Patent Office and Ministry of Science and ICT Establish Private Sharing Platform for 'Public Patent Technologies'

A platform for sharing patented technologies developed through national research and development (R&D) projects with the private sector has been established.

On the 17th, the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) announced that it has completed the construction of a technology commercialization platform based on the National Science and Technology Information Service (NTIS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and ICT, and will open it to the private sector.

NTIS is a portal that provides information on national R&D projects, researchers, and outcomes.

The technology commercialization platform is the result of a project planned by KIPO and the Ministry of Science and ICT to activate the process of transferring excellent public technologies to the private sector for commercialization, completed after about a year of development.

This platform does not merely provide technology briefs (SMK).

By utilizing the national R&D information held by NTIS, it links data from the planning and execution stages of R&D projects, the researchers who carried out the projects, and research institutions to allow companies intending to adopt the technology to verify it from multiple perspectives.

In particular, the two agencies plan to apply the technology commercialization platform at the ‘2023 Pan-Government Public Technology Transfer and Commercialization Roadshow’ to be held at Yonsei University in September, introducing over 1,000 selected excellent public technologies chosen by nine ministries?including the Ministry of Science and ICT, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Ministry of SMEs and Startups, Defense Acquisition Program Administration, and KIPO?to the industry, thereby supporting active utilization of public research outcomes in the industrial sector.

Kang Yoon-seok, head of the Idea Economy Innovation Team at KIPO, said, “The platform construction is meaningful in that it enables the mutual linkage and utilization of patent data held by KIPO and national R&D project, researcher, and outcome data held by the Ministry of Science and ICT.” He added, “We hope the platform will contribute to technology commercialization by providing diverse information to technology demanders, thereby reducing the risks and burdens associated with adopting external technologies.”

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