quality Function Deployment & Voice of Customer

Quality function deployment (QFD), developed in Japan from 1966 by Yoji Akao with Shigeru …

🔁 Total Quality Management & Kaizen/Continuous Improvement

Total quality management is the doctrine that quality is produced by the whole organisatio…

💰 Value Analysis / Value Engineering

Value analysis, created by Lawrence D. Miles at General Electric in the 1940s (formalised …

🧮 Operations Research & the Systems Approach to Innovation

Operations research (OR) is the discipline of applying mathematical models — optimisation,…

🪞 Organizational Learning & Reflective Practice

Organizational learning theory studies how organisations, and the professionals inside the…