Mitsui USA's New Business and Technology Development Center (TDC) serves as a business development unit with medium and long-term perspectives. TDC explores new business opportunities in emerging high technology industries, searching for innovative technologies and new business models that can be marketed globally. The unit utilizes its productive relations with potential clients/customers and matches them up with Mitsui's various operating groups worldwide to pursue optimum opportunities for achieving marketing and/or other objectives.

Supported by a broad knowledge of businesses, industries, and technologies, and Mitsui's vast resources, the TDC provides a more long term global strategic insight to given opportunities. The unit maintains worldwide relationships and networks with numerous forthcoming businesses and major universities in the U.S., where many new technologies and business ideas are incubated and prepared for introduction into the marketplace. It also has corresponding offices in Tokyo, London and Düsseldorf.

The TDC unit will continue to aggressively pursue the lead to potential business development in the future, focusing on enhancing research capabilities and ground breaking technology and business models; introducing new knowledge from technology and industry-specific specialists; and utilizing its professional expertise to combine technologies and marketing capabilities. TDC provides a wealth of opportunity to clients and business partners. Major accomplishments in the past where TDC has served as the gateway for new business developments include areas in biotechnology, IT, the environment and energy as well as healthcare, retail and business outsourcing service. The unit seeks prospects in a wide variety of emerging fields.