Ando Geol, Deputy Minister for Economic Affairs, "Discovering R&D Projects in Satellite Systems, Autonomous Vehicles, and Quantum Semiconductors"

[Sejong=Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyunjung] Ando-gul, Vice Minister of Strategy and Finance, announced that he will discover civilian-military research and development (R&D) collaboration projects focusing on satellite development, autonomous vehicles, and quantum-semiconductor fields.

On the morning of the 9th, Vice Minister Ando held a 'Daedeok Research Complex Government-Funded Research Institute Meeting' at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology in Daejeon, where he discussed the current status and achievements of government-funded research institutes and future key investment directions.

He stated, "Each government-funded research institute should establish a role and responsibility (R&R) strategy to redefine new visions and roles according to changing conditions, and government R&D funding should be strategically adjusted to focus research capabilities on specialized fields with relative strengths." He added, "We will actively support convergence research beyond fields and areas among government-funded research institutes and especially select civilian-military R&D cooperation as the top priority collaboration project area."

He continued, "We have set the goal of fostering government-funded research institutes as R&D innovation hubs that ignite regional innovation, and will support the four major science and technology institutes and 59 government-funded research institute regional organizations nationwide to play leading roles." He emphasized, "In regional specialized industry sectors, government-funded research institutes will collaborate with promising startups and small and medium-sized enterprises to develop competitive promising new technologies and actively support industry-academia cooperation activities to commercialize them."

Furthermore, regarding the development direction of government-funded research institutes in the science and technology field, he presented three tasks: ▲ Establishing the Daedeok Research and Development Special Zone as an R&D innovation big bang hub ▲ Leading the second scientific patriotism renaissance through mutual convergence research ▲ Building a regional innovation base that serves as the cornerstone for future balanced national land development.

Vice Minister Ando emphasized, "Since the Daedeok Research Complex possesses world-class research potential, we must fuse dispersed research resources to achieve a big bang of innovative research outcomes."

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