Innovation wins
As a leading business and technology services company, NTT DATA has a long and rich legacy of innovation. Our experience covers closed, R&D-related efforts as well as open innovation in collaboration with startups, academic institutions, and strategic technology and accelerator partners. Using the full complement of our global resources, offerings, capabilities and assets, we enable innovation and growth in our own business and for our clients.
Global innovation focus areas
To create value for our clients, our business and society, we focus on global, strategic innovation investments, those that are relevant across all of our markets, in three areas: Global Technologies, Global Industries, and Global Sustainability.
Our innovation ecosystem
Working with our broad ecosystem of strategic technology partners, venture partners, startups, academic partners and innovation accelerators is key to advancing our global innovation efforts.
Our Global Innovation Centers provide an extensive network of regional studios and innovation labs that enable local and global collaboration to identify advanced technologies and experiment with their capabilities. Our technology experts and engineers incubate strategic innovations and collaborate with clients to execute proofs of concept.

Research and development
NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3.6 billion in R&D every year. Together, our R&D efforts enable discoveries that help tackle intractable societal challenges and create new, innovative products and services.

Venture partners, external accelerators and academic partners
Our venture partners (including our own NTT Venture Capital, Docomo Ventures and independent VCs), startup accelerators and academic partners (including MIT and Stanford) offer valuable insights and provide leads for startups.

Next-generation strategic technology partners
Startups and strategic technology partners are essential to our innovation efforts. They complement and extend our portfolio and help us improve our time to market and grow our asset-based business.
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