Gyeongnam National University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation Selected for 'This Year's Si/Gun/Gu Local Industry Promotion Project'

The Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation of Gyeongnam National University was recently selected for the ‘2023 Si/Gun/Gu Local Industry Promotion Project’ led by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups and managed by the Korea Technology and Information Promotion Agency for SMEs.

The ‘Si/Gun/Gu Local Industry Promotion Project’ supports the commercialization of local resources, regional specialized development zone enterprises, and clusters of small and medium-sized enterprises (agricultural and industrial complexes, individual sites) in basic local governments classified as population decline areas. The project aims to respond to regional extinction and revitalize the economy in these population-declining areas.

Gyeongnam National University. [Image provided by Gyeongnam National University]

Here, Gyeongnam National University, together with the Economic Enterprise Division of Haman County, is promoting ‘future food sources, reasons for companies to exist, and reasons for companies to come’ by driving the digital transformation and securing core technologies of the future automobile parts manufacturing industry in Haman County, strengthening manufacturing industries and corporate competitiveness, and revitalizing the local economy. The project period is two years, with a total budget of approximately 1.4 billion KRW.

Through this project, ‘future automobile parts manufacturing companies’ located in the agricultural and industrial complex of Haman County will receive more efficient corporate support programs such as ‘environmental friendliness, digitalization, and smartization.’

As a result, future automobile parts manufacturing companies will be able to produce excellent product groups with technological capabilities that emphasize originality and uniqueness, realize continuous value creation such as increased sales through expanded market channels and enhanced global competitiveness, and job creation.

Specifically, the project includes ▲expansion of industry conversion to future automobile parts manufacturing ▲strengthening consulting for eco-friendly electric vehicle parts development ▲support for prototype production of eco-friendly electric vehicle parts and securing core technologies ▲digital transformation of material management and production management at automobile parts production sites ▲increasing sales through design improvement and product upgrading of core future automobile parts.

Han Sang-bo, Vice Director of Industry-Academic Cooperation and the overall project leader, said, “As a regional innovation institution, Gyeongnam National University is striving through various projects such as LINC3.0, HRD, and RIS to grow and develop together with the region. Through the operation of this project with Haman County, which is close to the university, we will contribute even more to the development of the local community.”

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