Headquartered on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, CA, Ricoh Innovations, Inc. (RII) is a subsidiary of Ricoh Company, Ltd., the leading provider of digital office solutions. RII was founded in 1997 with the challenge of creating new technology and business opportunities for the worldwide Ricoh group. It grew out of the California Research Center (CRC), which was founded in Silicon Valley in 1989.

RIPL (Ricoh Innovations Private Limited), Ricoh Innovations' R&D subsidiary in Bangalore, India, was established in 2012 to extend the operation of RII and address opportunities in India and similar emerging countries.

Ricoh Innovations is home to world-class technologists with a broad set of competencies in areas such as intelligent sensors, computational optics, mobile visual communication and cloud-based collaboration. Rounding out the team are experienced ethnographers with deep insights into user and customer experience, and creative designers with a fundamental understanding of user interfaces and industrial design.

Ricoh Innovation excels through a multi-disciplinary approach that emphasizes close collaboration between technologists, engineers, ethnographers and designers. All work together to realize The Infinite Network – RII’s vision of a seamlessly connected world of people, objects and information.

RII’s parent company, Ricoh Company, Ltd., is a 75-year-old leading provider of advanced office technology and innovative document imaging products, services and software, with fiscal year 2010 sales in excess of $23 billion. With more than 100,000 employees worldwide, Ricoh is also one of the world’s leading environmentalist companies, committed to sustainable business everywhere.