'Disaster, Safety, Hydrogen Vehicles'... 'Core Technologies' Small Businesses Should Focus on in 2021

TIPA Selects 296 Strategic Products in 39 Core Technology Fields for 2021

Strategic products to watch derived from core technologies in the disaster/safety sector. [Source=TIPA]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Jong-hwa] "Big Data, Blockchain, 5G+, Artificial Intelligence, Service Platforms, Immersive Content, Drones, Intelligent Robots, Smart Manufacturing, Autonomous Vehicles, Disaster & Safety, Internet of Things (IoT), Medical Devices, Electric & Hydrogen Vehicles"

The Small and Medium Business Technology Information Promotion Agency (Director Lee Jae-hong, TIPA) announced these as the key technologies that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) should focus on this year on the 4th. TIPA establishes and announces the 'SME Strategic Technology Roadmap' annually to strengthen the technological capabilities of SMEs, which face less favorable R&D conditions compared to large corporations.

The SME Strategic Technology Roadmap is significant in that it selects and publicly announces future promising technology fields and strategic products to help SMEs discover new industries of the future and develop insights that connect to new business opportunities.

Unlike other ministries' technology roadmaps, it focuses on establishing a commercialization technology roadmap tailored to SMEs, centered on the short term (3-year cycles), considering the government's SME promotion policies and the future growth direction of technology, making it immediately usable.

The newly announced technology roadmap has newly discovered and disclosed 39 major fields and 296 strategic products that will promote SMEs' technological development (R&D) capabilities over the next three years from 2021 to 2023.

Through the SME Strategic Technology Roadmap, TIPA plans to intensively foster strategic products in the △4th Industrial Revolution field, △SME growth sectors, and △materials, parts, and equipment sectors as designated items linked to R&D project calls this year. Detailed information can be found in the project announcements on the SME Technology Development Project Integrated Management System (www.smtech.go.kr).

Lee Jae-hong, Director of TIPA, said, "The SME Strategic Technology Roadmap will serve as a strategic compass for small and medium venture enterprises preparing for the post-COVID era to create new businesses," and added, "We will actively support SMEs to carry out R&D in the right direction."

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